Bryn Mawr College

Center Archives

Fall 2007

Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Anne Dalke and David Ross, Departments of English and Economics "Randomness and Risk-Taking: Dealing with Uncertainty" On-line Reading: Chapter 1, Taleb's The Black Swan
"Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty"
Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Kim Cassidy, Department of Psychology Creating a Culture of Risk
Emergent Systems: A Discussion Astra Bryant Emergent Properties of the Leech
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Tamara Davis, Department of Biology "Why a Mammal Needs a Biological Mom and Dad: Mom's DNA... Too Much of a Good Thing?"
Emergent Systems: A Discussion Astra Bryant Emergent Properties of the Leech (Continued from Oct. 3)
Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Elizabeth McCormack, Department of Physics "Flocks and Pyramids: One Physicist's Take on Risk-taking and Change in Academic Communities."
Emergent Systems: A Discussion Astra Bryant Emergent Properties of the Leech (Continued from Oct. 3)
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology "Living a Life of Risk...and Why" On-line Reading: This Isn't Just MY Problem, Friend
Emergent Systems: A Discussion Open
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Kalala Ngalamulume Africana Studies and History Department "Homo Festivus: Leisure and Colonialism in French Senegal: A Research Agenda"
Emergent Systems: A Discussion Karen Greif
Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Marissa Golden, Department of Political Science "Taking the Risk of Changing our Scholarship"
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
Brown Bag: Risk-Taking in the Academy--and Beyond? Alison Cook-Sather and Alice Lesnick, Department of Education "Risk-Taking in the Classroom and Beyond"
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology "Applied Neurobiology: Science and Inquiry as Story Telling"
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Marc Ross, Department of Political Science
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Amiram Amitai, Judaic Studies
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Jim Wright, Classical & Near Eastern Archeology
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Lisa Traynor, Mathematics

 

Spring 2007

Graduate Idea Forum Readings: McNeill: EBP in an Age of Relativism. Gilgun: Four Pillars EBP Kent, Hayward: When Averages Hide Individual Differences
Exploring Mental Health "The Role of Individuals" Pre-discussion readings: A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry (1998) Biology and the Future of Psychoanalysis: A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry (1999)
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Peter Brodfeuhrer (Biology) "Leeches, Motor Patterns, and Spinal Networks"
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Melissa S. Murphy (Anthropology) "Violence and Inca resistance to Spanish Conquest A view from human skeletal remains"
Exploring Mental Health "Meaning-making, Logotherapy and Mental Health" Pre-discussion readings: Time, human being and mental health care: an introduction to Gilles Deleuze The Use of Psychotherapy with Dying Patients: An Exploratory Study Logotherapy as an Adjunctive Treatment for Chronic Combat-related PTSD: A Meaning-based Intervention Purpose-in-Life as a Function of Ego Resiliency, Dogmatism and Biographical Variables
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Karen Stephenson (Hepburn Fellow Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center) "Networks - Decoding Culture"
Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Paul Farmer: Pathologies of Power (1st chapter)
Philips Visitor Physics & Astronomy Eric Mazur (Departments of Physics & Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University) Science Pedagogy Colloquium: "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer"
Elementary Science Education: A Working Group Reading: "Darwin's God"
First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Prof. Karen Greif (Biology) "Research in an Age of Bioterrorism"
Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Sen, Amartya (2000). Will there be any hope for the poor? Time. May 22. pp 94-95. Sen, Amartya (1985). Well-Being, Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Apr., 1985), pp. 169-221. Sen, Amartya (1993). The Economics of Life and Death. Scientific American, 268(5), 40. Retrieved Thursday, April 12, 2007 from the Scientific American Archive Online database.
Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Jonathan Lear. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Eric Kandel. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

 

Fall 2006

Exploring Mental Health "Models of Mental Health: A Critique and Prospectus"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: David Harrison (SWAT Linguistics) "Language as an Emergent System"

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: David Thacher: "Normative Case Studies."

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Arlo Brandon Weil (Geology) "Using ancient geomagnetic compasses to answer large-scale geologic questions A gentle introduction to paleomagnetism and its applications"

A Public Conversation: Siobhan Davies & Science in Society Faculty "In Plain Clothes" Philadelphia Dancing, with Siobhan Davies Dance Event poster

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Kenneth Whang "Data-driven methods for discovering the structure of neural and cognitive representations" Background paper

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Kenneth Whang "Data-driven methods for discovering the structure of neural and cognitive representations" (continued) Background paper

Exploring Mental Health "Models of Mental Health: A Critique and Prospectus" (continued) and "Culture as Disability"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Kenneth Whang "Data-driven methods for discovering the structure of neural and cognitive representations" (continued) Background paper

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Leslie Rescorla (Psychology) "Assessment of Mental Health Problems in Children and Adolescents: Findings from 31 Countries"

Public Health Focus Group: Health Reform Panel "The Right to Health: Increasing Access to Health Care in America" With guest speakers: Walter Tsou, MD, MPH, former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia Carla Willis, Ph.D., Senior Economist of the American Medical Association

Elementary Science Education: A Working Group

F irst Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Peter Magee (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology) "From Arabia to Pakistan: exploring the archaeology of human settlement on the 'borderlands' on the Ancient Near East"

Chemistry Colloquium: Christopher Oze (Department of Geology) "Rock Drop Soup: The Origins and Destruction of Life Through Geochemical Processes" Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. Lecture at 4:15 p.m.

Exploring Mental Health "The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Health"

Elementary Science Education: A Working Group

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Steven Johnson: "Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life"

 

Spring 2006

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

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg "Misinformation Networks: Why a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on"

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

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

Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation: Alexis Bennett and Kelly Strunk "Psychology 340 - Women's Mental Health"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Sandy Schram "Globalization: discourse, circular causality and the self-fulfilling prophecy of welfare state retrenchment"

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

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Victor Donnay "Improving Science Education Through the MSPGP"

"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

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

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

Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation: Peter Brodfuehrer "Biology 321 - Neuroethology"

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)

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

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ronni Sadovsky "The Virtue of Stubborn Conviction: Ethics Through the Lens of Emergence"

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sandy Schram "Rethinking the Science Question in Social Science and Social Work: Practice Wisdom, Local Knowledge, Metis and Phronesis"

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

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Karen Greif

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Peter Briggs & Al Albano "Promoting Cross-Disciplinary Discussion among Freshmen"

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Peter Beckmann "Teaching Physical Concepts Beyond the Boundaries of "Standard Culture" and Language" Abstract

Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation: Kelly Strunk

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Deepak Kumar "Rethinking Computer Science Education"

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

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

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

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sharon Burgmayer The Chemistry of Art

Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation: Linda Caruso-Haviland & Gail Hemmeter "CSem I: Performance and Self"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Doug Blank "Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Peter Brodfuehrer "Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Science Education" (Rescheduled from 2/24)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Doug Blank "Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules" Part 2

Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Works by Richard Rorty (see schedule for details). (rescheduled from April 28)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Doug Blank "Rules: We Don't Need No Stinkin Rules" Part 3

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Tim Burke "Futurism, prediction, and emergence"

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?"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Karen Greif

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

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

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mikio Akagi

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: George Wilson

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: (Open)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Benson

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: (Open)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin, continued

 

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jan Trembley, Anne Dalke, and friends "Being Emergent": A start at the beginning ...of the book. We will examine the prospectus of a book that we are writing: http://mightymouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/Bryn_Mawr_Prospectus.doc

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker "A Skeptical Look at Emergence" A discussion on the paper "How do you solve a problem like a (Fritjof) Capra?", by Burton Guttman: http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/skeptical-emergence.pdf

Graduate Idea Forum: Discussion of Carl Zimmer: "Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-- and How it Changed the World."

