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Lake Forest, Ill.-—University of Chicago Professor Martha McClintock will present "Scents and Sensibility: Pheromones, Social Dynamics, and the Control of Fertility and Disease" on Thursday, November 7 at 8 p.m. in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at Lake Forest College. The event is free and open to the public. McClintock will discuss her work on how social interactions and scent-based communication in humans and other animals affect reproductive cycles. Currently the David Lee Shillingslaw Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago; Dr. McClintock also serves as director of the recently-founded Institute for Mind and Biology at the University. She is well known for her discovery, as an undergraduate, that women living together synchronize their menstrual cycles. Her current work examines how hormones, scent-based communication and social behavior interact and affect the reproductive biology of mammals. The lecture is the Seventeenth Annual Distinguished Science Lectureship under the Ernest H. Volwiler Fund. The lectureship and the Ernest H. Volwiler Chair in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, held by Professor Edward Packel at the College, have been made possible through a gift from Dr. Volwiler. The late Dr. Volwiler was formerly the Chairman of the Board of Abbott Laboratories and a Trustee at Lake Forest College. Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel is located on the College’s Middle Campus near the intersection of Sheridan and College roads in Lake Forest. For more information please call 847-735-6010. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 44 states and 43 other countries.
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