PAST PRESENTATIONS

 

Prof. Kenneth Gayley

"The Early Universe:  What Does it Mean and What do We Know"

Time:  Thursday, September 8, 2005   5:00 – 6:00 PM


'Articulating the Animal Group'

 Prof. Jane Desmond , Prof.  Teresa Mangum, Prof. Kim Marra, Prof.  Mary Trachsel,  Prof. Ed Wasserman, and Pamela Trimpe
 

"Anthropomorphism and Animals"

Time:  Thursday, October 20, 2005   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Sonya J. Franklin

"Building Designer Proteins That Battle Disease"

Time:  Thursday, November 10, 2005   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Vincent Rodgers

"So What is String Theory Anyway?"

Time:  Thursday, December 8, 2005   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 

Prof. Jeffrey Murray

"Genes For Everyone:  How they help and how they hurt."

Time:  Thursday, February 9, 2006  5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Erika Lawrence

"Why some marriages succeed and others fail."

Time:  Thursday,  9 March  2006   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Vicki Grassian

"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology:
When Size Really  Matters"

Time:  Thursday,  13 April  2006   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Tara C. Smith

Department of Epidemiology

"Avian Influenza:  What's The Big Deal?"

Time:  Thursday,  11 May  2006   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. Tonya Peeples

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

"Extremophiles:  Life In Extreme Environments"

Time:  Thursday,  14 Sept  2006   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 Prof. George Neumann

George Daly Research Professor of Economics
 and of Applied Mathematical & Computational Sciences
Tippie College of Business

"Markets and Medicine: Teaching Doctors to Use Probabilities"

Thursday,  12 Oct. 2006   5:00 – 6:00 PM


Dr. Lisa Segre

Department of Psychology

"Postpartum Depression: The Untold Story"

Thursday,  16 Nov. 2006 5:00-6:00 PM


Prof. Padmini Srinivasan

School of Library and Information Science
and
Henry B. Tippie College of Business

"Discovering Hidden Knowledge from the Web"

Thurday, 14 Dec. 2006 5:00-6:00 PM


Prof. John Logsdon
Department of Biological Sciences
 
"Sexy science: the evolutionary biology of sexual reproduction"

Thursday, 8 Feb. 2007 5:00-6:00 PM


Prof. Craig Kletzing

Department of Physics and Astronomy

"The Auroral Borealis: Nature's Light Show in the Sky"

Thursday,  8 Mar. 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM


Prof. Sarah England

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

"The Timing of Labor; a ScientistΉs
 Perspective"

Thursday,  12 April 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM
 


Prof. Linda Boyle

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Faculty Director
Human Factors and Statistical Modeling Lab

Thursday,  10 May 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM

 


Garry R. Buettner, Ph.D

Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program
Department of Radiation Oncology

"Hype vs. Hope with nutritional antioxidants: Vitamins C & E are now on TV"

Thursday,  13 September 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM
 


Professor Cornelia Lang

Department of Physics and Astronomy

"A Journey into the Center of the Galaxy"

Thursday,  8 November 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM


Professor Vincent Rodgers

Department of Physics and Astronomy

"The Physics of the Big Bang"

Thursday,  13 December 2007   5:00 – 6:00 PM


Department of Physics and Astronomy's Public Demonstration Show

Wednesday,  13 February 2008   6:30 – 7:30 PM
 


Professor Michael Anderson

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

“Glaucoma and genetics: Three tales of basic science contributing to new ideas of a complex disease”

Thursday,  13 March 2008   5:00 – 6:00 PM


Prof. Larissa Samuelson
Department of Psychology

 “How Are Children Able to Learn Vocabulary So Quickly?”

Thursday,  10 April 2008   5:30 – 6:00 PM
 


Prof. Greg Carmichael

Associate Dean
 College of Engineering and  Co-director of
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research

"The  ABC's of Climate Change"

Thursday,  18 September 2008   5:00 – 6:00 PM


 

 


 

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