Diversity Conversations: Li-Chen Chin "Women's Roles 'Round the World"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology), Kate Shiner ('06) "Evolution"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker "A Skeptical Look at Emergence" (continued)

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Eric Raimy (Biology/Linguistics) "Multilingualism"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: Jossi Fritz-Mauer "Talking about Teaching in Africa"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak "Discussion of Nagel on Emergence"

Diversity Conversations: Alisa Horwitz, Kelli Payne and Annabella Wood "College as a Choice: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Catherine Riihimaki (Geology), Rheanna Bensel ('06) "The 'control' of nature in New Orleans"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Tim Burke "Emergence in Emergencies"

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Anthony Appiah. "Ethics of Identity," first chapter.

Diversity Conversations: Michelle Mancini, Amy Craiger, Val Jankowski and Jackney Prioly "Governing Ourselves: Does the System Support Everyone?"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Peggy Hollyday (Biology) "Gender and Science"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: Janique Parrott (BMC '08) "Experiences from the Urban Classroom" Janique will share stories of her experience as a middle school English classroom assistant with the Urban Scholars Program in Boston, MA.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein "Evolution, Alternate Stories, and Lines in the Sand" Pre-discussion reading: Intelligent Design and the Story of Evolution: No Need for Drawing Lines in the Sand

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein "Evolution, Alternate Stories, and Lines in the Sand" (continued)

Universe Bar: Maria Scott-Wittenborn "Transcending the Human Condition"

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Anthony Appiah. "Ethics of Identity," full text.

Diversity Conversations: Ruth Conboy, Meera Jain and Muska Nassery "One Size Does Not fit All: Body Issues and Images"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Alexis Bennett (Psychology) "Family Issues/Mental Health"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: Anne Flor-Stagnato ('06) and Shayna Israel ('08) "What are the contracts between teachers and students at Bryn Mawr?"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ted Wong "Sustainable Development"

Universe Bar: Paul Grobstein "Beyond Post-Modernism"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tamara Davis, Karen Greif (Biology) "Genetic Engineering"

Universe Bar: Megan Rowley "Gender and the Judiciary: The Public Response to John Roberts versus Harriet Miers"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Drew Mirante (Geology) "Nuclear Energy"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: Janet Rhi ('07) "Stories about Teaching English in Rural Poland"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein "Some further developments in the story of story telling"

Universe Bar: Rebekah Baglini Against School: The Philosophy of Unschooling and Autodidacticism

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Dr. Victor Donnay (Mathematics) International Models of Mathematics Education TIMSS video study: A Japanese Classroom

Pierre Laszlo (Scientist and Philosopher, Author of "Salt: Grain of Life") "A Tale of Two Sciences: Physics & Chemistry, 1860-1985" Talk from 1-2pm, followed by an informal discussion from 2-3pm. Event poster

Diversity Conversations: Elle Endre-Stacy, Chris MacDonald-Dennis, and Rachel Robbins "The Politics of Sexual Orientation"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Doug Blank (Computer Science), Rebekah Baglini ('07) "The Internet and the Free Culture Movement"

Representing Parenthood: The Big Picture Maria Scott-Wittenborn, Megan Rowley, and Anne Dalke Join us for a conversation about dispelling myths and defining ourselves, as we figure out how to balance work and family without the constraint of cultural stereotypes. Bring your children, and/or let us know if you need childcare. Co-sponsored by The Program in Gender and Sexuality and The Center for Science in Society

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein "The Emergence and (continuing) Evolution of the Story of Story Telling"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Math and Science Reform in K-12: Superintendents’ Perspectives Dr. Gertrude Bennett, Superintendent, Southeast Delaware County School District Dr. Gary Cooper, Superintendent, Radnor School District Dr. Victoria Gehrt, Superintendent, Bensalem School District

Universe Bar: Lucy Kerman Beyond Theory: Working to Sustain Mixed-income Mixed-race Communities

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Gary Klein. "Sources of Power: How People make Decisions."

Diversity Conversations: Florence Goff and Karen Tidmarsh "Examining Our History: Inclusion/Exclusion at Bryn Mawr"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Blythe Hoyle (Geology) and class "Petroleum Issues"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: CANCELLED

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke and Wil Franklin "Beyond Emergent Pedagogy: Scripted, Non-Scripted? Conducted, Non-Conducted?" What Happens When Agents Resist: A Report from the Summer Institute

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Diversity in Math and Science: How to help all students succeed Ms. Antoinette Torres, Vice Provost of Student Affairs, Drexel University

Universe Bar: Elizabeth Catanese and Anne Dalke "The Contextual, The Transcendent...and the Space Between?"

Diversity Conversations: Nell Anderson, Vanessa Christman, Jody Cohen, Anne Dalke, Christina Gubitosa, Li Huan Lai, Molly McTague, Rona Pietrzak, Anka Wilk "Re-envisioning Class in and Beyond the Bi-Co"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Ralph Kuncl (Provost), Elizabeth Logue (Postbac) "Ethical Issues in Drug Development"

Stories of Teaching and Learning: Paul Grobstein "A Case Study of Teaching/Learning at Bryn Mawr: Biology 202"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Shir Ly Camin, Education Coordinator, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia "Swarm: Contemporary Artists Explore the Concept of Emergence"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Teachers’ Perspective on Math and Science Reform A panel of teachers from Haverford and Norristown School Districts will speak on their experiences.

Universe Bar: Anne Dalke and Elizabeth Catanese "Post-Transcendence: The End of Ethics?"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Wendy Sternberg (HAV Psychology), Peter Brodfuehrer (Biology) "Pain and Foetuses" CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW...will be rescheduled in the spring semester

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke On "The End(s) of Ethics: Where Anthony Appiah Ducked-- and How Emergence Help Him (and Us?) Get Un-stuck"

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Kay Redfield Jamison. "Exuberance. The Passion for Life." Rescheduled from December 9th, due to snow

 

Spring 2005

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker Emergence Concepts in the Philosophical Literature

Explorations of Teaching Group: Facilitated by Jody Cohen (Education) Reading: Williams, Patricia. Alchemy of Race and Rights

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Bipartite Brain: Having One's Cake and Eating it Too

Diversity Conversations: Kim Cassidy How Women Fight: Making Nice at a Women's College

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Audience participation: science of and for all Paper for reading prior to discussion

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Bipartite Brain: Having One's Cake and Eating it Too (continued)

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Susan White (Chemistry) Why teach molecular biology in Africa?

