For the spring semester of 2012 Sigma Xi will be meeting on Tuesdays for lunch in McConnell Foyer.
from January 31 though May 1. Talks begin at 12:10 pm and are open to all faculty and
staff (and to students by invitation).
The schedule will be revised as talks are added.
| January 31
| Zeynep Delen
Chemistry,
Bogazici University , Istanbul, Turkey
| Bringing the Liberals Arts Model to Different Cultures - The Zeytin Project in Turkey.
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| February 7
| CATS
Science Computing
| Computing in the Science Center
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| February 14
| Robert Merritt
Biological Sciences
| Sex and the Single X : A
Valentine's Day Tale
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| February 21
| John Burke
Biological Sciences
| Conservation and its
Consequences: Longterm Change in Freshwater Marsh Communities
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| February 28
| Kevin Shea
Chemistry
| The Role of Women in the Development and Discovery of Named Organic Reactions:A journey from simple student question to consuming STRIDE project to a widely read publication
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| March 6
| Mary Harrington
Life Sciences
| Circadian
disruption and your health: Could the change to Daylight Savings Time be
bad for you?
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| March 13
| Michael J.F. Barresi
Neuroscience Program
| Time to go fishing for research - What the zebrafish model and the Smith College Zebrafish Facility can provide you for research and teaching
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| March 20
| No Talk
Spring Break
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| March 27
| Annual Meeting
| Election of members and other business
At Conference Center
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| April 3
| Naila Moreira
Jacobsen Center
| A Tale of Two Rivers: Cleanup and Consequences of PCBs in the Duwamish and Hudson River Ecosystems
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| April 10 | Russell Rymer
Jacobson Visiting Writer
| Natural Science and the Aim of Writing: Flannery O'Connor In Burton Hall
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| April 17
| Katherine Halvorsen
Mathematics & Statistics
| Common Core Standards for K-12 Mathematics
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| April 24 | Evelyn Fox Keller
Neilson Professor
| How Words Matter to the Making of Scientific Knowledge
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| May 1
| John Brady
Geosciences
| Orbicules: Snowballs in Magma
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