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Wells College Science Colloquium
Spring 2007

Science Colloquium meets on Friday from 12:40 to 1:30 in Zabriskie 102. All are welcome to attend. For further information, please contact Professor Niamh O'Leary or Professor Carol Shilepsky

DATE SPEAKER/EVENT
Friday, February 2 Internship Poster Session in the Dining Hall, 12-2pm (sponsor: Professor Schnurr)
Friday, February 9 Daina Taimina, Visiting Associate Professor, Cornell University, Mysteries of hyperbolic plane (Host: Professor Sievers)
Friday, February 16 Professor Charles Van Loan, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, If Copernicus Had a Computer (Host: Professor Heinekamp)
Friday, February 23 Dr. Jeanne Kagle, Assistant Professor of Biology, Mansfield University The Effects of Acid Mine Drainage on Bacterial Populations (Host: Professor O' Leary )
Friday, March 2 Activism Day
Friday, March 9 Professor Kameshwar Wali, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, BOSE & EINSTEIN: Discovery of Bose-Einstein Statistics (Host: Professor Heinekamp)
Friday, March 16, 24 Spring Break, no colloquium.
Friday, March 30 Cassie Newkirk (BCS) The Tunablity of Wavelengths in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Caused by the Addition of Conjugated Chains to Perylene;
Nicole McGuire (BCS) Teaching Darwinian Evolution in New York State's Living Environment
Friday, April 6 Valerie Schallehn (BCS) Effect of Land Use on Antibiotic Resistance among Enterococci in Oso Creek/ Oso Bay in Southern Texas ;
Krystle Bouchard (ENVR) The Influence of Nitrogen on Deer Browsing Preferences
Friday, April 13 Anna Radlowski (MPS) Early Primes
Friday, April 20 Heidi Webb (ENVR) Avian Community Structure on the Wells College Campus;
Stephanie Nye (BCS) The Influence of Low Frequency Vibration on Tactile Discrimination
Friday, April 27 Ashley Tinklepaugh (BCS) The Effect of Constant Light on Motility Rhythms in Chick Embryos;
Kanako Shiogaki (BCS) Motility Responses by Chick Embryos to Long vs. Short Wavelengths of Light
Wednesday, May 2
Zahra Taha (MPS) Simulating McQuay SelectTools™ for Applied PTAC using VB.NET and ACCESS Database
Friday, May 4 Stacey Canino (MPS);
Shea Hagstrom (MPS) Simulation of a Multidirectional Digital Imaging Sensor
Wednesday, May 9 Ayaka Harada (MPS) Determinants of Life Expectancy in the U.S.: Do Economically Wealthier People Live Longer?;
Jessica Waffle (BCS) Preventing Racemization of Thalidomide Within the Body

Information for presenters.

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