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak Experience and the bipartite brain: the magical number 2 plus or minus 3

Diversity Conversations: Paul Somerville and Arthur Taylor (Dining Services), Debbie Rubin and Ellie Esmond (Community Service Office) Campus Diversity from the Perspectives of Some Members of the Staff

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Ted Wong (Biology) The long journey of a simple biological model

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak Consciousness and Experience

Graduate Idea Forum Readings: Schram, 2004. "Return to Politics" Weber, 1918. "Science as Vocation" Shdaimah, Stahl, 2004. "Reflections on Doing Phronetic Social Science. A Case Study." [All articles available on Blackboard]

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Hiroshi Iwasaki (Theater Program) Who's watching? – imaginary dialogues

Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: Teaching and learning at Bryn Mawr

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory in artificial neural networks

Diversity Conversations: Anne Dalke (Feminist and Gender Studies, English), Michelle Mueller (05), Jessie Payson (06) and Gilda Rodriguez (07) "Ain't I a Woman?": Re-defining Feminism

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tom Deans (Haverford, Director of College Writing) Writing across contexts

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory in artificial neural networks, Part II

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Al Dorof (Public Affairs), Dorothy Wright (Science & Technology Newsletter), Ruth Guyer (Haverford, General Studies) Bridging the two cultures: communicating science to the media

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory, representation, and abstraction in artificial neural network-controlled mobile robots

Diversity Conversations: Yinnette Sano and Chris MacDonald-Dennis "One People, Many Stories": Latina Identities

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Lab visits (details to follow)

Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: What do we want to change about Bryn Mawr as a teaching and learning environment?

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein The relationship between science and academia, including an introduction to the Journal of Research Practice, a new journal affiliated with the Center for Science in Society

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Reports and discussion of lab visits

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Lisa Meeden and Doug Blank Memory, representation, and abstraction in artificial neural network-controlled mobile robots, Part II

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Bellah et al. 1996. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (University of California Press).

Diversity Conversations: Sandy Schram "Red, Blue, Purple": Political Diversity

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology), Elliott Shore (CIO, History), Paula Viterbo (History of Science) Memory, history, and the brain II. Whence nostalgia and the constraints on stories?

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rich Wicentowski

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore, Biology) The human embryo and its popular audience: fictions and fetuses

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Deepak Kumar (Computer Science) The logics of artificial intelligence

Diversity Conversations: Paul Grobstein and Maria Scott-Wittenborn "Breaking the Silence:" Mental Health Issues at Bryn Mawr College

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Laura Blankenship (Information Services) Blogging Science: How Science gets Spun in the Blogosphere

Bryn Mawr as a Learning/Teaching Environment: A Conversation: How we can increase multicultural education at Bryn Mawr--and to what ends?

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jeff Elman (virtual)

Explorations of Teaching Group Topic and readings TBD.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Karen Greif (Biology) Science and civic policy

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Wil Franklin (Biology) & Anne Dalke (English & FemGen) An Emergent Response to Benedict XVI's Assault on Relativism

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Nisbett Richard, 2004. "Geography of Thought." (Free Press)

Diversity Conversations: Allie Petonic, Christina Gubitosa and Paula Arboleda Interactions Between Race and Class on Campus

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English and Feminist Studies), Al Albano (Physics), Amy Bug (Swarthmore, Physics) What’s new in gender and science?

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) An Introduction to Emergence

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) Defining Emergence (continuation of May 4th discussion)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Barber, 1996. "Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World" (Ballantine Books)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke (English, FemGen) "Where Words Come From-and Where They Go: Emergent Literature, Emergent Meaning"

Xinformatics Working Group: Dianna Xu (Computer Science) Presentation on work done on constructing 3D models from stereo images of an archaeological site

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: David Kenosian (German) "Ask not what I can do for Emergence, but What can Emergence do for me?"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jason Coleman "Emergence in Video Games"

Xinformatics Working Group: Drew Mirante (Geology)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jason Coleman "Emergence in Video Games" (continuation of June 8th discussion)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein and Rebekah Baglini "Stories, Authors, and Purpose: Langton's Ant Revisited"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg Return of the Reductionist: Thinking about "Thinking About 'Purpose'"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Karen Greif "Can we model a cell?"

Xinformatics Working Group: Don Barber (Geology) Recent fieldwork using GPS for barrier island mapping, and GPR for mapping sediment thickness and geometry of the strata

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg Return of the Reductionist: Thinking about "Thinking About 'Purpose'" (continued)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (continued)

Graduate Idea Forum Reading: TBD

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Topic TBD

 

Fall 2004

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Al Albano Planning meeting

Graduate Idea Forum: Discussion of Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon, A Geneology of 'Dependency': Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State and other readings

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ted Wong Termites, Boltzmann, Shannon, and Information

Explorations of Teaching Group: Discussion of Eleanor Duckworth "The Having of Wonderful Ideas " and other readings

Diversity Conversations: Jackney Prioly and Chris MacDonald-Dennis Re-imagining our Customs

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Doug Blank, Kim Cassidy, Anne Dalke, Paul Grobstein Emergent Pedagogy: Learning to Enjoy the Uncontrollable--and Make It Productive

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paula Viterbo (History of Science) What's Important About Science's Audiences?

Kirstie McClure, Professor of Political Science, UCLA "Political Truths, Statistical Frictions: The Condition of England Chez Carlyle and Elsewhere"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak A History of Emergence

Diversity Conversations: Laura Kramer, Orah Minder and Deborah Harrold Listening for Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Struggle

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Elizabeth McCormack (Physics) The Trials and Tribulations of Academic Writing: The Case for Cross-Training

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak A History of Emergence, continued

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tamara Davis (Biology) Presenting Science Within and Outside of the Lab

Graduate Idea Forum: Reading: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Writing Descartes: I Am, and I Can Think, Therefore ...

Discussion: Science Policy and the 2004 Election

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Rob Wozniak A History of Emergence, continued

Diversity Conversations: Heather Davis, Maria Fernandes and Michelle Mancini Sustained Dialogue: A Report and an Invitation

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English) Science as Story: Re-reading the Fairy Tale

Explorations of Teaching Group: Plagiarism and Ethics

"A Life in Two Genders": A reading and discussion by Jennifer F. Boylan See website for further information about the author.

Political Polarization and Economic Inequality: Spatial modeling of political behavior Tuesday, Oct. 19, 4:30-5:30pm: A general audience talk - in Swarthmore College Science Center, Room 101 (refreshments at 4:15pm) Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1:30-2:30pm: A more technical talk for the modeling group - in Bryn Mawr College Park Science Building, Room 229 (refreshments at 1:15pm)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg (Economics, Swarthmore) The Two Faces of Emergence in Economics

A lecture by Shizhe Huang (C. V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics from Haverford College): "Some remarks about universal quantification with natural language in mind" Refreshments prior to lecture. The first in a series of three language seminar talks. The other two talks are: Thursday, Nov. 4, at Swarthmore College Thursday, Dec. 2, at Haverford College

Diversity Conversations: Emily Madsen and Linda-Susan Beard "Organic Discussions": Diverse Pedagogies for Diverse Peoples

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Kalala Ngalamulume (History) Translating Science Between Cultures

Once Upon A Time Is Now: An Art Installation Created By Elizabeth Catanese

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein From the Active Inanimate to Models to Stories to Agency (and Back Again) Revisited

Rothenberg Lecture: Mike Dombeck (Professor of Global Environmental Management & UW System Fellow of Global Conservation College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) U.S. Conservation Challenges: Are We Making the Right Policy Choices?

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Don Barber (Geology) Interpreting Climatic Catastrophe: Media vs. Science

Graduate Idea Forum: Reading: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Writing Descartes: I Am, and I Can Think, Therefore ...

