Upcoming Science-related Events
Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777
1. Klemperer to Discuss Intermolecular Forces
2. College of Education and Human Development Research Discussion Topics Announced
3. The Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Spring 2006 Hitchner Seminar Series
4. Mitchell Center Spring 2006 Seminar Series
Klemperer to Discuss Intermolecular Forces
Contact: Leisa Preble (207) 581-1016; David Munson (207) 581-3777
The UMaine Department of Physics and Astronomy and the UMaine Department of Chemistry will present William Klemperer, Erving Research Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.
Klemperer’s talk, Making and Breaking of Weak Bonds: Intermolecular Forces” is scheduled for Friday, April 14, 2006 at 3:10 p.m. in the Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium at the Engineering and Science Research Building on the UMaine campus in Orono, Maine.
William Klemperer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards from the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society, as well as of the Faraday Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry. His research interests lie in the area of molecular structure, energy transfer, and intermolecular forces, and he helped to found the field of interstellar chemistry.
2. College of Education and Human Development Research Discussion Topics Announced
ORONO, Maine — The College of Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium begins Friday, Feb. 10. The intent is to provide a forum for College faculty to share and discuss their research — planned, in process or recently completed — and to learn from each other.
The seminars are held from 2-3 p.m. on various Fridays in 159 Shibles Hall. Members of the campus community and general public are welcome to attend.
The colloquium series includes:
April 21 — “School size and the ‘power rating’ of poverty: Substantive finding or statistical artifact?”
May 5 — “Growth rates in aerobic performance by children in grades 4-8,” Steve Butterfield, Bob Lehnhard, Craig Mason.
May 19 — “Comparing instructional modes: One element of physics education research,” Michael Wittmann.
3. The Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Spring 2006 Hitchner Seminar Series.
Seminars are on FRIDAY at 2:10 PM in 203 Hitchner Hall (unless noted otherwise).
April 14
Rolf Karlstrom University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Hedgehog signaling, neural patterning, and axon guidance in the zebrafish forebrain.”
April 28
Craig Malbon School of Medicine SUNY/Stony Brook
“G proteins in Development: not getting “frazzled” about Frizzleds”.
May 5
Craig Montel The Johns Hopkins University Medical School
“TRP channels: roles in sensory signaling and in heath and disease”
4. Mitchell Center Spring 2006 Seminar Series
Seminars are sponsored by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research and the UMaine Program in Ecology and Environmental Science. Seminars are free and open to all.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2006
Continued Development of a Fish Assemblage Assessment Method for Non-Wadeable Large Rivers in Maine and New England: 2002-2005
Speaker: Chris O. Yoder, Research Director, Center for Applied Bioassessment and Biocriteria, Midwest Biodiversity Institute.
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006
Does Descaling Impair Osmoregualtion in Seawater-Challenged Atlantic Salmon Smolts with Gayle Zydlewski, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine,
and
Sturgeon Habitat in the Lower Penobscot River with Stephen Fernandes, University of Maine.
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2006
Water Quality of the Penobscot River
Barry Mower, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
All seminars take place at 12 noon in Norman Smith Hall at the UMaine campus in Orono. If you need parking permits and/or directions, please contact Ruth Hallsworth at 207/581-3196. Additional information is available at
http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/outreach/lecture_series.htm.