For the spring semester of 2008, Sigma Xi will be meeting on Tuesdays for lunch at the College Club
from January 29 through April 29. Talks begin at 12:15 pm and are open to all faculty and
staff (and to students by invitation).
The schedule will be revised as talks are added.
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic
|
|
29 January
|
John Brady
Dept. of Geology
|
Sugar Rocks Have Holes |
|
5 February
|
Michael Marcotrigiano
Director
Botanic Garden |
How we get new plants
|
|
12 February
|
Charles Johnson
Dept. of Economics |
Sub-Prime
Mortgages: How to turn a silk purse into a sows ear |
|
19 February
|
Katie Hunt
Immediate Past President, American Chemical Society
|
It's All About Chemistry:
Lessons in Life, Love and Leadership
Special Event in McConnell 103
(light lunch provided)
|
|
26 February
|
Steve Williams
Department of Biology |
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Project on the Global Program for
the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis; or What I Did on My Sabbatical
Leave |
|
4 March
|
Richard Myers
Director of Finance
David DeSwert
Director of Budgets and Grants
|
Grants Administration at Smith |
|
11 March
|
Annual Meeting
|
Sigma Xi business (at College Club) |
|
18 March
|
Spring Break
|
No talk |
|
25 March
|
John Burk
Department of Biology |
To the Lighthouse Yet Again: the Outer Banks Revisited. |
|
1 April
|
Robert Dorit,
Biological Sciences & Ileana Streinu,
Computer Science
|
Proposed Program in Biomathematics |
|
8 April
|
Mark Brandriss
Department of Geology
|
Tectonics, glaciers and climate change with the Juneau Icefield Research Program. |
|
15 April
|
Bob Merritt
Department of Biology |
Albert Francis Blakeslee: Genetics and Taste. |
|
22 April
|
Peter Pufall
Department of Psychology |
Children's views of politics: Approximating but not Parroting their parent's views of the '04 Presidential Election. |
|
29 April
|
Kate Queeney
Chemistry Department |
Work of Science Center Committee on Diversity |