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein From the Active Inanimate to Models to Stories to Agency (and Back Again) Revisited (continued)

A lecture by Anne Dalke (English, Feminist and Gender Studies): "Where Do Stories Come From? Emergence, Surplus Meaning, and the Last Word" The second in a series of three language seminar talks. The other two talks are: Thursday, Oct. 21, at Bryn Mawr College Thursday, Dec. 2, at Haverford College

Diversity Conversations: Nia Turner, Paula Arboleda and Alnisa Bell Report from South Africa

Brown Bag Lunch Series (CANCELLED)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Tim Burke (History, Swarthmore) Artificial Societies Meet Virtual Worlds

Signs and Voices: Language, Arts, and Identity from Deaf to Hearing Thursday, Nov. 11 - at Swarthmore College (Lang Concert Hall) Friday, Nov. 12 - at Swarthmore College (Science Center 101) Saturday, Nov. 13 - morning at Bryn Mawr College, late afternoon and evening at Haverford College Sunday, Nov. 14 - at Swarthmore College (PAC Stage) Refer to website for details.

Speaker: David Corina (University of Washington) Single Neuron Responses in Human Temporal Cortex: Observations of the Microstructure of Cognition

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology) and Elliott Shore (History) History, Memory and the Brain

Speaker: Dr. Tom Knutson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab Impact of CO2-induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation

Diversity Conversations: Posse students, Jody Cohen and Nell Anderson Posse On Campus

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jody Cohen (Education) Exploring Pathways to Access: Students Teaching Students

Graduate Idea Forum: Reading: Arthur I. Miller, Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc

A lecture by Eric Raimy (Linguistics, Swarthmore College): "A story about 'pahked cahs': the intersection of neurobiology, linguistics and sociology" Refreshments will be served at 7:00pm, the talk will begin at 7:15pm, and discussion will follow the talk. The third in a series of three language seminar talks. The other two talks are: Thursday, Oct. 21, at Bryn Mawr College Thursday, Nov. 4, at Swarthmore College

Diversity Conversations (CANCELLED)

Explorations of Teaching Group: "Morality" as a guide for action (or not), reviewing issues of ethics, evaluations, assessment, plagiarism, personal property/public property. We will be joined by visiting trustees.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker (Philosophy, Swarthmore) Emergence concepts in the philosphophical literature

 

Spring 2004

Explorations of Teaching: Jody Cohen (Education Program) Discussion of Paulo Freire (1998) Pedagogy of Freedom, Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Paul Grobstein It's either designed or emergent.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Katherine Rowe (English) Composing a Collage: Comparing Our Conceptual Maps and Investments

Diversity Conversations: Natalie Abbott and Stephanie Bell Culture As Disability

Graduate Idea Forum: Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne, "Culture as Disability" Herve Varenne, "Extra Burdens in the Search for New Openings: On the Inevitability of Cultural Disabilities"

Language: A Conversation: Jeffrey Elman Finding Structure in Time

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: More Paul Grobstein It's either designed or emergent.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Scott Silverman (Information Services) What's So Informative About Information?

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Mathematics and Science Literacy: what is it and how to achieve it

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Ted Wong Why Evolution By Natural Selection Isn't Emergent

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sandy Schram (GSSWSR) Reassessing Welfare Reform: Numbers in Search of Narratives

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Mathematics and Science Reform at the Elementary School Level

Diversity Conversations: Nell Anderson and Paula Arboleda Diversity in the Communities Surrounding Us

Beauty: A Symposium: Sharon Burgmayer (Chemistry) Molecular Aesthetics: Making the World More Beautiful

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jim Wright

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sharon Burgmayer (Chemistry) The Teleology of Green, or: Is There Meaning in Orange?

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Mathematics and Science Reform at the Secondary School Level

Graduate Idea Forum: Carol Gilligan The Birth of Pleasure

Beauty: A Symposium: Susan Levine Beauty Treatment: The Aesthetics of the Psychoanalytic Process

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Tim Burke

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English) and Ted Wong (Biology) Information Overload: Turning It Off/Turning It On

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Mathematics and Science Reform at the Collegiate Level

Diversity Conversations: Paul Grobstein (Center for Science in Society) Thinking About Segregation and Integration-- An Interactive Scientific Exploration Using Models

Beauty: A Symposium: Mark Lord (Theater and the Arts Program) To Attend or Not to Attend: Beauty in Performance

Language: A Conversation: Louis Menand Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Jim Marshall

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Kim Cassidy (Psychology) Information Processing: How Psychology Approaches Knowledge

Explorations of Teaching: Who is the Teaching Self? Parker J. Palmer The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Beauty: A Symposium: Al Albano (Physics) How a Physicist Sees Beauty

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Anne Dalke

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Natasha Lee (French) Meaning and Genre

Diversity Conversations: Hannah Wilhelm and Chuck Heyduk Re-thinking Customs and Traditions at Bryn Mawr

Graduate Idea Forum: Carol Gilligan The Birth of Pleasure, continued

Beauty: A Symposium: Christine Koggel (Philosophy) Concepts of Beauty: A Feminist Philosopher Thinks About Paradigms and Consequences

Language: A Conversation: We will be reading the Special Issue of Science Magazine on The Evolution of Language: 303, #5662 (February 27, 2004). Copies of the articles are available for pick-up in Park Science Building and in English House, as well as on line: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/303/5662/1315

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Alan Baker

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Nancy Collins (Public Affairs) Is It All Noise? What Matters in Public Relations

Beauty: A Symposium: Paul Grobstein (Center for Science in Society) Biology, Brains, and Beauty: How Do They (and We) Relate?

The (Continuing) Evolution of (My) Mind: An Engagement with Dan Gottlieb

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Doug Blank and Jim Marshall (Computer Science) A Bit About Bits

Diversity Conversations: Jessie Posilkin and Orah Minder Religious Diversity--Navigating the Tough Spots

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tamara Davis (Biology) Genotype and Phenotype

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Mark Kuperberg (Economics, Swarthmore College) Canonical Emergence

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jenny Rickard (Admissions) Information, Meaning, and Noise in College Admissions

Diversity Conversations: Claudia Ginanni (Public Affairs) Sexual Identity and Perception at Bryn Mawr, Then and Now.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Al Albano (Physics) Boltzmann, Shannon, Information ... and black holes??

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Betsy Reese (Map Curator, Collier Science Library) The Secret Life of Maps

Explorations of Teaching: Workshop with Mary Belenky and Blythe Clinchy (2 of the co-authors of Women's Ways of Knowing)

Emergent Systems: A Discussion: Doug Blank What would motivate a robot to go from the Active Inanimate to Story Teller?

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Center for Science in Society) Information Update: Searching for the Third Law

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Eleanor Duckworth (Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education) Understanding Learner's Understanding with Eleanor Duckworth

Diversity Conversations: Nia Turner, Florence Goff and Anne Slater The Contradiction of Change

Graduate Idea Forum: Antonio Damasio The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness (1999)

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education: Follow-up discussion on Eleanor Duckworth's visit on April 29.

