CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS AND CHAPTER NEWS
CHAPTER BROWN BAG LUNCH MEETINGS
12:00 noon to 1:30 PM on Fridays in West Avenue Annex (WAAX) 209 in the Center for Math and Science Education. Faculty Staff (Yellow) parking on south side of building. Street parking and WAC parking lot is free until 2 PM. Grab some lunch on Dickson Street, bring from home or have it delivered.
Notices of Chapter Seminars are posted to Daily Headlines and the Chapter Listserv.
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Seminars for the 2018-2019 Academic Year
Note that all seminars begin at 12:30 PM in West Avenue Annex 209 unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 7 | Shawn Bell (CMASE) | Plans for the future for the Center for Math and Science Education | |
| Nov 9 | James Lampinen (PSYC) | Seeing is Sometimes Not Believing: How Eyewitnesses Get it Wrong and How Science Can Help Set Them Right | |
| Nov 16 | Rob Wells (JOUR) | Case studies in business journalism covering business ethics and the corrupt banker. | |
| Nov 30 | Zoraida Aguilar (Zystein, LLC) | Antimicrobial applications of essential oils and plant extracts | |
| Feb 1 | Ajay Malshe (MEEG) | Bio-inspired Science and Engineering; Social Innovations and Social Entrepreneurship | |
| Feb 8 | William McComas (CIED) | Biological Themes in the Galapagos Islands: a photo tour | |
| Mar 8 | Darya Zabelina (PSYC) | Get distracted easily? You might be a creative genius! | |
| Tameka Jennings (BISC) | |||
| Douglas Rhoads (BISC) | Imhoff Award presentation | ||
Seminars for the 2017-2018 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3 ARKU503 | Nagayasu Nakanishi (BISC) | How squishy sea creatures can help us understand the early history of nervous system evolution | |
| Nov 17 ARKU511 |
Zoraida Aguilar, Zystein, LLC | Antimicrobial applications of essential oils and plant extracts | |
| Feb 2 | Sarah Durant (BISC) | What makes a good parent? Lessons from birds. | |
| Feb 16 | Caitlin Ahrens (SPAC) | Ice Geology of the Outer Solar System | |
| Mar 9 | Charles Muntz (HIST) | Diodorus Siculus, the Golden Fleece, and the Fall of the Roman Republic. | |
| Apr 6 | Connie Lamm (PSYC) | How your brain makes you behave or misbehave. | |
Seminars for the 2016-2017 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 23 | NONE | ||
| Oct 7 | Erica Westerman (BISC) | Understanding sexual attraction: genes, experience, and signals. | |
| Oct 28 | James Koltes (ANSC) | Genes in cattle, genes in humans, understanding the complexities of iron regulation. | |
| Nov 18 | Lucas Delezene (ANTH) | The root of the problem: Dental perspectives on the evolution of Homo naledi | |
| Jan 27 | Thomas Paradise (MEST) | Twenty five years of research in Petra, Jordan: Nabatean architecture, sandstone weathering, and cultural heritage management. | |
| Feb 10 | Jason Tullis (GEOS) | Unmanned aircraft systems (drones) and other geospatial advances in environmental monitoring | |
| Feb 24 | |||
| Mar 31 | |||
| Apr 21 | |||
Seminars for the 2015-2016 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 25 | Adam Siepelski (BISC) | Explaining species diversity: A cautionary tale of woe and intrigue. | |
| Oct 9 | Jiangchao Zhao (ANSC) | Who’s there doing what: the human and animal microbiome in health and disease | |
| Oct 30 | Andy Pereira (CSES) | Challenges in improving rice in the face of climate change | |
| Nov 13 | Hugh Churchill (PHYS) | Building electronic devices with atomically thin materials | |
| Jan 29 | Bret Lehmer (PHYS) | X-raying Black Holes Throughout the Universe | |
| Feb 12 | Erik Pollock (BISC/UASIL) | Beyond food webs: Stable isotopes in ecological and physiological processes | |
| Feb 26 | Patrick Williams (HIST) | Reconstruction politics in Arkansas | |
| Mar 11 | |||
