What's New / What's Happening at Wells College

Wells College Science Colloquium
Spring 2003

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
Wednesday, February 5 Internship Poster Session in the Dining Hall, 12-2pm. Posters will stay on display through Friday February 7th.
Friday, February 7 Jean Siracusa '90, Director of the The Sterling Nature Center, Sterling, NY The McDonough Project – Sustainable Development
Friday, February 14 Dr. Susan Allen-Gil, Assistant Professor of Biology, Ithaca College Environmental Contamination in the Arctic
Friday, February 21 Vincent Coulehan, Senior Project Manager, Entergy Nuclear Northeast Overview of electrical power production in New York State: Comparing nuclear fuels to other sources, mainstream and alternative
Friday, February 28 Dr. Molly Jahn, Associate Professor of Plant Breeding, Cornell University (with Mark Henning, Matt Falise, Michael Gloss and Teri Ferrin) Who Controls Our Food? The Public Seed Initiative: A unique partnership for healthier food, healthier farming
Friday, March 7 Fernando Schwartz What Is Curvature?
Friday, March 14, 21 Spring Break, no colloquium.
Friday, March 28 Gwendolyn Bryson Nordlicht: A Study of the Aurora Borealis
Friday, April 4 Emilee Mazur Development of Abducens Nerve Relations with Lateral Rectus, Pyramidalis, and Quadratus Muscles in the Chick Embryo
Sarah Franke Iron Release From Ovotransferin By the First-Order-Only Chelator Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid (DTPA)
Friday, April 11 Tara Venezio Courtship and Mating behavior of Two Hybrid-Inbred Strains of Nasonia Wasps in Comparison With the Two Parent Strains
Wednesday, April 16 Kristin Puleo The Effects of Artificial Selection on Body Size of Nasonia longicornis
Katie Lysyczyn Speciation Effects of Wolbachia pipientis in Nasonia giraulti
Friday, April 18 Stephanie Buckland Analysis of Soil Moisture, pH, Electrical Conductivity, Penetration Resistance and Compaction of Soils Located on the S.H.A.R.E Farm, Union Springs, NY
Colleen Spercel The Effects of Pyrophosphate and pH on the Kinetics of Affinity-Labeled and Native Transferrin Proteins
Wednesday, April 23 Adrienne Loero Courtship and Mating Behavior of two Nasonia vitripennis/Nasonia giraulti Hybrids in Comparison to the Parent Species Danielle Shutter Influences of Light on the Production of Corneal Matrix in Chick Embryos
Friday, April 25 Karen McKeen Using Edge Information to Correct Corrupted Images
Katie Tuttle Businesss on the Go: Internet Access to a Database
Wednesday, April 30 Yuko Takagi Hormonal Effect on Optical Development of Chicks in Relation to Scleral Venous Sinus,
Melinda Ligammari An Investigation of Hormone Treatment in the Rescue of Constant LightEffects on Growing Chick Eyes
Friday, May 2 Gina Puzo Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Water Quality, and the River Contiuum Concept of Fall Creek, New York
Stephanie Roberts Interactions Between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Oenococcos oeni in Wine
Wednesday, May 7 Gabriel David,
Brenna Finnegan Performance in Mathematics and Music: Is there a Connection?
Friday, May 9 Katie Breeze Assisted speciation: Effects of the bacterium Wolbachia pipientis on speciation in Nasonia giraulti

Previous schedules:

Return to What's New/What's Happening Home Page

Return to Wells College Home Page

The content of this document is maintained by the Public Relations Office (pr@wells.edu). Comments and questions are most welcome. The webmaster@wells.edu welcomes comments on design and technical issues.