Explorations of Teaching: Teaching and Learning with Uncertainty Sharon Welch, Feminist Ethic of Risk Paul Grobstein, A Vision of Science (and Science Education) in the 21st Century: Everybody "Getting It Less Wrong" Together

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Ongoing discussions throughout the summer

Graduate Idea Forum: Antonio Damasio The Feeling of What Happens, continued

Emergent Systems / Brown Bag Series Information?: An Inquiry

 

Fall 2003

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Ted Wong   (Biology) Why Quantify; or, Why the World Is Not Enough

Undergraduate Summer Research Program Poster Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: Diverse Identities: Living in Community

Emergent Systems: A Discussion

Graduate Idea Forum Peggy MacIntosh, Feeling Like a Fraud Anne Dalke (2002) Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach, P. Lang

Diversity Conversations: Moderator Paul Grobstein Biology and Diversity

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Anne Dalke (English, Gender Studies) Numbers and Narratives: A Humanist Reflects on the Relation

Emergent Systems: A Discussion  Paul Grobstein-Buchanan's ''Nexus''

Language Working Group Meeting Reading of selection from Ray Jackendoff

Graduate Idea Forum: Introduction Toulmin's "Return to Reason" and Cleland's "Historical Science, Experimental Science and the Scientific Method"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Arlo Weil (Geology) What I'm Counting, Why and How

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke-Emergence in Humanities, Take 1

Environmental Studies Series: Eleanor Sterling Director, American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Science In Conservation: A Focus On Vietnam's Biodiversity

Diversity Conversations: Moderator Anne Dalke Blood Child, by Octavia Butler

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Elliott Shore (Information Services) If You Can Count It, It's Worth Counting

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke-Emergence in Humanities, Take 2

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jody Cohen (Education) and Nell Anderson (Praxis) Moving Beyond the Quantitative Definition of Merit: Learning from and with the Posse

Physics Colloquium: Francis Robicheaux Department of Physics, Auburn University “Ultracold Hot-matter”

Math Colloquium: Lynnell Matthews University of Pennsylvania “A Variation on the Tennis Ball Problem”

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Jim Marshall-Metacat, a model of human analogy-making

Special Lecture: Panel and open discussion Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Enemies, Acquaintances, Bedfellows? A Conversation Convenor: Bruce Levin Moderator: Susan Levine Panel Members: Elio Frattaroli Sydney Pulver Paul Grobstein

Environmental Studies Series: Julie Hagelin Assistant Professor of Biology, Swarthmore Chemical Signals In Birds: Implications For Behavior And Conservation

Diversity Conversations: Moderator Ted Wong "Asian: Race or Category?" Reading: Frank Wu Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White (2002): pp. 1-38.

FALL BREAK

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paula Viterbo (History of Science) Counting the Days: Natural Family Planning

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Jan Trembley-Emergent Pedagogy

Environmental Studies Series: Mary Seton Director and Founder, Greensgrow Philadelphia Project Demystifying Urban Agriculture

Geology Lecture: Steve Jarvela Federal On-Scene Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Vapor Plume at the Tranguch Gasoline Site: A Case Study from Hazleton

Diversity Conversations: TBA

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Elena Bernal   (Institutional Research) College Rankings: What Factors Drive Them

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Jim Wright-Cultural Geography

Graduate Idea Forum: Catharine Stimpson Readings: Catharine Stimpson, Myths of Transformation: Realities of Change, PMLA 115, 5 (October 2000), 1142-1153 Catharine Stimpson, General Education for Graduate Education, The Chronicle Review, from the issue dated November 1, 2002 Catharine R. Stimpson, "The Idea of the Corporate University," Written for a conference at the Society of Humanities, Cornell University on "The Idea of the University," October 18-19, 2002.

Special Lecture: Catharine Stimpson (Class of 1958) Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences New York University The Future of Graduate School Education

Biology Lecture: Eli Meir Research Scientist, MIT and SimBiotic Software Robustness and Flexibility in Genetic Networks

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Radcliffe Edmonds (Classics) The Theology of Arithmetic

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Mark Kuperberg-Emergence in Economics

Environmental Studies Series: Alec Brownlow Assistant Professor , Geography & Urban Studies Temple University Thoughts On A Multicultural Urban Ecology

Diversity Conversations: TBA

Tri-Co Mellon Faculty Working Group on Math Modeling: Don Barber (Geology) Modeling in Weather Prediction (Particularly Hurricanes) and Climate Change

Chemistry Colloquia: Veronika Szalai (Class of 1988) Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland DNA Oxidation by Ruthenium Complexes

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Liz Mc Cormack (Physics) Concepts of Measurement in Physics

The Rothenberg Lecture: Ian Bowles Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Cambridge, MA Executive Director, Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC) The Global Biodiversity Treaty: Why is the United States Not a Party?

Bi-Co Mathematics Colloquium: Fang Chen Emory University Multidimensional Erdos-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Karen Greif-Not Peter Corning

Brown Bag Lunch Series: David Ross (Economics)   Bucks, Values and Happiness

Physics Colloquium: Robert W. Boyd Institute of Optics, University of Rochester Slow Light and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Response in Novel Materials

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Anne Dalke-Trees and Rhizomes

Biology and Psychology Colloquium: Wilson Q. Joe Ph.D. Candiadte BMC Neural and Behavioral Sciences Program An Executive Performance Account of Theory of Mind Expression

Environmental Studies Series: Johanna Polsenberg Director of Government Relations National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research Science: Tool Or Weapon On Capitol Hill?

Geology Lecture: Walter Leis Tetrahedron Consultants Tree Rings as Environmental Indicators: Dendrochronology in Geoforensics

Diversity Conversations: TBA

Chemistry Colloquia: Professor Stefan Bernhard Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Synthetically Tunable Chromphores with Optoelectronic Applications

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Michelle Mancini (Dean's Office and CSem Staff) The Face Behind/Above/Within the Numbers: Sentiment vs. Statistics, Then and Now

Bi-Co Mathematics Colloquium: Walter Stromquist Swarthmore College Packing Densities of Permutations

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) Measuring "Success'"and the Alumnae Bulletin

Emergent Systems: A Discussion

Graduate Idea Forum: Evaluation and feedback for students and teachers Tentative readings: Denise Clark Pope (2001)"Doing School": How We are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Yale University Press. "A Retrospect on Making and Judging," Chapter 8 in Jerome Bruner (1968) Toward a Theory of Instruction

Diversity Conversations:

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Paul Grobstein (Biology) Quantification and Value: What We've Learned So Far

Tri-Co Mellon Faculty Working Group on Math Modeling: Doug Norton Chair, Department of Mathematics,Villanova University Math Modeling and AIDS

 

Spring 2003

Language Working Group Meeting

Emergent Systems: A Discussion "What Is Emergence? What Is Emergent?"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong "Using NetLogo to Implement Cellular Automata"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Al Albano, Department of Physics Sharon Burgmayer, Department of Chemistry Peggy Hollyday, Department of Biology "Diamond-Cutters, Net-Casters and Day-Dreamers: Differences Among the Sciences"

A Matter of Time New Discussion Series Cheryl Chen, Mellon Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy "The Philosophy of Time"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong "Generalizing Cellular Automaton Behavior"

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Karen Tidmarsh Dean of the Undergraduate College "A Dean's Perspective: Effects of the Culture of Science on Students"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Kris Tapp "Universal CAs"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Professor Katherine Park Historian of Science, Harvard University "Was There a Rennaisance Body"

Special Lecture: Professor Katherine Park Historian of Science, Harvard University "Visible Women: Women's Secrets and the Origins of Human Dissection"

MUSIC EAST AND WEST Peabody Percussion Group Robert van Sice, Director Works inspired by music of India, Pakistan and Japan Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Michael Krausz, Conductor Works by Beethoven

Emergent Systems: A Discussion CANCELLED Rescheduled for 3/26

Language Working Group Meeting

A Matter of Time New Discussion Series Tony Rothman, Physicist Author of Doubt and Certainty and A Physicist on Madison Avenue, etc. "Seven Arrows of Time"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Mark Lord Department of Theater "Tomomi's Dream: Embodying Our Disciplines"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Doug Blank "Introduction to the Genetic Algorithm, in Python" See Pyro Module Evolutionary Algorithms

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Doug Blank, Department of Computer Science "Teaching Across Genders"

A Matter of Time New Discussion Series Peter Brodfuehrer, Department of Biology "Circadian Rhythms: The Clocks That Time Us"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion " Evolution as an Emergent Phenomena" Continuation from Feb. 26, plus videos. See Pyro Module Evolutionary Algorithms

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Joseph Disponzio Growth and Structure of Cities "Changing Paradigms: Eighteenth-Century Natural Science and the Rise of Landscape Architecture"

Spring Break

A Matter of Time New Discussion Series Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology "The Brain and the Sense/Meaning of Time"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Mark Kuperberg "Successful Examples of Emergence in the Social Sciences: A Partial View"

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Dan Sarewitz Managing Director & Senior Research Scholar Center for Science, Policy and Outcome Columbia University, Washington DC "Does Science Make You Happy?"

