NATURAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIA SERIES
                                                2002-2003 Fall Semester
 
September 6

Prof. Narendra Jaggi
Illinois Wesleyan University
" Physics and Sociology: Revisiting the Celebrated Schelling Model of Neighborhood Racial Segregation"

(Host: LewDetweiler)

October 4

Dr. Amit Basu
Brown University
"Soaps, Sugars and Skin Cancer"
 
 

(Host: Ram Mohan)

November 1

Dr. Ashok Bhatia 
Abbott Research Labs 
"Drug Discovery to Commercial Reality:A Chemist's Perspective" 
 

(Host: Ram Mohan) 

September 13
 

Prof. Stephen Hoffman 
Illinois Wesleyan University
"Binding of Trace Metals to Organic Matter in Rivers" 
 
 

(Host: Given Harper)

October 11
 

Prof. David Bollivar
Illinois Wesleyan University
"Genes to Enzymes:  Expression and assay of bacterial pigment biosynthesis
enzymes"
 

 (Host: Bruce Criley)

November 8

Prof. Jacqueline Krim
North Carolina State University

""On the atomic-scale origins of friction: What once was
old is new again"
 
 

(Host: Narendra Jaggi)

September 20
 

IWU Faculty Colloquium
Prof. Paul Bushnell
" The Search for Lane Seminary"
 
 
 

(Host: Janet McNew)

October 18
 
 
 

Fall Break
 
 
 
 

 

November 15

IWU Faculty Colloquium
Prof. Charles Springwood
"Choreographing Colonialism, Crafting the Native American: From Cigar Store Indians to Athletic Totems) 
 

(Host: Janet McNew)

September 27
 

Kimberly Branshaw
Applied Materials, CA
 

" State-of-the-art in Semiconductor Manufacturing"
 
 
 

(Host: Narendra Jaggi)

 
October 25
 

 Natural Science Colloquium to inaugurate Wilma A. Beckman auditorium 
Dr. Jacqueline Barton, Caltech
" DNA: A Different Perspective"
 
 

(Host: Minor Myers Jr.)

November 22

Dr. Bruno Pernet
University of Washington

"Annelidology for echinodermatologists: New perspectives on the evolution of larval feeding in marine invertebrates"

(Host: Will Jaeckle)