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Provost’s Graduate Student Lecture Series, 2009-2010

November 2009
Thursday, 11/12 4:00-5:00 SAC 305
Rachel Kalish, Sociology
Sexual and Intimate Behaviors among College Students

Wednesday, 11/18 1:00-2:00 Wang Chapel
Seth Offenbach, History
Twilight in America: The Birth of Ronald Reagan and Contemporary Conservatism

December 2009
Wednesday, 12/9 1:00-2:00 SBU 236
Yevgen Borodin, Computer Science
Bridging the Web Accessibility Divide: A Vision for a Universally
Accessible Web

Thursday, 12/17 4:00-5:00 Wang Chapel
Jennifer Guerriero, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Targeting Cell Death and Immunity for Cancer Treatment

January 2010 (one lecture only)
Wednesday, 1/20 1:00-2:00 Wang Chapel
Joseph Sertich, Anatomical Sciences
Crocodyliforms and Cretaceous Gondwanan Biogeography

February 2010
Wednesday, 2/10 1:00-2:00 Wang Chapel
Andreana Leskovjan, Biomedical Engineering
Lack of Metal in Mouse Plaques Points to a Link in Neurodegeneration in Human Alzheimer’s Disease

Wednesday, 2/24 1:00-2:00 Wang Chapel
Nicholas Navin, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Inferring Tumor Progression from Genomic Heterogeneity

March 2010
Wednesday, 3/17 1:00-2:00 Javits Room, E-2320 Melville Library
Samuel Butler, Philosophy
Autonomy and Cathected Labor

Thursday, 3/25 4:00-5:00 Wang Chapel
Jinsheng Wen, Materials Science
Neutron Scattering Studies on the Interplay between Magnetism and Superconductivity in High Tc

April 2010
Wednesday, 4/7 1:00-2:00 Javits Room, E2320 Melville Library
Andrea Baden, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences
It Takes a Village: Communal Infant Care and Socialization in Wild Ruffed Lemurs

Thursday, 4/15 4:00-5:00 Javits Room, E-2320 Melville Library
Sarah Gray, Ecology and Evolution
Inside the Leaves of Pitcher Plants: Tools for Understanding Community Ecology and Species Invasions

May 2010
Thursday, 5/6 4:00-5:00 Wang Chapel
Lyudmila Razumova, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Literary Bilingualism as Cosmopolitan Practice

Thursday, 5/13 4:00-5:00 Wang Chapel
Joe Lachance, Genetics
Inbreeding, Fibonacci Constants, and the Most Recent Common Ancestor of Humanity