The Center for Science in Society

Graduate Idea Forum

Reading: Gary Klein, "Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions"
[All articles available on Blackboard]

January 18, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

January 25, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Laura Blankenship
"Blogging, Social Software, and Emergence"

January 27, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein
"An Overview of Challenges and Directions"

February 1, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

February 3, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke
"A View from the Humanities"

February 8, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein
Growth Points (?) in Emerging Emergence: Evolution, Architecture, Story Telling, and Generativity

February 10, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

"Can Women Have It All? And What Role does Public Policy Play? A Study of Bryn Mawr Alumnae in the Federal Civil Service": Marissa Golden (Political Science)

Co-sponsored by The Program in Gender and Sexuality
and The Center for Science in Society

February 15, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

February 17, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Mary Beth Davis
"Teaching Science to the General Public: Perspectives from the Wagner Free Institute of Science"

February 22, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke
"Feminism, Emerging"

Graduate Idea Forum

Reading: The Myth Of Empowerment: Women And The Therapeutic Culture In America  by Dana Becker (GSSWSR)

February 24, Friday
2:30-3:45pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

March 1, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

March 15, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rich Wicentowski
"Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphology"

March 17, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brainstorming with the President's Advisory Committee for Work-Family Balance: Marissa Golden (Political Science)

Co-sponsored by The Program in Gender and Sexuality
and The Center for Science in Society

March 22, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Graduate Idea Forum

Reading: Pema Chodron. "When Things Fall Apart : Heart Advice for Difficult Times"

March 24, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

March 29, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Al Albano
"Stories physicists tell, or what do they mean when they talk of 'ultimate reality'?"

March 31, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

April 5, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker
"Socially Extended Cognition"

April 7, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

April 12, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: George Wilson (Villanova U.)
"Ants"

April 14, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Maeve O'Hara ('08 Math and Education) and Rachel Horton ('07 Biology)
The Students' Point of View

April 19, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ken Whang
"Neural populations, Dimension reduction, & Models"

April 21, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

April 26, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

April 28, Friday
1:15-2:30pm, Multicultural Center
229 Roberts Road

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Peter Brodfuehrer
"Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Science Education"

(Rescheduled from 2/24)

May 3, Wednesday 8:00am SHARP

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

May 5, Friday
9:00-11:00am, GSSWSR, Kingsbury Room/110

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings: Works by Richard Rorty (see schedule for details).

(rescheduled from April 28)

May 9, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Note summer schedule day/time/location change!

May 16, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

May 16, Tuesday
9:00am-1:00pm, English House

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education

6th Annual Tri-Co Workshop on New Pedagogical Methods in Math and Science
focusing on the question:
"How do we know if our teaching and educational outreach through grants are effective?"

May 23, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP

At Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

May 30, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

June 6, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP

At Swarthmore College, Rm. 102, New Science Center

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ronnie Sadovsky
"Emergently Defining Emergence"

June 13, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein
"From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond: The Nature of Inquiry, and of What is Being Inquired Into"

June 20, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

June 27, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP

BMC Campus Center Rm. 200

July 4, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Graduate Idea Forum

Reading: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

July 11, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

July 18, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

July 25, Tuesday
8:30am SHARP, Park Sciences Building., Rm. 230

Graduate Idea Forum

Reading: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin, continued

Day/time/location vary - see listing for details