Special Lecture : Dan Sarewitz Columbia University, Washington DC "Prediction and Uncertainty in Science and Policy"

Mellon History of Science Fellowship Candidate Shelley Costa, PhD Department of History, Xavier University "Mathematics and Masculine Culture in Mid-18th Century England"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Rob Wozniak "A Developmental Psychologist Among the Emergenauts; Or, a Few Preliminary Reflections Made upon Observations Recorded during the Course of a Six-Month Voyage of Discovery Aboard the H.M.S. Emergence"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Xenia Morin Keck Fellow in Chemistry "Scientific Cultures at my House: Academic vs. Industrial Life Sciences"

Mellon History of Science Fellowship Candidate Paula Viterbo, PhD George Washington University Center for History of Recent Science ""I Got Rhythm: The Discovery of Time of Ovulation in Women and the Establishment of Natural Birth Control in America""

Mellon History of Science Fellowship Candidate Avner Ben-Zaken, PhD Department of History, UCLA "Hebraist Motives, Pythagorean Itineraries and the Galilean Agendas of Naples: On the Margins of Text and Context "

A Matter of Time New Discussion Series Michael Noel, Department of Physics "Measuring Time with Atoms: A 3587.39167492578 Second Discussion"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Rob Wozniak "A Developmental Psychologist Among the Emergenauts; Or, A Few Preliminary Reflections Made Upon Observations Recorded During the Course of a Six Month Voyage of Discovery Aboard the H.M.S. Emergence" (Continuation of March 26th meeting)

Language Working Group Meeting Rescheduled to Wyndham for the remainder of the semester

Mellon History of Science Fellowship Candidate Ruth Simpson, PhD Department of Sociology, Rutgers "Substance & Vision: Theories of Epidemics as Latent Social Theories"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Linda Caruso-Haviland and Yutian Wong Department of Dance "Dancing Bodies, Pedagogy and Technology"

Special Lecture: George Dyson Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003 "Von Neumann’s Universe: Digital Computing at the IAS, 1945-1958"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Tim Burke TBA

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Catherine Conybeare Classical Studies "Scientia" and "Cultura":The Origins and Development of these Words

Special Film Screening: "To Dream Tomorrow: A Portrait of Ada Lovelace" Produced and Directed by John Fuegi and Jo Francis

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Ted Wong TBA

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Melissa Pashigian, Department of Anthropology "Imparting the Social in Science"

Special Lecture: Shigehisa Kuriyama International Research Center for Japanese Studies "The Metaphysical Logic of Muscular Exercise"

Special Film Screening: "Alan Turing: Breaking the Code" Starring Derek Jacoby; Directed by Herbert Wise

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Paul Grobstein "What Is Information?"

Language Working Group Meeting

Special Lecture: Mark Notturno, Washington, D.C. "The Choice Between Popper and Kuhn: Criticism, and the Legacy of Logical Positivism"

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Michael Krausz Deartment of Philosophy "Interpretation and its Objects: Science and Non-Science"

Special Film Screening: "Pirates of Silicon Valley" Starring Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Karen Greif " Genes, Proteomics and Genetic Determinism: Can We Model a Cell?"

 

Fall 2002

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch: Ralph Kuncl Provost, Bryn Mawr College "The Balkanization of Science"

Undergrad Research Symposium

Brown Bag Lunch: Samantha Glazier Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry "Isolation, Persuasion and Conviction: Sustaining the Culture of Science"

Special Lecture: Ralph Kuncl "Pre-clinical Drug Development of Novel Motor Neuronotrophic Factors That Have Potential in Lou Gehrig's Disease"

Language Working Group Meeting

Special Seminar: Zhenya Zastavker Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering "DNA is Not the Only Helix in Town or A Story of Crafty Microsprings"

Brown Bag Lunch: Ted Wong Department of Biology "Metaphor, Metonymy and the Two Sciences"

Graduate Research Symposium Presentations by Bryn Mawr graduate students in science and mathematics.

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Doug Blank and Deepak Kumar Department of Computer Science "Emergence and Robotics"

Brown Bag Lunch: Rob Wozniack Department of Psychology "Psychology: The Imp ossible Science?"

Panel on Advancing Women in Science

Language Working Group Meeting

Graduate Idea Forum Steven Johnson, "Emergence"

Brown Bag Lunch: Katherine Rowe Early Modern Studies "Science Culture and Time"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Jim Wright, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Architecture "Emergent Complexity in Bronze Age Greece: A Case Study of Settlement and Land-Use ca. 2000-1200 B.C.E."

Fall Break

Brown Bag Lunch: Tomomi Kinukawa Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Science "The Scientist's Body"

Special Lecture: Scott Ritter Former UN Weapons Inspector "The Coming War with Iraq: How Did We Get There?"

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch: Panama Geer Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science "Decentralization and Self-Organization: Not Just for Ants"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Victor Donnay, Department of Mathematics "Ideas on Regular and Chaotic Dynamical Systems: A Mathematician's Perspective on Issues in Complex Systems"

Special Lecture: Octavia Butler, Author "A Parable: Writing Science Fiction in These Times."

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch: Michael Tratner "An Anatomy of Cultural Studies Methods"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Panama Geer Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science " Swarm Intelligence: An Example"

Special Lecture: Daniel Charles Contributing Science Correspondent, NPR News Section Contributor, Science Magazine "Lords of the Harvest: The Hidden History of Genetically Engineered Food"

The Rothenberg Lecture: Shirley M. Tilghman President, Princeton University "Perspectives on the Stem Cell Debate"

Brown Bag Lunch: Chris Couples UNIX System Administrator for the Sciences "The Political Practice of the Sys-Admin"

Language Working Group Meeting

Graduate Idea Forum Steven Pinker, "The Blank Slate"

Brown Bag Lunch: Kris Tapp Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics "Philosophies of Mathematics"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Panama Geer Keck Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Computer Science Swarm Intelligence: Continued

Language Working Group Meeting

Special Lecture: Professor Judith Houck University of Wisconsin-Madison "The Social History of a Biological Process, Menopause, 1897-1980"

Emergent Systems: A Discussion Group Paul Grobstein Discussion Topics: (1) Complex Systems: Continued (2) Ideas/Agenda for Next Semester & Beyond

Brown Bag Lunch: Professor Judith Houck University of Wisconsin-Madison "Why Scientists Should Care About History"

Special Lecture: George P. Lakoff University of California, Berkeley "The Brain, The Mind, and Language: Why They Matter in Personal Life, in Politics, and Throughout the Academic World" Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Linguistics are presently esoteric disciplines that most people know little about. Yet they are utterly transforming our understanding of virtually every aspect of our lives - especially our personal and political lives. They also have transformative implications for virtually every academic discipline. This lecture will be an overview for a general audience.

