Lectures

Join us! Economics students who have taken part in the annual Senior Research Seminar will be showcasing their research. Refreshments will be served!

Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of law enforcement opened fire on students at Jackson State College, a historically Black college in Jackson, Mississippi. Twenty-eight seconds later two young people lay dead, another 12 injured. Based on her most recent book, this talk led by Professor of History Nancy Bristow will situate this event in the broader history of the struggle for African American freedom in the civil rights and Black Power eras, and the ongoing crisis of police violence.

Lecture by Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street. The book explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States and focuses on San Francisco’s Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present.

Monthly “encounters” with migrants at the US-Mexico border remain near record levels, but what does that mean? Who is crossing the US southern border and why? What’s happening to those who are not permitted to cross? What are the impacts of US immigration policy both here and abroad? Professor Monica DeHart will address how shifting politics in Latin America are impacting the demographics and scale of the current immigration crisis while also questioning the ethics and efficacy of US government responses.

The Resistance: How Genes can Protect from Deadly Infectious Disease

Fatou Joof, Postdoctoral Researcher, Seattle Children's Hospital - Center for Global Infectious Disease Research

Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency

Dr. Madison Cox ('15), Bioinformatician, University of Washington - School of Medicine

Greg Groggel '06 likes to tell stories, and as the four-time Emmy-winning executive producer of the Netflix hit, "The Redeem Team," he's transfixed an international audience with an up-close account of how America's Olympic basketball team unified and returned to the world arena to reclaim its 2008 Gold medal after a devastating defeat four years earlier. You don't have to be a basketball fan to enjoy Groggel's story of how LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, and Kobe Bryant, met the challenge along with the masterful Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski.

It's getting hot in here: how modern environments can help us understand ancient examples of climate change

Rachel Havranek, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Earth and Spatial Sciences, University of Idaho

Toxic Algal Blooms in Local Lakes. Jeff Tepper, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Geology, University of Puget Sound.

PFAS: The Forever Chemical. Sean Smith, Environmental Planner, Washington State Department of Ecology.