Science Without Limits

The mission of this series is to ignite a passionate effort to broaden participation in science at all levels. By making innovative scientific research accessible and relevant to a wide audience this series seeks to increase participation in the physical and natural sciences among all groups, particularly those that have been historically underrepresented.

The series will bring two speakers to campus each semester. One of these speakers will be a senior scholar whose work in science has wide appeal. The other will be a junior scientist who can serve as a role model for students who are contemplating a future in the sciences.

September 24, 2007

Dr. Alex Jordan, Lausanne Post-doctoral Fellow in Biology, Willamette University

Dr. Alex Jordan is a biologist whose research focuses on sexual selection, behavioral and chemical ecology. The salt marsh caterpillar Estigmene acrea serves as the model organism for his work. Dr. Jordan received his Ph.D. in Biology from Wake Forest University. His appointment as a Lausanne Post-doctoral Fellow at Willamette University recognizes his outstanding research and his commitment to enhancing diversity at the college level.

The Effects of Dietary Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids on the Developmental Biology and Reproductive Behavior of the Salt Marsh Moth

Monday, September 24, 2007, 4 p.m.

Biology Department Seminar

BoDine 110

October 8, 2007

Dr. Willie Pearson, Chair of the School of History, Technology and Society in Ivan Allen College, Georgia Technological Institute

Dr. Willie Pearson is a nationally recognized scholar in the sociology of science. He is the author of six books including “White Society and Colorless Science: A Study of Universalism in American Science” and, most recently, “Beyond Small Numbers: Voices of African American Ph.D. Chemists.” Dr. Pearson has served on advisory boards of many organizations including the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. In 2001 he was honored as a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in American Public Schools

Monday, October 8, 2007, 4 p.m.

Sociology and Anthropology Department Seminar

Howard Hall Room 132

Who Will do Science? Educating the Next Generation

Monday, October 8, 2007, 5:30 p.m.

Templeton Campus Center, Council Chamber

February 7-8, 2008

This event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule Dr. Jackson's visit soon.

Dr. Trachette Jackson, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Dr. Trachette Jackson is a mathematical biologist with research interests in the application of mathematical modeling to biomedical systems, such as tumor biology, chemotherapeutic strategies, and cell signaling. In 1999, she was a John Hope Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University and a Visiting Scientist at National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory at the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2003, she received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.

Using Mathematics to Understand Tumor Development and Improve Cancer Treatment

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 7 p.m.

Templeton Student Center

Council Chamber

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Mathematical Models of Tumor-Induced Angiogeneis

Friday, February 8, 2008, 3:00 pm

Howard Hall Room 132

March 13, 2008

Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon

Dr. Richmond received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Kansas State University and her Ph.D. in chemical physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research using laser spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations has focused on understanding the chemistry and physics that occurs at complex surfaces and interfaces that have relevance to important problems in energy production, environmental remediation, atmospheric chemistry and biomolecular surfaces.

She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). Her recent awards include the Spectrochemical Analysis Award of the American Chemical Society (2002), the Spiers Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2004) and a Guggenheim Fellow (2007).

She is also the founder and chair of COACh (Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists), an organization assisting in the advancement of women faculty in the sciences. Richmond has served and continues to serve on many science boards and advisory panels, including the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Board of the Department of Energy (1998-2003) and the State of Oregon Board of Higher Education (1999-2006).

Going Nonlinear to Study Surfaces of Environmental Importance

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 11:30 a.m.

Chemistry Department Seminar

Miller 102

The Magic and Mysteries of Water

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 3:30 p.m.

Council Chamber, Templeton Center

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Gender Studies Symposium

This series is supported by the Office of the Dean of CAS, the President's Office, the Sociology and Anthropology Department, the Biology Department, the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the Gender Symposium, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.