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2017-18

Fall 2017-18

Date Title
Speaker (Sponsor)
Fri
Sep 8
Celebrate Science!
GC Science Faculty and Students (David Housman)
Fri
Sep 15
Drug Discovery: Challenges in Identifying a Curative Regimen for Hepatitis C Infection
David B. Olsen, Distinguished Scientist, Neglected Tropical Disease Discovery Lead, Merck & Co. (Doug Schrich)
Fri
Sep 22
Drivers of modularity in plant-pollinator networks of montane meadows
Lydia Miller, Goshen College Mathematics major (David Housman)
Wed
Sep 27
Local mosquito vector biology: species diversity, population dynamics, & viral genetics
Dr. Andy Ammons, Associate Professor of Biology, Goshen College (Ryan Sensenig)
Tue
Oct 3 3:00pm
Cyberbullying Project
Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Jeanette Shown)
Wed
Oct 11
Mutualisms: building blocks of ecological communities
Dr. Juan Carlos Ruiz Guajardo, Department of Evolution & Ecology, University of California, Davis
Visiting International Scholar – Fall 2017, Goshen College (Ryan Sensenig)
Fri
Oct 13
Effects of forest biological and physical structure on carbon storage in mixed and single-species dominated stands, Mark Krieder, Goshen College Student
Using CRISPR-Cas9 to Edit the Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans, Joel Gerig, Goshen College Student (Jody Saylor)
Fri
Oct 27
The Obesity Epidemic: Polar Bears, Blue Light, and Fecal Transplants?
Dr. Michelle Shelly, MD, Family Practice Physician, Goshen Physicians Family Medicine (Ryan Sensenig)
Fri
Nov 3 4:30pm
Autonomous Container Ships
Richard Bowers (Jeanette Shown)
Fri
Nov 10
Integrating Community Knowledge: Citizen Science Geography for Researching Flooding and Disaster Management in Hopkins, Belize
Brenner Burkholder, Goshen College Student
Testing a New Model for Disease Research: Human Kidneys and Stem Cells
Nate O’Leary, Goshen College Student (Jody Saylor)
Wed
Nov 15
Diversity in a Hoosier Rural Medicine Practice
Dr. Lilly S. Bontrager, MD, Parkview First Care Noble Campus, Kendallville, IN (Ryan Sensenig)
Fri
Nov 17
The Synuclein Family of Proteins and Parkinson’s Disease
Jon Williams, Post-doctoral Researcher, Jean Baum Lab, Rutger’s University (Doug Schirch)
Fri
Dec 1
Understanding the Universe in the Age of Precision Cosmology
Noah Weaver-Dyck, graduate student, University of Michigan (Paul Meyer-Reimer)

Spring/May 2017-18

Date Title
Speaker (Sponsor)
Fri
Feb 2 10:00am
Career Paths: Legal Sector Employment Options for Environmental Science/Hard Science Majors
Joel King, J.D. , Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan (Ryan Sensenig)
Wed
Mar 7
Dr. Jimmy Orjala, Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, The University of Illinois at Chicago (Ryan Sensenig)
Wed
Apr 4
Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Statistics: What are they and why do they matter to all teachers?
Christina Zumbrun, Trine University (Sara Patrick)
Fri
Apr 13
Nutrition, the integrating discipline: Of nutrients, infections, babies, and public purpose
Dr. Rebecca Stoltzfus
Professor of Biology, President, Goshen College (Ryan Sensenig)