Catherine Smith, Paleoanthropologist, Past President of CFUW-Ottawa
Topic: Much Depends Upon Dinner: How Diet Shaped Our Evolutionary History
Our October 6th speaker is Catherine Smith, a paleoanthropologist whose research specializes on the evolution of human diet. Catherine holds degrees in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology from Trent, George Washington, and Harvard Universities. Her research has taken her from the lab to the museum and field, and from the Canadian arctic to the African equator and the Cape of Good Hope. She has studied several key dietary transitions in our evolutionary past including the origins of agriculture, the advent of cooking, the role of meat eating in shaping our bodies and brains, and how our earliest ancestors coped with climate change as Africa became drier millions of years ago. Her talk will focus on several of these key dietary adaptations and will also address present-day misconceptions, myths, and fads about how we “should” eat.
Many of you may know Catherine as the immediate Past Present of CFUW-Ottawa.
CFUW-OTTAWA LUNCH & GAMES FUNDRAISER
Supporting scholarships at Carleton University,
the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College
DATE: Monday, 20th of October, 2025
TIME: Check-in 11:00 AM. Lunch 11:45 AM
PLACE: THE ROYAL OTTAWA GOLF CLUB
1405 Aylmer Road, Gatineau
REGISTRATION OPENS ON SEPTEMBER 7th
COST: $80.00 - A tax receipt of $20.00 will be issued
Please join us for friendly conversation and a luncheon, followed by a fun afternoon of Games- Social Bridge, Mahjong , Board Games & A Trivia Game. If you can't stay for the Games, please consider coming for lunch.
Guests are welcome.
Dr. Myra J Hird, Full Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University
Topic: Microplastics
Myra Hird
Karen Squires & Stan Cook (tentatively, both speakers)
Topic: Sustainable, Responsible Tourism
Christine Rollo, CFUW Member
Topic: Mary River Hamilton, Canada’s forgotten War Artist
Dr. Ruth Slack
Director, University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI), Professor, Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Katey Rayner
Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Topic: Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI), Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa
