The Thompson Hall Science and Mathematics Seminars are held in person in Thompson Hall Room 175 from 4 -4:50 p.m. They are open to the campus community and the general public. Please join us for informal conversation and refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Presentations begin promptly at 4 p.m.
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September 8 |
Summer Quest |
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September 15 |
Worlds Not in Collision: How Saturn's Co-orbiting Moons Avoid Hitting Each Other Sean ONeill, Assistant Professor PLU, Physics |
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September 22 |
Mass Spectrometry and Sewage?: Past, present, and future projects concerning the environment, pharmaceuticals, and drugs of abuse Dan Burgard, Professor University of Puget Sound, Chemistry |
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September 29 |
Using aquaculture to turn the tide on aquatic ecosystem collapse Larken Root, '09, Postdoctoral Fellow CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystems Studies), University of Washington |
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October 6 |
Ancient Metabolomics and the History of Smoking in the Americas and Africa Mario Zimmermann, LBR Postdoctoral Fellow University of Puget Sound, Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
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October 13 |
Ancient Metabolomics and the History of Smoking in the Americas and Africa Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt, Program Lead, Small Fruit Plant Breeding, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resources Washington State University |
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October 20 |
Isotopic insights into the 40 year evolution of an unique lake ecosystem in a new volcanic landscape Kena Fox-Dobbs, Professor University of Puget Sound, Geology/EPDM |
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October 27 |
Watching the grass grow: How nature-based solutions can address the climate crisis Alyssa DeVincentis, President Vitidore, Inc. |
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November 3 |
Ollella Musical Performance in Kilworth Chapel at 7:00 pm |
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November 10 |
No Seminar |
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November 17 |
Genetic data illuminates poaching of African elephants Mary K. Kuhner, Research Professor Center for environmental Forensic Sciences, Dept. of Biology, University of Washington Seattle |
| Thanksgiving | |
| December 1 |
Morphological diversity in response to landscape and climate factors Amanda Peng, PhD Student University of Oregon |
| January 26 |
Summer Research Information Meeting for Students and Faculty Luc Boisvert, Associate Professor, and Elize Hellam, Experiential Learning Program Manager University of Puget Sound |
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| February 2 |
"Population Biology and Cyber Security" Marc Mangel, Professor Emeritus UC Santa Cruz |
| February 9 |
Chemical Currencies of Marine Microbes in the North Pacific Ocean Angie Boysen, Assistant Professor Pacific Lutheran University, Chemistry |
| February 16 |
Paints as a Potential Source of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Exposure Mitchell Kim-Fu, PhD Student Oregon State University |
| February 23 |
The past isn’t over: Nongenetic transgenerational effects in ecology and evolution Katherine Crocker, Assistant Professor University of Puget Sound, Biology |
| March 2 |
Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency Madison Cox, Bioinformatician University of Washington School of Medicine |
| March 9 |
The Resistance: How Genes can Protect from Deadly Infectious Disease Fatou Joof, Postdoctoral Researcher Seattle Children’s Hospital - Center for Global Infectious Disease Research |
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SPRING BREAK |
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| March 23 |
Gustav Kirchhoff as a Physics Student: The Myth, the Reality, and Why the Difference Matters Kathy Olesko, Professor Emeritus Georgetown University; Affiliate Faculty at University of Puget Sound |
| March 30 |
It's getting hot in here: how modern environments can help us understand ancient examples of climate change Rachel Havranek, Postdoc University of Idaho, Dept. of Earth and Spatial Sciences |
| April 6 |
Whose School, Whose Museum? The Slater Museum Renaming Debate in the Context of Local History Grace Eberhardt, Predoctoral Fellow in History University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign |
| April 13 |
Drawing the bomb: Secrecy, style, and representations of how nuclear weapons work Alex Wellerstein, Associate Professor and Director Science and Technology Studies, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| April 20 |
PFAS: The Forever Chemical Sean Smith, Environmental Planner Washington State Department of Ecology |
| April 27 |
The 14,000 Year Environmental History of Lakes in South Puget Sound Region: From Glacial Retreat to Toxic Algal Blooms Jeff Tepper, Professor Emeritus University of Puget Sound, Geology |