- Biology Colloquium
Spring Semester 2013
Sessions designated as interdisciplinary are part of the series "Neils Colloquia on Innovative Science," or NCIS. Numerous times each semester, a speaker at the forefront of science will speak to a joint physics, biology, and chemistry audience.
All sesssions are now CORE APPROVED!
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January 11
Orientation and Organization
Friday, January 18 (Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
"Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Where Size Really Does Matter"
Dr. Todd Krauss
Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester
Friday, January 25
“TBA”
Dr. Robert Brodman
Department of Biology
Saint Joseph’s College
Friday, February 1
“Round Table Discussion on Science Education”
Friday, February 8
“Mathematical Modeling in Ecology: Why We're not Neanderthals and other Neat Results”
Dr. Alex Capaldi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Valparaiso University
Friday, February 15
Annual Celebration of Darwin Day
“Nature, Nurture and the Nurturers”
Dr. Mike Wade
Department of Biology
Indiana University
Friday, February 22 (Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
"Using principles of civic engagement to teach science: brownfields, green chemistry, and art"
Dr. Mike Samide
Department of Chemistry
Butler University
Friday, March 22 (Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
"Toward a better coordinate system in which to solve the Schroedinger Equation for the helium atom"
Dr. Warren Kosman
Department of Chemistry
Valparaiso University
Friday, April 5 (Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
"The Global Nitrogen Cycle and Nitrogen Fixation by Iron Complexes"
Dr. Patrick Holland
Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester
Friday, April 12
Valparaiso Student Research
Friday, April 19 (Interdisciplinary Colloquium)
"Paper or Plastic? Two Philosophies of Microfluidic Biosensing"
Dr. Dick Crooks
Department of Chemistry
University of Texas, Austen
Friday, April 26
Valparaiso Student Research
Friday, May 3
Valparaiso Student Research
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