Bryn Mawr CollegeCenter for Science In SocietyEvents Calendar - Spring, 2001 | To facilitate the broad conversations, involving both scientists and non-scientists, which are essential to continuing explorations of
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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) |
Monday, 5 March 4:15 pm Thomas 224 Reception following: Faculty discussion | 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 |
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 | Marco Lenci SUNY at Stony Brook | Infinite Step Billiards | Keck 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 Drainage | Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Ed Wovchko) |
Wednesday, 28 March 7:30 pm Thomas 224 Thursday, 29 March | 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 web | Keck 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 Dendrimers | Keck 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 Welfare | Mellon 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 Navigation | Mellon 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 Silencers | Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Biology (Tamara Davis) |
Thursday, 5 April 7:30 pm Park 243 noon, Wyndham
2 pm, Park 227 | Kevin Padian University of California, Berkeley | Insights into the Dinosaur World: New Ideas on How Dinosaurs Lived and Died | Sigma 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 Europe | Mellon Fellowship Program co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver) |
Tuesday, 10 April 5 pm Carpenter 21 Discussion on science writing | Gina Kolata New York Times | Finding An Interesting Story Among the Mundane: A Journalist's View of Reporting on Science and Medicine | Rothenberg 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 Understanding | co-sponsored with Center for Visual Culture |
Sunday, 22 April 4 pm Goodheart Music Room | Wiliam Rathje Stanford University | Garbology: The Archeology of Us | co-sponsored with Anthropology and the Green Committee |
Wednesday, 25 April 1 pm Thomas 224 | Ralph Kuncl Johns Hopkins University | Icons of Visual Culture in Medicine | co-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 |
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 Fibrosis | Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Susan White) |
Thursday, 24 May 2 pm Park 180 | Colleen Regan Stanford University | TBA | Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Frank Mallory) |
Thursday, 7 June noon PSB 339 | Graduate Student Journal Club | Discussion of: Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects and future organization | co-sponsored with science departments (Susan White) |