2018-19
Science Speakers 2018-2019
| Date | Event |
| Sep 17 | Celebrate Science! We celebrate the scientific activities Goshen College students engaged in last year, and hopefully entice many to engage in such activities this year. |
| Sep 26 | Global South Voices on Climate Change As North Americans, we need to hear the stories directly from our brothers and sisters around the world to understand how they are experiencing climate change, and how we can walk with them in the challenges that this brings. Speakers are Zacarías Arecio Bernabé Martínez (El Salvador), Dr. Sibonokuhle Ncube (Zimbabwe), and Durga Sunchiuri (Nepal). |
| Oct 8 | Agriculture: Science Working for the World Dr. John Rupe, Professor of Plant Pathology, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences, University of Arkansas. |
| Oct 12 | Biological Invasions & Novel Species Interactions in Aquatic Ecosystems Dr. Lauren M. Pintor, Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology, School of Environment & Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. |
| Oct 12 | Will We Conserve Before We Have To? Tales From Bhutan And Other Studies Dr. Jeremy S. Brooks, Assistant Professor, School of Environment & Natural Resources, The Ohio State University. |
| Oct 26 | To Pee or Not to Pee: Rehabilitation Following Spinal Cord Injury Maria Jantz, PhD student, Rehabilitation and Neural Engineering Labs, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. |
| Nov 2 | Integrated Deer Management in Indiana: An Adaptive Research Framework Dr. Rob Swihart, Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University |
| Nov 9 | Student Science Speakers Yazan Meqbil, Investigation of the methyltransferase activity of TAEI on the N-terminus of 24 S. cerevisiae ORFs Erin Bontrager, Enhancing Chemotherapy Response of Nab-Paclitaxel Through Angiogenesis Inhibition |
| Nov 14 | Enhancing Nab-paclitaxel-based Chemotherapy Response: Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Pancreatic Cancer Dr. Niranjan Awasthi, Senior Research Professor of Surgery, IU School of Medicine-South Bend. |
| Nov 16 | Luke Skywalker meets Luigi Galvani: Restoring movement following spinal cord injury with a combination of 18th and 21st century technology Lee Miller, Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University |
| Nov 16 | Ketogenic Diet and Some Applications Kelsey Herwick, Beacon Health System |
| Nov 19 | Nutrition for College Students Sarah Kittle, graduate student at Ball State University |
| Nov 30 | AbbVie Centralized Medicinal Chemistry: Strategies and Tactics to Deliver Drug Candidates for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis Philip R. Kym, PH.D., Senior Director of Chemistry, Centralized Medicinal Chemistry (CMeC), AbbVie. |
| Dec 5 | Computer Science Capstone Projects
Esteban Montoya: The Advent of the Quantum Computer – is our Cybersecurity Ready? Kartikeya Sharma: “Why Big Data Analytics should be an integral part of Accounting?” Yedidiya Zewdu: Technology in K-12 Education: What is the present use of Educational Technology? Mikol Aspinwall:Taking Back the Smart Home: On the Subject of Methods to Decentralize Traditional “Smart Device” Ecosystems Patryk Ostrowski: How does artificial intelligence affect human behavior? Christian Stoltzfus: Digital Jesus: The Church and Social Media Logan Swartzendruber: From Logic Circuits to i7 Intel Processors. |
| Jan 16 | Wind and Solar: Integrating Renewable Energy on the Electric Grid James Loewen, Senior Analyst and Project Manager, California Public Utilities Commission (retired) |
| Jan 25 | Stewards Tending the Land Steve Thomas, Pathways Retreat, Goshen, Indiana |
| Feb 15 | Trees for a Changing Climate Aaron Sawatsky Kingsley, City Forester, City of Goshen |
| Mar 8 | Haptic Displays: Bringing the Sense of Touch into Touchscreen Interaction Becca Fenton Friesen is a GC grad, and currently a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. |
| Mar 13 | Species, Phylogeny, and Mass Extinctions in Deep Time Reuben Ng, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa |
| Mar 25 | Harnessing the Dipole Nature of Strained Ring Systems: Development of New Strategies to Treat Congenital and Neurodegenerative Cognitive Disorders Brandon L. Ashfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame |
| Mar 27 | Planning for the Future in Michiana: Solar, Electric Vehicles, Bike Trails, and More Leah Thill, Senior Environmental Planner, Michiana Area Council of Governments (MACOG) |
| Mar 29 | Watching Stars Evolve…in a Supercomputer Reuben Budiardja, Computational Scientist at Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Apr 1 | Teaming Up to Drive Scientific Discoveries that Matter to Women Dr. Janis Miller, Research Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences |
| Apr 5 | Student Science Speakers Evan Beck, Adventures in Brain Tumor Research Yichen Wang, Immunotherapy Research at UCL |
| Apr 12 | Inside the Proton Paul E. Reimer, Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. |
| May 10 | Neutrino Physics Erica Snider, staff scientist at Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) |
| May 10 | Out and About in Physics Erica Snider, staff scientist at Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) |