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| Fall 2009 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Eric Henderson, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University |
| "Biologically Inspired Nanotechnology" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, September 18 |
| Life After Drake Series |
| Dr. Angela J. Grippo, Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
| "Life as a Bulldog: How Drake Shaped My Career as a Psychologist" |
| Drake University Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main, 7:00-9:00pm, Wednesday, September 30 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Michael Young, Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, IL |
| "New methodologies for the study of causal choice: Enemy identification in a video game" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, October 9 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Timothy Urness, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Drake University |
| "Visualizing Scientific Data with Computer Graphics" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, November 6 |
| Spring 2009 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Charles Nelson, Astronomy and Physics Department, Drake University |
| "The Kinematics of Ionized Gas in Nearby Quasars" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, February 27th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Victor Ryzhov, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University |
| "Mass Spectrometry: From Fundamental Studies to Biological Applications" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, March 27th |
| Ridge 2000 Distinguished Lecturer Series, Sponsored by NSF and presented by DUSCI |
| Dr. Dana Yoerger, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA |
| "Exploring the Deep Sea with ROBOTS" |
| Olin 206, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 8th |
| The Sixth Annual Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (DUCURS) |
| Parents Hall, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p. m., Thursday, April 16 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. John Gitua, Chemistry Department, Drake University |
| "The Fight against Malaria in Endemic Countries: Challenges and Opportunities" |
| Bulldog Theatre, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ,Tuesday, April 21st |
| Fall 2008 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Bradley Brennan, Drake graduate (AS '05) and Ph. D. candidate at Arizona State University |
| "Global Sustainability: Energy in the 21st Century" |
| Meredith 101, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, September 12th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Duane Rumbaugh, Great Ape Trust of Iowa, Des Moines |
| "Emergents and a New Behaviorism: How we, apes, and, yes, even monkeys, birds, dogs, and cats(?) can be |
| clever and creative" |
| Bulldog Theatre, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, October 10th |
| Life After Drake Series |
| Dr. Paul Bush, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Ankeny, Iowa |
| "Life After Drake" Following an Educational Path to Fulfillment |
| Drake University Sheslow Auditorium, Old Main, 7:00-9:00pm, Wednesday, November 12th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Alexander Kleiner, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Drake University |
| “One Person-One Vote Two Mathematical Interpretations” |
| Meredith 101, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, November 21st |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Mike Greenlief, University of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, MO |
| "Chemistry at Low Pressures – Formation of Organic Monolayers" |
| Meredith 101, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, December 5th |
| Spring 2008 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Math and Computer Science Department and DUSCI |
| Dr. Jim Mitroy, Faculty of Technology, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia |
| "Positron Binding to Atoms and Molecules" |
| HI 28, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. , Tuesday, February 12 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Dmitry A. Kondrashov, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| "Dynamics of protein structures in X-ray crystallography and computational models" |
| Olin 101, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. , Thursday, March 27 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Jason Grout, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| "Sage: free open-source software for mathematics" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, April 4 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Janice Buss, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| University of Kentucky Lexington, KY |
| "An Intracellular Odyssey: the travels of HRas within the cell" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, April 11 |
| Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (DUCURS) |
| Parents Hall, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p. m., Thursday, April 17 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Charles Murrin, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE |
| "Brain development: who is in charge?" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, May 2 |
| Fall 2007 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. David Senchina, Biology Department, Drake University |
| "Echinacea as a Potential Therapy for Offsetting Declines in Immune Function during Preseason Training in College Athletes" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, September 14th |
| Luther W. Stalnaker Lecture |
| Dr. Luz Maria DeAlba, Computer Science and Mathematics Department, Drake University |
| "Combinatorial Matrix Theory: Origins and Applications” |
| Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main at 7:00 pm, Tuesday, September 18 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Norbert Pienta, Chemistry Department, The University of Iowa |
