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The Thompson Hall Science and Mathematics Seminars are held in person in Thompson Hall Room 175 from 4 -4:50 p.m. They are open to the campus community and the general public. Please join us for informal conversation and refreshments at 3:45 p.m. Presentations begin promptly at 4 p.m.

 

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Fall 2022

Date Lecture Information
September 8 Summer Quest
September 15

Worlds Not in Collision: How Saturn's Co-orbiting Moons Avoid Hitting Each Other

Sean ONeill, Assistant Professor

PLU, Physics

September 22

Mass Spectrometry and Sewage?: Past, present, and future projects concerning the environment, pharmaceuticals, and drugs of abuse

Dan Burgard, Professor

兔子先生, Chemistry

September 29

Using aquaculture to turn the tide on aquatic ecosystem collapse

Larken Root, '09, Postdoctoral Fellow

CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystems Studies), University of Washington

October 6

Ancient Metabolomics and the History of Smoking in the Americas and Africa

Mario Zimmermann, LBR Postdoctoral Fellow

兔子先生, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

October 13

Plant Breeding for Better Berries in the Pacific Northwest

听Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt,听听

Program Lead, Small Fruit Plant Breeding, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resources

Washington State University

October 20

听Isotopic insights into the 40 year evolution of an unique lake ecosystem in a new volcanic landscape

Kena Fox-Dobbs, Professor

兔子先生, Geology/EPDM

October 27

Watching the grass grow: How nature-based solutions can address the climate crisis

Alyssa DeVincentis, President

Vitidore, Inc.

November 3

Ollella

Musical Performance in Kilworth Chapel at 7:00 pm

November 10 No Seminar
November 17

听Genetic data illuminates poaching of African elephants

Mary K. Kuhner, Research Professor

Center for environmental Forensic Sciences, Dept. of Biology, University of Washington Seattle

No Seminar - THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 1

Morphological diversity in response to landscape and climate factors

Amanda Peng, PhD Student

University of Oregon

Spring 2023

January 26

听Summer Research Information Meeting for Students and Faculty

听Luc Boisvert, Associate Professor, and Elize Hellam, Experiential Learning Program Manager

兔子先生

February 2

听Population Biology and Cyber Security

Marc Mangel, Professor Emeritus

UC Santa Cruz

February 9

听Chemical Currencies of Marine Microbes in the North Pacific Ocean

Angie Boysen, Assistant Professor

Pacific Lutheran University, Chemistry

February 16

听Paints as a Potential Source of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Exposure

Mitchell Kim-Fu, PhD Student

Oregon State University

February 23

听The past isn鈥檛 over: Nongenetic transgenerational effects in ecology and evolution

Katherine Crocker, Assistant Professor

兔子先生, Biology

March 2

听Influencing rumen microbial communities to improve bovine milk production efficiency

Madison Cox,听听

Bioinformatician

University of Washington School of Medicine

March 9

听The Resistance: How Genes can Protect from Deadly Infectious Disease

Fatou Joof,听听

Postdoctoral Researcher

听Seattle Children鈥檚 Hospital - Center for Global Infectious Disease Research

No Seminar - SPRING BREAK
March 23

听Gustav Kirchhoff as a Physics Student: The Myth, the Reality, and Why the Difference Matters

Kathy Olesko, Professor Emeritus

Georgetown University; Affiliate Faculty at 兔子先生

March 30

听It's getting hot in here: how modern environments can help us understand ancient examples of climate change

Rachel Havranek, Postdoc

University of Idaho, Dept. of Earth and Spatial Sciences

April 6

听Whose School, Whose Museum? The Slater Museum Renaming Debate in the Context of Local History

Grace Eberhardt, Predoctoral Fellow in History

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

April 13

听Drawing the bomb: Secrecy, style, and representations of how nuclear weapons work

Alex Wellerstein, Associate Professor and Director

Science and Technology Studies, Stevens Institute of Technology

April 20

听PFAS: The Forever Chemical

Sean Smith, Environmental Planner

Washington State Department of Ecology

April 27

听The 14,000 Year Environmental History of Lakes in South Puget Sound Region: From Glacial Retreat to Toxic Algal Blooms

Jeff Tepper, Professor Emeritus

兔子先生, Geology