Wells College Science Colloquium
Spring 2008


In honor of our new science building, Ann Wilder Stratton '46 Hall, Science Colloquium is part of Wells’ year-long celebration of the sciences (2007-2008). The Colloquium features speakers in all areas of the sciences, including Wells students and faculty, and researchers from other institutions. Science Colloquium meets on Fridays during the fall and spring semesters from 12:40 to 1:30 in Stratton Hall 209. All are welcome to attend.
For further information, please contact Professor Jackie Schnurr or Professor Carol Shilepsky

DATE SPEAKER/EVENT
Friday, February 1 Internship Poster Session in Stratton Atrium, 12-2pm (sponsor: Professor Schnurr)
Friday, February 8 Brent Boscarino, Ph.D Candidate in Natural Resources, Cornell University, Effects of moonlight and temperature on alewife-mysid shrimp feeding interactions in Lake Ontario (host: Professor Wahl)
Friday, February 15 Martin Bernal, Professor Emeritus of Government and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean History, Cornell University, India in the Making of Europe (host: Professor Shilepsky)
Friday, February 22 Dr. Mark Snider, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The College of Wooster, Thermodynamics of Enzyme Action (host: Professor Godert)
Friday, February 29 Dr Kenneth Miller, Brown University, Time to Abandon Darwin? Meeting the Challenge from 'Intelligent Design (host: Professor Collmer)
Friday, March 7 Dr. Kari Lavalli, Wells '82, Assistant Professor of Natural Science, Boston University, Cooperative Defense by Non-kin Related Caribbean Spiny Lobsters Under Attack by Cooperative Predators, (host: Professor C. Shilepsky)
Thursday, March 13 Harriet Baker, Wells '63, Burke Medical Research Institute, Are olfactory bulb dopamine neurons ideal for treating Parkinson's disease? (host: Professor Wahl)
Friday, March 21 Spring Break, no colloquium.
Friday, March 28 Activism Symposium
Friday, April 4 Sara A. Miller, The Effects of Constant Light on Germination, Early Growth, and Sucrose Translocation in Lycopersicum esculentum
Kelly Siegfried, Model for the Manganese-Mediated Oxidation Site in Photosynthesis
Friday, April 11 Abbie Corwin, Much Ado About Nothing
Chris VanWert, Website Security
Friday, April 18 Julie Wittenzellner, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: A clean energy source for the future and today
Renee Kusse, Electric Reefs: Constructing Artificial Coral Reefs through Electrochemistry
Wednesday, April 23 Ashley Zanca, Flatland
Aimee Raymond, Cryptography and its Ciphers
Friday, April 25 Jessica Keller, Light Effects on Pigmentation in the Developing Salamander Ambystoma mexicanum
Ashley Bittner, Synthetic route to three cocaine analogs for possible overdoes treatment
Wednesday, April 30 Chad Hagstrom, MIDI-Driven Gaming across a Local Area Network
Allie Duffney Visual Pigments and You: Unique Structures Among Visual Pigments Determine not only Their Spectral Properties but Different Succeptibility to Chemical Attack
Friday, May 2 Erika Van Nostrand, Comparison of Seed Rain and Seed Predation Rate between Tsuga canadensis and Acer saccharum Stands
Laura Lamb, Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Valuable Additions to Physical and Chemical Water-Quality Testing
Wednesday, May 7 Matt Concha, Virtual Wells, Laura Tatum, Chloride Levels in Salmon Creek
Friday, May 9 Allison Inga, The Distribution of Primordial Follicles in the Mouse Ovarian Cortex
Sarah Brower, Circadian Rhythms of Boozing Fruit Flies

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