| "Using Technology to Study Student Problem Solving in Chemistry" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, September 21st |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Christopher R. Field, Drake graduate and Ph. D. candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| "Towards Navigating the Forest of Interactions in a Neutrophil: Studying Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction Kinetics using |
| an Acoustically Levitated Drop Reactor for In Stillo Measurements" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, October 19th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Erin Anderson, Sarah Arlien and Dave Ehresmann, BCMB majors |
| "Summer 2007 Research at the NASA Ames Research Laboratory" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, October 26th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Daniel M. Quinn, Department of Chemistry, The University of Iowa, Iowa City |
| "Chimeric Inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase – New Agents for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, November 15th |
| Spring 2007 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Michelle Alexander, Rahul Parsa (Ph.D. in Business), Dr. Maria Valdovinos, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department |
| "Psychotropic Medication Use in Fragile X Syndrome: Analysis of Side Effects" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, February 9th |
| NHI/ NSF update sponsored by DUSCI |
| Jayne M. Smith, Director of Sponsored Programs |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, February 23rd |
| Life After Drake Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Ann Hornschemeier, Deputy Project Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD |
| "From Drake University to X-rays in Space" |
| Cline 206 , 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 2nd (RESCHEDULED for Bad weather) |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Math and Computer Science Department and DUSCI |
| Casey O'Donnell, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| "Culturally Situated Design Tools and Virtual DJ - Math Education and Inner City Youth" |
| Click here for more information about this talk |
| Howard 111, 3:15 p. m. -4:20 p. m. , Thursday, March 1st |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Casey O'Donnell, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| "Breaking (into) the Video Game Industry: Work, Play, and the Global Economy" |
| Click here for more information about this talk |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, March 2nd |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Paul Kogerler, Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| "Molecular magnets from giant clusters" |
| HI 19B, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Thursday, March 8th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Aliasger K. Salem, Assistant professor, Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| "Tissue Engineering and Gene " |
| Cline 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, March 9th |
| Drake University Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Sciences (DUCURS) |
| Parents Hall, Thursday, March 29th |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Mark Vitha, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department |
| "Koalas, Kookaburras, Kangaroos, and Chemistry Down Under: Fluorescent Studies of the Effect of Cholesterol on Lipid Vesicles" |
| Olin 206, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, April 13th |
| Fall 2006 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Philippe Buhlmann, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, MN |
| "Chemical Sensors to Monitor the Human Body and the Environment on Earth and Mars" |
| Olin Hall, Room 206, 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. , Thursday, September 21 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Pharmaceutical Science Department and DUSCI |
| Dr. Brian Lenzmeier, Assistant Professor of Biology, Buena Vista University |
| "Using yeast to uncover sources of human chromosome fragility and instability" |
| HI, Room 19B , 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. , Friday, September 22 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Pharmaceutical Science Department and DUSCI |
| Dr. Shawn Ellerbroek, Assistant Professor of Chemistry/Biochemistry Wartburg College |
| "SGEF and RhoG, a cool way to ruffle" |
| HI, Room 19B, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 26 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Biology Department |
| Dr. Michael Pentella, Public Health Medical Microbiologist, The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory |
| "Mumps in Iowa 2006: The lab response." |
| Olin Hall, Room 206, 3:00 pm, Friday, October 6 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Erin Cole, Nick Bennett, Evan Ball and Mary Kay Caniglia |
| These students will describe their projects sponsored by the DUSCI Summer Research Program |
| Olin Hall, Room 101, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., Friday, October 13 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Biology Department |
| June Olds: Riordan Veterinary Clinic & Des Moines Zoo |
| Olin Hall, Room 206, 3:00 pm, Friday, October 20 |
| DUSCI student committee |
| Dr. Kelli H. Ponzer, LS, CLGS, Industrial Lubricating Oils & Greases, Products Research & Technology. Exxon Mobil |
| She will talk about careers in industry |
| Fitch Hall, Room 208, 2:30 p. m. - 3:30 p. m., Monday, October 23 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Biology Department |
| Dr. Amy Wisniewski |
| Olin Hall, Room 206, 3:00 pm, Friday, November 3 |
| Drake University Science Colloquium Series, sponsored by DUSCI |
| Dr. Amy Wisniewski,, Natalie Greco, Michelle Reinke, Andrea Schwager, Sarah Cooper and Kayla Hatt |
| "The Use of Science and Technology for Reducing Methamphetamine Use in Teens and Young Adults" |
| Olin Hall, Room 101, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., Friday, November 17 |
| Departmental Series, sponsored by Pharmaceutical Science Department |
| Brian Lenzmeier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Buena Vista University |
| "Inhibition of viral replication using rationally designed DNA binding" |
| HI, Room 19B, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Friday, December 1 |
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