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Wells College Science Colloquium
Spring 2006

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

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DATE SPEAKER/EVENT
Friday, February 3 Internship Poster Session in the Dining Hall, 12-2pm (sponsor: Professor Schnurr)
Friday, February 10 Dr. Karen Harpp, Associate Professor of Geology, Colgate University Darwin’s Enchanted Islands: Recent Studies from the Galapagos Islands (Host: Professor O' Leary)
Friday, February 17 Shaffique Adam, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Physics, Cornell University Mesoscopic Transport in Ferromagnets (Host: Professor O' Leary)
Friday, February 24 Dr. Timothy Sontag, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago Mimicking HDL: The Potential of Small Mimetic Proteins to Reverse Heart Disease (Host: Professor Peone)
Friday, March 3 Steven Mulvaney, Food Science Cornell University, Some Thoughts on Why Wheat Gluten Shows Rubberlike Elasticity (Host: Professor C. Shilepsky)
Friday, March 10 Dr. Cole Gilbert, Associate Professor of Entomology, Cornell University "Blinding speed: Visually-guided Predation by Tiger Beetles" (Host: Professor Vawter)
Friday, March 17, 24 Spring Break, no colloquium.
Friday, March 31 Melanie Jones, Imaging Buried Monolayers at Atomic Resolution Using Electron Channelling.
Stephanie Jones, New Building Blocks for Colloid-Based Materials by Imprinting Peanut Shape.
Friday, April 7 No Colloquium
Friday, April 14 Jennifer Cole The Impact of Runoff and A Wastewater Treatment Facility on Fecal Contamination in Paines Creek, Aurora, NY.
Holly Bolton Creating a Functional Information System: Automation of Faculty Websites at Wells College.
Friday, April 21 Erica Letis, Non-Native Plant Species of Raquette Lake, NY: An Introduction to Invasive Plants and their Potential Impact on the Adirondacks.
Yan Li A Wells BBS.
Friday, April 28 NO COLLOQUIUM (Please attend the ground-breaking ceremony for the new science facility, which starts at 1pm)
Wednesday, May 3 Ariel Byers A Comparative Analysis of the Dynamic Interactions of Edaphic Characteristics, Nutrients, and Crop Growth in an Organically-managed, a Conventionally-managed, and a Fallow Soil
Friday, May 5 Megan Miller, Rebecca Manning.
Friday, May 12 Olivia Mualim,
Elizabeth Hernon Mating Choice of Wild-type Male Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) when Presented with Both Wild-type and Curly Females.

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