On the 2nd Floor of the Carlson Science and Engineering Library on the UofR Campus is a discussion titled What's in a Name? The Quirky Stories Behind Scientific Nomenclature.

Names have power and meaning, and many scientific names have surprising stories behind their origin. Four scientists: an Evolutionary Ecologist (John Jaenike), a Molecular Biologist (Elaine Sia), an Astronomer (Judith Pipher) and a Chemist (Lauren Vangelder), will share the history of scientific nomenclature in their disciplines and discuss our constant struggle to organize, classify and name everything in the universe.

[source: University of Rochester events calendar, 2018-Nov-6]