Bryn Mawr College Center for Science In Society Events Calendar - Spring, 2001

To facilitate the broad conversations, involving both scientists and non-scientists, which are essential to continuing explorations of the natural world and humanity's place in it, the nature of education, the generation, synthesis, and evaluation of information, technology and its potentials, the relationships between forms of understanding.

Events marked in yellow are sponsored/cosponsored by the Center for Science In Society. These will, in general, be preceded by open forums for students/faculty/staff at times/places to be posted here prior to the events. Additional events in February and March will be scheduled in relation to ongoing searches for postdoctoral research/teaching fellowships in science and in history of science. For details about particular events, contact the individuals named in the right column. Contact Paul Grobstein for general information about Center activites and to have relevant events posted in this calendar.

Tuesday, 6 February 3 pm Park 328	Scott Patterson Glaxo Smith Kline	Statistical Work Experiences in a Major Pharmaceutical Company	co-sponsored with Mathematics (Victor Donnay)
Tuesday, 6 February 7 pm Park 328	Catherine Steiner Adair Harvard Eating Disorders Center	Throw Your Weight Around: The Challenge of Preventing Eating Disorder	Body Image Council (Molly Ahrens) Harvard Eating Disorder Center Creating a Curriculum to Help Girls Battle Eating Disorders
Monday, 5 March 4:15 pm Thomas 224 Reception following: Thomas, London Room Faculty discussion Friday, March 2, noon, Campus Center Room 210	Amber Hallibaugh Lesbian AIDS Project, New York	My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home	co-sponsored with Feminist and Gender Studies (Jane Caplan) in a series on Human Diversity: Sex and Gender Liberalism and the Left: An Activist's Perspective Lesbian Health Research: Does It Really Matter? Heart of the Matter
Tuesday, 6 March 6 pm Sci Bldg Room 234	Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Thursday, 8 March 7 pm Thomas 102	Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Tuesday, March 20 4:30 pm Park 338 Tea 4 pm Park 355	Marco Lenci SUNY at Stony Brook	Infinite Step Billiards	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Mathematics (Victor Donnay)
Friday, March 23 4:15 pm Park 180 (Berliner Lecture Room)	Molly McGuire University of Wisconsin, Madison	Environmental Science at the Interdisciplinary Crossroads: The Biochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Ed Wovchko)
Wednesday, 28 March 7:30 pm Thomas 224 Thursday, 29 March 8 am Breakfast Discussion Wyndham	Richard Burian Virginia Polytechnic Institute	What is the State of the Art in Science Studies?	co-sponsored with Philosophy (Micheal Krausz) Ontological Progress in Science Against Generality: Meaning and Reference in Genetics and Philosophy
Thursday, 29 March 4 pm Park 229	Kendra Lawrence University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh	Role of spiders and other generalist arthropod predators in the forest floor leaf-litter food web	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Biology (Ann Herzig)
Friday, March 30 4:15 pm Park 180 (Berliner Lecture Room)	Samantha Glazier Cornell University	Tracking Energy Conversion in Five Generations of Dendrimers	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Sharon Burgmayer)
Monday, 2 April 4:30 Park 338	Amy Crumpton American Association for the Advancement of Science	Advocating a Science of Human Survival: Barry Commoner, Margaret Mead, and the AAAS Committee on the Promotion of Human Welfare	Mellon Fellowship Program co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)
Tuesday, 3 April 4:30 pm Park 338	Jarita Holbrook University of California, Los Angeles	The Ideal Mariner and the Blind Fisherman: A Transmission Theory for Celestial Navigation	Mellon Fellowship Program co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)
Tuesday, 3 April 6 pm Sci Bldg Room 234	Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Thursday, 5 April 4 pm Park 229	Mark Lechner University of Pennsylvania	Targeting the HP1 Family of Heterochromatin Regulators and Epigenetic Silencers	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Biology (Tamara Davis)
Thursday, 5 April 7:30 pm Park 243 noon, Wyndham lunch with students wsaunder@brynmawr.edu 2 pm, Park 227 Discussion: Teaching Evolution	Kevin Padian University of California, Berkeley	Insights into the Dinosaur World: New Ideas on How Dinosaurs Lived and Died	Sigma Xi (Bruce Saunders) National Center for Science Education: Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools
Monday, 9 April 4:30 pm Park 338	Tomomi Kinukawa University of Wisconsin, Madison	Maria Sibylla Merian (1667-1717) and Natural History Collecting in Northern Europe	Mellon Fellowship Program co-sponsored with History and Science Departments (George Weaver)
Tuesday, 10 April 5 pm Carpenter 21 Discussion on science writing 3:45 pm Campus Center 210 All interested students/faculty welcome	Gina Kolata New York Times	Finding An Interesting Story Among the Mundane: A Journalist's View of Reporting on Science and Medicine	Rothenberg Lecture (Peter Brodfuehrer)
Monday, 16 April 4:15 pm Thomas 110 Reception following	Jennifer Terry Ohio State University	What Should Women Want? Sexual Rights and Tropes of Hygiene In an Era of Global Capitalism	co-sponsored with Feminist and Gender Studies (Anne Dalke) in a series on Human Diversity: Sex and Gender An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
Wednesday, 18 April 1 pm Thomas 224	Paul Grobstein Bryn Mawr College	The Brain's Images: Reflecting and Creating Human Understanding	co-sponsored with Center for Visual Culture
Sunday, 22 April 4 pm Goodheart Music Room	Wiliam Rathje Stanford University	Garbology: The Archeology of Us	co-sponsored with Anthropology and the Green Committee
Wednesday, 25 April 1 pm Thomas 224	Ralph Kuncl Johns Hopkins University	Icons of Visual Culture in Medicine	co-sponsored with Center for Visual Culture
Friday, 27 April 4 pm Thomas Great Hall	Paul Ehrlich Stanford University	Human Natures	co-sponsored with Biology and the Environmental Studies Program Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb The Tangled Skeins of Nature and Nurture in Human Evolution
Thursday, 3 May 7 pm Thomas 102	Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Wednesday, 16 May 4 pm Park 180	Xenia Morin Wilmington, Delaware	Making Sense of Mutations: Understanding Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Susan White)
Thursday, 24 May 2 pm Park 180	Colleen Regan Stanford University	TBA	Keck Research/Teaching Fellowship Program co-sponsored with Chemistry (Frank Mallory)
Thursday, 7 June noon PSB 339	Graduate Student Journal Club	Discussion of: Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects and future organization	co-sponsored with science departments (Susan White)