Science and Mathematics Seminar Series


All seminars are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held from 4-5 pm in room 200 in the Marine and Natural Sciences building on the RWU campus; light refreshments are provided.
 
For maps and directions, please visit http://www.rwu.edu/about/maps/


Fall 2009

9/2/2009  
Meet Your Advisor BBQ (Math and Science majors - in front of MNS)
 
9/9/2009  
Health and Safety Training
MANDATORY for work-study and research students
note: this event will be held in CAS 157
 
9/16/2009  
TBD
 
9/23/2009  
Drs. Brian Wysor and David Taylor (RWU)
Learning to Bridge the World at the Bridge of the Americas:
A new winter session course in Panama
 
9/30/2009  
Student Research Opportunities and Graduate School information
 
10/7/2009  
MERCK/AAAS & Summer Scholars Student Research Presentations
see the symposium website for more information
 
10/14/2009  
Dr. Nicolai Konow (Brown University)
Innovation and disparity concepts in functional biology
 
10/21/2009  
Dr. Richard Primack (Boston University)
Climate change comes to Thoreau’s Concord: Effect on plants and birds.
 
10/28/2009  
Dr. Andy Rhyne (RWU)
Crawling to collapse: Ecologically unsound ornamental invertebrate fisheries
Note: this semianr starts at 4:30pm
 
11/4/2009  
Dr. Gregory Skomal (Mass. Marine Fisheries)
Revelations in shark ecology based on high-tech tagging
 
11/11/2009  
Chemistry Department's Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Biomaterials and How They Will Change Our Lives
Note: Seminar will start at 3:00 in CAS 157
 
11/18/2009  
Dr. Tracie Ferriera (U.Mass Dartmouth)
The role of the wnt gene pathway in cleft palate malformations
 
11/25/2009  
Thanksgiving Break - no seminar
 
12/2/2009  
Student research presentations