Language Working Group Meeting

Brown Bag Lunch: Paul Grobstein Department of Biology "Philosophies of Science: A View From the Brain"

Emergent Research Group

 

Spring 2002

Computational Scientist Search Talk: Mark Changizi Duke University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences "Why We See Geometrical Illusions"

Keck Search Math Talk: Kristopher Tapp SUNY at Stony Brook "Finiteness Theorems in Geometry"

Brown Bag Discussion: Ann Herzig Bryn Mawr College, Environmental Studies Program

Computational Scientist Search Talk: John P. Dawson Department of Geoscience The University of Iowa "A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama: Reactions of Azooxanthellate Corals to the Closure of the Central American Isthmus'

Why the Need for Change in Math and Science Education: "The changing nature of the disciplines, what it means to be literate in the disciplines, and the National Standards for math and science education" Speakers: Mr. Doug Ross, High School Science Teacher at Friends Central: Earth Force, a standards based science curriculum involving the environment and service learning. Mr. Joe Merlino, Project Director of the Greater Philadelphia Secondary Mathematics Program, a NSF funded project for local Systemic Change: The standards and mathematics education.

Computational Scientist Search Talk: Theodore G. Wong School of Computational Science and Information Technology Florida State University "Evolutionary-Computational Studies of Two Problems in the Ecology and Development of Plants"

Keck Search Math Talk: John Vano University of Texas "The Stability of Slinkies, Slide Guitars and the Solar System"

Brown Bag Discussion: Xenia Morin "What's on your table"? A discussion about genetically modified foods and the science behind it.

Computational Scientist Search Talk: Sima Setayeshgar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics "Stripes, Spots and Scrolls: Some Problems in Pattern Formation"

Philosophy Colloquia: Jacques Catudal Department of Philosophy, Drexel University "Terrorism, the Constitution, and the Internet" http://www.brynmawr.edu/philosophy/Colloquia.html

Keck Search Physics Talk: Patricia Purdue California Institute of Technology "Reading the Ripples: A New Window on the Universe"

Panel Discussion Congressman Curt Weldon, State Senator Connie Williams, Dr. Karen Hanson of Greater Philadelphia First: "The Need for Educational Change from the Government and Business Perspective"

Keck Search Math Talk: Panama Geer Rennselaer Institute of Technology. " Cellular Lines"

Brown Bag Discussion: Xenia Morin (Part II) "What's on your table"? A discussion about genetically modified foods and the science behind it. Working Group on Research and Public Policy

Why the Need for Change in Math and Science Education "Examples of Individual Change in Teaching Math and Science" Speakers: Dr. Deborah Bergstrand, Deptment of Mathematics, Swarthmore College: "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking": a lower level course that uses a hands-on approach to expose students to exciting mathematical ideas.  Dr. Kim Cassidy, Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College: "The role collaboration between faculty members and between faculty and students in changing science pedagogy".

William Labov University of Pennsylvania "Learning to read: Linguistic light on dark corners of the mind."

Special Lecture: David P. Barash Professor of Psychology University of Washington, Seattle "The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People" More information about the speaker and his work can be found on his web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/dpbarash/

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Tensions that Arise when Involved in Change and Supports that can Aid in Change" Speakers: Natalie Hiller Secondary School Math and Science Coordinator, Haverford School District. Rochelle Devor Math and Science Educator, Beeber Middle School. Peggy McCloskey Math Educator, Rosemont School of the Holy Child

.Brown Bag Discussion: Don Barber, Ph.D. "The Ocean's Role in Past and Future Climate Change."

Special Lecture: Maitland Jones, Jr. Chemistry Department, Princeton University "Teaching Organic Chemistry Without a Lecture. Are you Crazy?" Following the discussion, Professor Jones will be giving the Chemistry Department Colloquium, "Twisting and Stretching Double Bonds". That talk will be held in PSB 180 at 4:30 p.m.

Brown Bag Discussion: Doug Blank '"Open" (or "Free") Software Uses in Education and Society"'

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Systemic Change in Math and Science Education" Speakers: Natalie Heller Secondary School Math and Science Coordinator for the Haverford School District: Project 2061, a national reform project to improve science education. Joe Merlino Director, The Greater Philadelphia Secondary Mathematics Project: Local Systemic Reform in Mathematics Education Ned Wolff Department of Mathematics, Arcadia University: The role of college faculty in supporting change in K-12 math education.

Spring Break

Brown Bag Discussion: Marc Schultz "Dear Diary: Using daily reports to investigate work and family processes"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Understanding Children's Understanding" Dr. Ann Renninger of the Department of Education, Swarthmore College, will discuss how students learn mathematics.

Brown Bag Discussion: Amy Campbell "It's All in the Game"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Issues of Race, Class, Gender and Culture in Math and Science Education" Speakers: Debbie Ryan School District of Philadelphia Deborah Pomeroy Arcadia University

Special Event: Tom Sgouros "Judy: What is it Like to be a Robot?" Post-Performance Panel Discussion: "If You Build a Robot Smart Enough to do the Dishes, will it also be Smart Enough to Find Them Boring?" Paul Grobstein - Neurobiology Deepak Kumar - Computer Science Mark Lord - Theater Anjali Thapar - Psychology Moderator: Douglas Blank - Computer Science

Brown Bag Discussion: Arlo Weil "Life before Pangea: The Supercontinent Rodinia and Its Influence on the Earth System"

Special Event: Sharon Lamb "The Secret Lives of Girls: Sex Play, Aggression, and Guilt"

Biology Seminar: Dr. Kate Kalil (BMC '62) University of Wisconsin, Department of Biology "Common Mechanisms Underlying Growth Cone Guidance and Axon Branching"

Special Event: Enhancing Connections: The K-16 Community and Integrating Science in the Curriculum The Philadelphia Regional Network of Project Kaleidoscope, a national higher education organization concerned with science/math education, is holding a workshop on campus this Saturday, hosted in part by the Center for Science in Society. The regional network is interested in encouraging collaborations between K-12 and college/university scientists/educators. The workshop, aimed at bringing together college and pre-college teachers from around the Delaware valley for productive discussion will include a variety of presentations and small group discussions. College faculty/staff/students are invited to attend and participate in any and all sessions, which begin in the Benham Gateway Building at 8:30 am and continue to 3:30 pm. For further information, see http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/pkal/index.html

Brown Bag Discussion: Paul Grobstein "The Nature of Science"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Changing Pedagogical Strategies" Speakers: Nancy Scanlon Coopertown Elementary School: "Using Science Kits at the Elementary Level" Lisa Chirlian  Chemistry Department, Bryn Mawr College, " Evolving Teaching Strategies in General Chemistry" Victor Donnay  Math Department, Bryn Mawr College: "Inquiry Based Learning in Advanced Mathematics"

Biology Seminar: Dr. Catherine Thut Merck & Co., West Point, PA "I Only Have Eyes for You: Studying eye development using large scale gene expression anlaysis"

Biology Seminar: Cindy Lee Van Dover Professor of Biology College of William and Mary "A Shrimp's Eye View of Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents"

Science in Society Steering Group Meeting

Special Lecture: Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland "Hierarchical Language Structure in the Brain: Two Challenges"

Biology Seminar: Dr. Claire Cronmiller, BMC '74 University of Virginia, Department of Biology "Drosophila Oogenesis: An experimental model for studying gene regulation, morphogenesis and crack babies"

Special Seminar: Tomomi Kinukawa Mellon Fellow in History of Science "Women's Health and Japanese Imperialism: A Preliminary Research Report."