| Mar 18 | Nate Parks (PSYC) | Dynamics of Visual Processing in Human Cortex | |
| Apr 22 | Daniel Kennefick (PHYS) | The LIGO detector and gravitational waves. | |
Seminars for the 2014-2015 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 5 | Benjamin Runkle (BAEG) | Field research above the Arctic Circle: Carbon flows in the Siberian permafrost | |
| Oct 10 | Derek Meyers (Harvey Winner) | Ultrathin Films of Rare-Earth Nickelates: Rational engineering of the phase space | |
| Oct 24 | Lynne Hehr (CMASE) | K-12 STEM Outreach: You Want Me to Do What? | |
| Nov 21 | Ralph Henry (BISC) | Faculty Entrepreneur: My experience with a startup and phase I human clinical trials | |
| Dec 5 | Steve Beaupre (BISC) | Volcanoes and Komodo Dragons: what I did on my summer vacation. | |
| Jan 16 | Bhanu Koppolu (BMED) | Cancer Immunotherapy: Can we really cure cancer? | |
| Jan 30 | Walt Manger (GEOS) | Everything You Wanted To Know About The Geology Of Kessler Mountain, But Were Afraid To Ask. | |
| Feb 27 | Matthew Pattitz (CSCE) | Self-assembly at the molecular level: Combining self-assembling systems and computational theory | |
| Mar 13 | Karen Sebold (PLSC) | The Political Geography of Campaign Contributions in Presidential Elections: 2004-2012. | |
| Apr 10 | Ashley Dowling (ENTO) | Looking out for the little guys: increasing understanding of mites and other small arthropods in North America | |
| Apr 24 | Janine Parry (PLSC) | Polling, Polling Everywhere: Being a Savvy Consumer of Public Opinion Data | |
Seminars for the 2013-2014 Academic Year
| Date | Speaker | SeminarTitle | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 27 | Zoraida P. Aguilar, Director of Research and Development, Zystein | “Nanomaterials for Medical Applications” | |
| Oct 11 | Patrick Stewart (PLSC) | “Disgust sensitivity and response to leaders: Lessons from the 2012 Presidential Election” | |
| Oct 25 | Jeffrey Lewis (BISC) | “Eavesdropping on the Inner Life of Cells.” | |
| Nov 8 | David Schroeder (PSYC) | “Changing our brains to reduce genocide?” or ” Helping, Altruism, and Cooperation: Psychology, Biology, Economics, Groups, and Maybe Some Zombies” |
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| Nov 22 | Roger Koeppe (CHBC) 2013 Imhoff Award Winner | “Which protein functional groups are ionized in lipid bilayer membranes, and how do we know?” | |
| Dec 13 | Steve Boss (GEOS/ENDY) | “The Case For Gun Free Colleges: A Review of Violent Crime on College Campuses, 2001-2012” | |
| Jan 24 | J.J Lockhart (AAS) | “Technological Applications for Archaeogeography in Arkansas” | |
| Feb 21 | Adnan Al-Rubaye (BISC/CEMB) 2013 Harvey Award Winner | Molecular identification of bacteria involved in lameness in broiler. | |
| Mar 14 | Paul Millett (MEEG) | “Computational Modeling of Self-Assembled Material Nanostructures” | |
| Mar 28 | Spring Break | ||
| Apr 11 | Robert Weidenmann (ENTO) | “The ontogeny and phylogeny of ideas: connectedness, serendipity, and error” | |
| Apr 25 | Byron Winston (CSES) | “Global Climate Change may enhance Phosphorus driven Eutrophication and alter algal nutrient stoichiometry” | |
Seminars for the 2012-2013 Academic Year
| Speaker | Seminar Title | |
| Sept 14 | No meeting | |
| Oct 12 | JD Willson (BISC) | Invasive Pythons in South Florida: What We Know, What We Need To Know, and Lessons Learned From Snake Ecology |
| Oct 26 | Woodrow Shew (PHYS) | Phase transitions and information processing in the brain |
| Nov 16 | Steve Boss (GEOS) | A herd of dinosaurs in Southern Arkansas. |
| Nov 30 | Daniel Levine (WLLC) | Tuna in Ancient Greece and Modern Tuna Population Decline |
| Jan 25 | Jerry Rose (ANTH) | Akhenaten’s People Speak: The Skeletons of Tell El-Amarna, Egypt |
| Feb 8 | Jin Woo Kim (2012 Imhoff Award Winner) | DNA-Linked Nanoparticle Building Blocks for Programmable Matter |