UPCOMING SEMINARS
Sigma Xi Symposium will be held Friday, May 1, 2009. Gustavus students present their research in the areas of biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, and psychology. It will be held in Nobel Hall at Gustavus from 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. with a reception and poster session at 3:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Schedule + Abstracts.
Gustavus Adolphus College Biology Department speaker will be Dr. Michael Menaker, Commonwealth Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia, will be presenting a seminar on biological clocks titled: Circadian Organization: From black box to molecular mechanism and back. Dr. Menaker uses a mouse model system to understand how mammals tell time. The seminar is scheduled for Friday April 17, 2009 at 3:00pm in NHS Wallenberg Auditorium.
University of Minnesota speaker will be Professor Drew Endy, PhD, is an Assistent Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford Universityand President of the BioBricks Foundation (BBF). Professor Endy will be presenting a seminar titled: Dialoge and Notes on Synthetic Biology. The seminar is schedualed for Thursday April 16, 2009 at 11:30am-1:00pm in Theater Coffman Memorial Union. For more information and work history see poster on Biology bulletin board.
PAST SEMINARS for 2008
Gustavus Adolphus College Biology Department speaker will be Dr. Mariana F. Wolfner, Professor of Developmental Biology at Cornell University. Dr. Wolfner will be on campus and available to meet with interested faculty and students from Tuesday morning, March 18 until ~2:00 pm on Wednesday, March 19. She will be presenting a research seminar titled: What's love got to do with it? How male-derived proteins regulate reproduction in female fruit flies. The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday March 18 at 4:30 pm in NHS 222.
Mariana Federica Wolfner is a member of Cornell's Graduate Fields of Genetics & Development and of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology. She is also a House Fellow of Cornell's Alice Cook House. She received a B.A. in Biology (genetics and development) and Chemistry from Cornell in 1974, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford in 1981, and did postdoctoral work at UC San Diego. Her research is currently supported by NIH, and has previously received support from NSF, HFSP, a DuPont Young Faculty Award, a Basil O'Connor grant from the March of Dimes, Career Advancement and POWRE Awards from the National Science Foundation, and a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society. She has received awards from Cornell for teaching and advising (Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award, Stephen H. Weiss Fellow) and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She serves on several Editorial and Biology-organizations' Boards.
The following link provides additional information about her teaching & research interests: http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/wolfner.cfm
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Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights"Globalization and the Universality of Human Rights"April 10-13, 2008 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
The fifth annual Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR) is proud to announce a national student conference on "Globalization and the Universality of Human Rights," which will take place on Northwestern's Evanston campus on April 10-13, 2006. The Conference will examine the impact of globalizing forces on the tension between cultural relativism and the universality of human rights in four key areas: cultural and religious tensions, multinational corporations, international justice, and health. NUCHR will provide the funding to bring talented undergraduate student leaders and activists from colleges across the country to attend a three-day summit. Students will interact with distinguished speakers and panelists, comprised of top academics, activists, and policy-makers in the field.
As the largest student-organized and student-attended human rights conference in the United States, the conference is dedicated to fostering social activism and raising awareness of international human rights issues by uniting student leaders from across the country with renowned activists, academics, and policy makers over a three day summit. In the past, the conference has focused on issues such as American interventionist policy, American policy towards HIV and AIDS in the developing world, human trafficking, and torture. We have featured distinguished speakers such as Romeo Dallaire, Richard Holbrooke, Bernard Kouschner, Stephen Lewis, John Miller, and Cherif
Bassiouni.
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Chapter of The American Physiological Society
Join us for the
Iowa Physiological Society
Annual Meeting
April 18-19, 2008
Moose Lodge, Iowa City, IA
This is a great opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students,
research assistants, and fellows to present their latest work in a relaxed
setting. Prizes will be awarded for best abstracts.
To be eligible for awards, abstracts must be submitted by April 1, 2008
Advance Registration due April 11, 2008
For more information and registration and abstract forms visit our website
www.intergate.com/~harald/IPS_2008
OR
Contact Joan Seye (joan-seye@uiowa.edu (319) 384-4664 or
Gina Schatteman gina-schatteman@uiowa.edu (319) 335-9486
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Sanford School of Medicine, The University of South Dakota
Centenial Research Symposium
Emerging Strategies: Bridging Basis and Clinical Science
Friday - Sunday, June 13-15, 2008
Lee Medicine Building, 414 East Clark Street, Vermillion, SD
Featuring Keynote Speaker, Dr. Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor, MIT, Winner of the 1993 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Nebraska Physiological Society Annual Meeting
Saturday, September 6, 2008
on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Joey Granger, University of Mississippi is the Research Keynote Speaker. Dr. Dee Silverthorn, University of TX is the Educational Keynote Speaker. Visit www.unmc.edu/dept/physiology/nps for more information on the meeting.
