Bryn Mawr College

Center for Science In Society

Events Calendar - Spring, 2001

To facilitate the broad conversations, involving both scientists and non-scientists, which are essential to continuing explorations of
  • the natural world and humanity's place in it,
  • the nature of education,
  • the generation, synthesis, and evaluation of information,
  • technology and its potentials,
  • the relationships between forms of understanding.

Events marked in yellow are sponsored/cosponsored by the Center for Science In Society. These will, in general, be preceded by open forums for students/faculty/staff at times/places to be posted here prior to the events. Additional events in February and March will be scheduled in relation to ongoing searches for postdoctoral research/teaching fellowships in science and in history of science. For details about particular events, contact the individuals named in the right column. Contact Paul Grobstein for general information about Center activites and to have relevant events posted in this calendar.

Tuesday, 6 February
3 pm
Park 328
Scott Patterson
Glaxo Smith Kline
Statistical Work Experiences in a Major Pharmaceutical Company co-sponsored with Mathematics (Victor Donnay)
Tuesday, 6 February
7 pm
Park 328
Catherine Steiner Adair
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
Throw Your Weight Around: The Challenge of Preventing Eating Disorder Body Image Council (Molly Ahrens)

Harvard Eating Disorder Center

Creating a Curriculum to Help Girls Battle Eating Disorders

Monday, 5 March
4:15 pm
Thomas 224

Reception following:
Thomas, London Room

Faculty discussion
Friday, March 2, noon, Campus Center Room 210

Amber Hallibaugh
Lesbian AIDS Project, New York
My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home co-sponsored with Feminist and Gender Studies (Jane Caplan)
in a series on Human Diversity: Sex and Gender

Liberalism and the Left: An Activist's Perspective

Lesbian Health Research: Does It Really Matter?

Heart of the Matter

Tuesday, 6 March
6 pm
Sci Bldg Room 234
Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Thursday, 8 March
7 pm
Thomas 102
Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Tuesday, March 20
4:30 pm
Park 338

Tea
4 pm
Park 355

Marco Lenci
SUNY at Stony Brook
Infinite Step BilliardsKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Mathematics (Victor Donnay)

Friday, March 23
4:15 pm
Park 180 (Berliner Lecture Room)
Molly McGuire
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Environmental Science at the Interdisciplinary Crossroads: The Biochemistry of Acid Mine DrainageKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Chemistry (Ed Wovchko)

Wednesday, 28 March
7:30 pm
Thomas 224

Thursday, 29 March
8 am
Breakfast Discussion
Wyndham

Richard Burian
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
What is the State of the Art in Science Studies?co-sponsored with Philosophy (Micheal Krausz)

Ontological Progress in Science

Against Generality: Meaning and Reference in Genetics and Philosophy

Thursday, 29 March
4 pm
Park 229
Kendra Lawrence
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Role of spiders and other generalist arthropod predators in the forest floor leaf-litter food webKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Biology (Ann Herzig)

Friday, March 30
4:15 pm
Park 180 (Berliner Lecture Room)
Samantha Glazier
Cornell University
Tracking Energy Conversion in Five Generations of DendrimersKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Chemistry (Sharon Burgmayer)

Monday, 2 April
4:30
Park 338
Amy Crumpton
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Advocating a Science of Human Survival: Barry Commoner, Margaret Mead, and the AAAS Committee on the Promotion of Human WelfareMellon Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)

Tuesday, 3 April
4:30 pm
Park 338
Jarita Holbrook
University of California, Los Angeles
The Ideal Mariner and the Blind Fisherman: A Transmission Theory for Celestial NavigationMellon Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)

Tuesday, 3 April
6 pm
Sci Bldg Room 234
Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Thursday, 5 April
4 pm
Park 229
Mark Lechner
University of Pennsylvania
Targeting the HP1 Family of Heterochromatin Regulators and Epigenetic SilencersKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Biology (Tamara Davis)

Thursday, 5 April
7:30 pm
Park 243

noon, Wyndham
lunch with students
wsaunder@brynmawr.edu

2 pm, Park 227
Discussion: Teaching Evolution

Kevin Padian
University of California, Berkeley
Insights into the Dinosaur World: New Ideas on How Dinosaurs Lived and DiedSigma Xi (Bruce Saunders)

National Center for Science Education: Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools

Monday, 9 April
4:30 pm
Park 338
Tomomi Kinukawa
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Maria Sibylla Merian (1667-1717) and Natural History Collecting in Northern EuropeMellon Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)

Tuesday, 10 April
5 pm
Carpenter 21

Discussion on science writing
3:45 pm
Campus Center 210
All interested students/faculty welcome

Gina Kolata
New York Times
Finding An Interesting Story Among the Mundane: A Journalist's View of Reporting on Science and MedicineRothenberg Lecture (Peter Brodfuehrer)
Monday, 16 April
4:15 pm
Thomas 110

Reception following

Jennifer Terry
Ohio State University
What Should Women Want?
Sexual Rights and Tropes of Hygiene In an Era of Global Capitalism
co-sponsored with Feminist and Gender Studies (Anne Dalke)
in a series on Human Diversity: Sex and Gender

An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society

Wednesday, 18 April
1 pm
Thomas 224
Paul Grobstein
Bryn Mawr College
The Brain's Images: Reflecting and Creating Human Understandingco-sponsored with Center for Visual Culture
Sunday, 22 April
4 pm
Goodheart Music Room
Wiliam Rathje
Stanford University
Garbology: The Archeology of Usco-sponsored with Anthropology and the Green Committee
Wednesday, 25 April
1 pm
Thomas 224
Ralph Kuncl
Johns Hopkins University
Icons of Visual Culture in Medicineco-sponsored with Center for Visual Culture
Friday, 27 April
4 pm
Thomas Great Hall
Paul Ehrlich
Stanford University
Human Natures co-sponsored with Biology and the Environmental Studies Program

Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb

The Tangled Skeins of Nature and Nurture in Human Evolution

Thursday, 3 May
7 pm
Thomas 102
Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Wednesday, 16 May
4 pm
Park 180
Xenia Morin
Wilmington, Delaware
Making Sense of Mutations: Understanding Disease Severity in Cystic FibrosisKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Chemistry (Susan White)

Thursday, 24 May
2 pm
Park 180
Colleen Regan
Stanford University
TBAKeck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program

co-sponsored with Chemistry (Frank Mallory)

Thursday, 7 June
noon
PSB 339
Graduate Student Journal ClubDiscussion of:
Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects
and
future organization
co-sponsored with science departments (Susan White)