Brown Bag Discussion: Blythe Hoyle and Krynn Lukacs "The Pond, the Environment, and Pedagogy"

Special Seminar: Dr. Harold Shapiro President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, and former Chair, National Bioethics Advisory Commission "The Ethical Dimensions of Scientific Progress: Reflections on Dolly, Stem Cell Research and Contemporary Genetics"

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education "Community Voices Involved in Change" Kathleen W. Taylor, Ed. D.  Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services, Haverford School District Ellen B. Hollin  Chair, Education Committee, Haverford School Board Carol Restifo  Principal, Haverford Middle School Meg Hagenbuch  Parent, Haverford School District

Philosophy Colloquia: Andrew Brook Department of Philosophy, Carleton University "Cognitive Science and Its History" http://www.brynmawr.edu/philosophy/Colloquia.html

Special Seminar: Ruth Levy Guyer Visiting Professor, Haverford College "Writing Life: Communications on Medicine, Bioethics, Nature, and Science"

Biology Seminar: Robert A. DeAngelis Department of Cell and Molecular Biology University of Pennsylvania "Liver regeneration in mice lacking the p50 subunit of NF-KB"

Biology Seminar: Derek P. Lessing Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale University "Using genetics to investigate olfaction in fruit flies"

Brown Bag Discussion: Kenneth Richman "Ethics for Scientists: Some Human Subjects Scenarios."

Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education " Reform in Elementary School Science Education" Dr. Carlo Parravano Director, Merck Institute for Science Education

Ph.D. Candidate: Jeff Oristaglio Department of Biology Bryn Mawr College "Variability in frog prey orienting behavior: New insights into visuomotor processing"

 

Fall 2001

	Poster Session	Summer Science Research Projects
	Brown Bag Discussion	Paul Grobstein Introduction to the Center for Science in Society
	Brown Bag Discussion	Xenia Morin, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow "The role of universities in the face of increased demand for industrial collaboration". Based on the article: Watchdogs of Biotech Are in the Universities.
	Brown Bag Discussion	Leslie Rescorla "Epidemiological Study of Behavior Problems and Language Delay in Young Children".
	Brown Bag Discussion	Susan White International Science Education : Togo, West Africa
	Graduate Science Research Symposium	http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Physics/grad/symp.html
	Brown Bag Discussion	Xenia Morin, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow "The role of universities in the face of increased demand for industrial collaboration". Based on the article: Watchdogs of Biotech Are in the Universities. Part II of 9/18/01 Discussion
	Elio Frattaroli, M.D. Author of Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World	Presentation: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and the Mind-Body Problem Panel Discussion: Brain-Body-Mind-Soul: How many of these does one need and why? Panelists: Anne Dalke, Paul Grobstein, Janet Shapiro and Elna Yadin Reception & Book Signing
Fall Break
	Brown Bag Discussion	Koffi Tozo (Visiting Scientist in Chemistry) "Research in a Developing Country: The Case of Togo" http://www.ub.tg/swintro.htm
	Brown Bag Lunch *Drinks/desserts provided	WHERE SHOULD WE PLACE MATHEMATICS IN THE TEACHING OF OTHER DISCIPLINES? Physical and social scientists often use mathematics as a tool to aid our understanding of the world. Typically, introductory courses in both the sciences and social sciences emphasize using mathematics and problem solving based approaches. Does this approach help or hinder student understanding of concepts? How can we help students develop both their conceptual understanding of a discipline as well as their ability to utilize mathematics as a way of extending that understanding? A discussion forum on Serendip has been established to facilitate continued conversation on this topic. Please visit: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/forum/newforum/sciedustyles-read.html to add your thoughts to the conversation.
	Symposium	"Women and Science: Opportunity in a Changing Landscape" http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/stories/womeninscience.shtml
	Symposium	"Women and Science: Opportunity in a Changing Landscape" http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/stories/womeninscience.shtml
	Brown Bag Discussion	Mary Beth Davis "Teaching Science to the Public" http://www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org/Adult_Education/adult_education.html
	Brown Bag Discussion	Paul Grobstein Follow-up discussion on Mental Health and Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
	Brown Bag Discussion	Tomomi Kinukawa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "Multiculturalism in Science"
	Maxine Savitz	"Energy Efficiency: the Missing Link in Energy Technology and Policy"
	No Brown Bag	Thanksgiving Break
	Brown Bag Discussion	Juan Burciaga "A Private Universe: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms" http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/mcdermott.html
	Lillian McDermott and Paula Heron	University of Washington Physics Education Research Group
	Lillian McDermott	"Discipline-Based Science Education Research: The Key to Student Learning"
	Faculty Workshop w/ Lillian McDermott	"Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning: A Workshop for Science and Mathematics Faculty"
	Brown Bag Discussion	Susan White "Women in Science: The Recent BMC Symposium and Beyond" http://pubs.acs.org/cen/html/women/women.html (the first three items require no password)
	Brown Bag Discussion	Ross H. Pastel, Ph.D. Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service Corps, U.S. Army Chief, Education and Training Operational Medicine Division US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases "Psychological Effects of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
	Special Seminar	Ross H. Pastel, Ph.D. "Bioterrorism: What Can We Do?"

 

Spring 2001

Scott Patterson Glaxo Smith Kline	Statistical Work Experiences in a Major Pharmaceutical Company
Catherine Steiner Adair Harvard Eating Disorders Center	Throw Your Weight Around: The Challenge of Preventing Eating Disorder
Amber Hallibaugh Lesbian AIDS Project, New York	My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home
Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Marco Lenci SUNY at Stony Brook	Infinite Step Billiards
Molly McGuire University of Wisconsin, Madison	Environmental Science at the Interdisciplinary Crossroads: The Biochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage
Richard Burian Virginia Polytechnic Institute	What is the State of the Art in Science Studies?
Kendra Lawrence University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh	Role of spiders and other generalist arthropod predators in the forest floor leaf-litter food web
Samantha Glazier Cornell University	Tracking Energy Conversion in Five Generations of Dendrimers
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
Jarita Holbrook University of California, Los Angeles	The Ideal Mariner and the Blind Fisherman: A Transmission Theory for Celestial Navigation
Graduate Student Meeting - Pizza/sodas provided
Mark Lechner University of Pennsylvania	Targeting the HP1 Family of Heterochromatin Regulators and Epigenetic Silencers
Kevin Padian University of California, Berkeley	Insights into the Dinosaur World: New Ideas on How Dinosaurs Lived and Died
Tomomi Kinukawa University of Wisconsin, Madison	Maria Sibylla Merian (1667-1717) and Natural History Collecting in Northern Europe
Gina Kolata New York Times	Finding An Interesting Story Among the Mundane: A Journalist's View of Reporting on Science and Medicine
Jennifer Terry Ohio State University	What Should Women Want? Sexual Rights and Tropes of Hygiene In an Era of Global Capitalism
Paul Grobstein Bryn Mawr College	The Brain's Images: Reflecting and Creating Human Understanding
Wiliam Rathje Stanford University	Garbology: The Archeology of Us
Ralph Kuncl Johns Hopkins University	Icons of Visual Culture in Medicine
Paul Ehrlich Stanford University	Human Natures
Mental Health Conversations - pizza/sodas provided
Xenia Morin Wilmington, Delaware	Making Sense of Mutations: Understanding Disease Severity in Cystic Fibrosis
Colleen Regan Stanford University	TBA
Graduate Student Journal Club	Discussion of: Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects and future organization