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Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
MSU's Undergraduate Research Conference and I wanted to personally extend an invitation to any undergraduate students you may know who are looking to present their research (can also be creative projects). We are trying to expand our conference to include regional institutions and I immediately thought of you. Basically, we include all disciplines from all colleges and have both poster and oral sessions open - we make quite a day out of it. Student registration would be $20 but that includes lunch and a parking pass for the day. I would be grateful if you could get the word out to any faculty mentors you know who may have interested students. If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot me off an Email or you can check out the conference website (below).
dawn.albertson@mnsu.edu <mailto:dawn.albertson@mnsu.edu>
http://grad.mnsu.edu/research/urc/
HEALTH PROFESSIONS FAIR - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Peace Corps on campus
UNIVERSITY OF MN,
The U of MN Continuing Education & Conference Center is located at: 1890 Buford Ave., St. Paul. Directions, map and parking information is available at: http://www.cce.umn.edu/conferencecenter/directions.html Pathways in Careers in the Biosciences*
*Thursday, March 13, 2008***
3:30 p.m. 7 p.m.
U of MN Continuing Education & Conference Center, St. Paul
An event sponsored by the MN Private Colleges Career Consortium
*Sign up at your **Career** **Center** by March 5 Limited Space Available *
Students have the opportunity to attend two sessions, each with 3-4 professionals with experience in a topic area. All speakers are alumni of MPCCC schools. Topic areas:
*Clinical Research/Regulatory Affairs*
* Food Science/Personal Care*
* Medical & Pharmaceutical Sales & Marketing*
* Research & Development/Lab Science*
WINTERFEST 2008
January 21-22, 2008 at the Waterloo Ramada Inn & five Sullivan Brothers convention Center, Waterloo, IA
Iowa Association of County Conservation Board System presents WINTERFEST 2008. Displays & information in a "mini job-fair" setting. Concurrent sessions scheduled include the following:
Nture & interpretive Trails, Sustainable Buildings, Playground Safety, Current Land Practices, Tourism, custermer Service, Public Buildings on A Budget, Weed Management, Points and Potsherds, Wetland Monitoring, Conflict Resolution, Concrete Short Course, Welding, Self Defense, Weed Co-ops, Recreational Trails, Buss on Honeybees, Hictory of Weather, "No child Left Insife", Prairie Forbs enhancement, Plant Seed I.D., Emergency Preparedness, Low Head Dames, and much, much more. For more information and registration contact
Robert Etzel, Director - 641-484-2231
Tama County Conservation
2283 Park Road
Toledo, IA 52342
tccb@tamacounty.org
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Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs!
I am a faculty member in the Institute's Master of Science (MS) and Master of Public Policy (MPP) Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) program. My colleagues and I are hosting an information session for prospective MS and MPP-STEP students at 12pm on Thursday, February 28. Please share this information with your students. If you and/or any of your colleagues would like to attend to learn more about the program to share with your students, you are more than welcome.
The MS program prepares students with science and engineering backgrounds and the MPP-STEP program prepares students with any undergraduate background to assume roles in public policy development, implementation, management, and leadership. For example, students are taught to analyze and design policies for appropriate promotion and oversight of science and technology regionally, nationally, and internationally. They explore the interactions between science & technology and society in interdisciplinary ways, with a problem-oriented (e.g. climate change) approach. To complement HHH courses, students are able to take additional coursework from a wide range of departments across the University of Minnesota, such as Natural Resources and Management, Conservation Biology, Management of Technology, Environmental Policy, Applied Economics, and Bioethics. MS and MPP-STEP graduates have a wealth of job opportunities available to them, and graduates end up in state and federal government (e.g. Department of Commerce, Energy policy analyst), business (e.g. 3M regulatory affairs), and non-profit (e.g. Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development policy analyst) policy positions.
The information session will take place in room 170 Humphrey Center, from 12-1:30pm on Thursday, February 28. Beverages and pizza will be served. Faculty, current students, and admissions staff will speak briefly and answer questions.
People can RSVP via our online form:
http://www2.hhh.umn.edu/forms/admissions_infosessions.html
Or email: HHHadmit@umn.edu; or via phone at 612-626-7229.
We would appreciate if you could share this information with your students and encourage them to attend to learn more about our MS and MPP-STEP programs. More information about the Humphrey Institute can be found on our website at www.hhh.umn.edu <http://www.hhh.umn.edu/>.
The 2008 NU Conference on Human Rights is excited to announce that New York Times Editorialist, Nicholas Kristof and G-I Net Founder, Mark Hanis, will be delivering the opening and closing addresses this year. We will also be joined by a host of
world-class panelists. Please visit our website: http://www.cics.northwestern .edu/NUCHRweb/index.html in order to see to a list of speakers and panelists as it is updated.
To apply to attend the Conference as a student delegate (including funding for travel and housing expenses) and for more information on NUCHR, please visit our website: http://www.cics.northwestern .edu/NUCHRweb/index.html . The application deadline has now been extended to Sunday, March 9th, 2008.
If you have any additional questions please feel free to contact the co-chairs of this year's conference, Elizabeth Nielsen and Gauthami Soma, via e-mail conferenceonhumanrights@u.northwestern.edu or phone 612.695.7944.
