Science Speakers and Roundtable Fall 2002

Date	Speaker and/or Topic
Sep 4	Roundtable discussion of recruitment
Sep 11	Matt Rissler, Stopping the Scam Artist Tricia Kurtz, Development of an ELISA to Quantitiate GPI-PLD in Human Serum
Sep 18	Rick Gillman, Mathematics, Valparaiso University Enumerating and Constructing Essentially Equivalent Lattice Paths
Sep 25	Community Service Day
Oct 2	Roundtable meeting with new Admissions Director
Oct 9	Brian Miller, MKP-1 Inhibits Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Biosynthesis in Macrophages Amanda Schmidt, Synthesis of Titania Coated Alumina Particles by a Hybrid Sol-gel Method
Oct 16	Roundtable meeting to discuss program review proposals
Oct 30	Mark Mason, University of Toledo Green Chemistry: What Is It and How Does It Relate to Graduate Research at The University of Toledo?
Nov 6	Faculty Graduate School Stories
Nov 13	Chris Benner, Using Disruptive Phenotyping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Locate and Isolate a Mutant Ion Transport Gene Chellie Ramer, Enhancing the Wavefunction for Multi-electron Atoms
Nov 20	John Clute, Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine Opportunities in Podiatric Medicine
Dec 4	Arthur Umble, Manager of Operations City of Elkhart Water and Wastewater Utilities An Overview of the Quality of Our Nation's Waters

Science Speakers and Roundtable Spring 2003

Feb 5	Bruce Pankratz-Friesen, Candidate for a Position in the Biology Department From Sacred Lands to Wastelands and Back: Exploring the Values of Prairie Wetlands
Feb 12	Ed Squiers, Taylor University From Russia with Love: Forest Ecosystems of the Karelain Tiaga
Feb 17	Sharon Schapeln, Candidate for a Position in the Biology Department Effects of Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Habitat on the Distribution and Growth of Young of Year Fish
Feb 26	Brian Maust, Candidate for a Position in the Biology Department Research in Plant Physiological Ecology
Feb 27	Jerry Sweeten, Candidate for a Position in the Biology Department Suspended Stream Sediment: An Ecological Risk Factor for Warmwater Fishes
Mar 19	Philip D. Gingerich, University of Michigan Origin of Whales: A Paleontological Perspective on an Old Evolutionary Problem
Mar 26	Andrea Voth, DNA Repair: Removal of Oxidized Adenine Lesions by 3 OxoG Glycosylases Jon Cook, Of Motorcycles and Elephants
Apr 2	David Mahan, AuSable Institute The Structure, Function and Conservation of Running Waters
Apr 9	Danni Reimer, The Effect of Phloretin on Membrane Transport in Avian Erythrocytes Pete Nyce
May 5	Jon Umble, Oregon State University Understanding and Managing Garden Symphylans in Diverse Oregon Agroecosystems
May 21	Merry Lea Picnic

Science Speakers and Roundtable Fall 2003

Sep 3	Roundtable discussion of building services with Clay Shetler and Jim Histand (contact: Duane Kauffman)
Sep 10	Roundtable discussion of the Howard Hughs Medical Institute grant proposal (contact: Stan Grove)
Sep 17	Luke Gascho, Goshen College The Merry Lea Collegiate Facility
Sep 24	Celebrate Service Day
Oct 1	John Ross Buschert, Goshen College Physics of Handbells
Oct 8	Brenda Srof, Goshen College A Study of the Effects of Asthma Related Coping Skills Training On Asthma Self-Efficacy, Asthma Related Quality of Life, Social Support, and Asthma Diary Parameters Among Teens with Asthma
Oct 15	Midterm Break
Oct 22	Sarah Pachulitz, Goshen College Age-related Differences in Galvanic Skin Response: Is Lying Developmental?" Matthew Bauman, Aeron Huang, and Rebecca Johnson, Goshen College Biophysics of the Cell Membrane
Oct 29	Lisa Zinn, Paul Steury, and Dave Miller, Goshen College Demonstration of the Merry Lea Mobile Environmental Lab
Nov 5
Nov 12	Richard Hengst, Purdue North Central (contact: Jody Saylor) A Dinosaur Hunter from Northwest Indiana?
Nov 19	LisaRenee Duke, Goshen College
Nov 26	Thanksgiving Break
Dec 3	Andrew Histand, Goshen College The Range Nucleolus for Cooperative Games

Science Speakers and Roundtable Spring 2004

Jan 14	Roundtable: NSF STEM Proposal
Jan 21	Roundtable: Science Building Strategic Plan
Jan 28	Roundtable: Science Building Strategic Plan
Feb 4	Student Roundtable: Science Building Strategic Plan
Feb 09	The mysterious R. Synapse a.k.a. Dr. Richard Manalis The Frog Neuromuscular Junction as a Model of Synaptic Learning
Feb 18	Student/Faculty Roundtable: Science Building Strategic Plan
Feb 24	Christine Donmoyer, Columbia University Retinoid Biochemistry in the Eye and the Importance of Vitamin A for Vision
Feb 26	Doug Schirch, Ave Maria College of Americas 10-Formyltetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase: Domain Structure and Function
Mar 3	Midterm Break.
Mar 8	Kevin Jantzi, University of Wisconsin
Mar 8	Kevin Jantzi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Solution Structures and Chelation Strengths of Vinyllithium Reagents
Mar 11	Bruce Heyen, Tabor College Cells, Celery, and Calcium: Proteins Involved in Plant Stress Management
Mar 24	James Caristi, Valparaiso University Extreme Programming
Mar 31	Roundtable: Science Building Strategic Plan
Apr 7	Elliot D. Rosen, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine Functions of Blood Coagulation Factor VII: Studies in Genetically Modified Mice
Apr 14	Douglas J. Schwartzentruber, MD, FACS, Medical Director and Surgical Oncologist, Goshen Center for Cancer Care

Science Speakers and Roundtable Fall 2004

Aug 25	First Class Day
Sep 1	Science Building Roundtable (in SC 107): Jim Histand, Lyle Miller, Anita Stalter come for a discussion about the science building photocopier.
Sep 8	Roundtable: Stan Grove leads a discussion of reviewer comments on our latest National Science Foundation proposal.
Sep 15	Luke Gascho, Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center A Year-Long Graduate Program in Environmental Education
Sep 22	Celebrate Service Day
Sep 29	Dale Hess and Luke Gascho, Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center Agroecology Program
Oct 6	Carl Helrich, Thermonuclear Fusion and the NSTX
Oct 13	Fall Midterm Break
Oct 20	Shu Tu, Molecular Biology Research Project Katie Beck, Whales Research Project
Oct 25	Kathy Duffy, Midwest Religion and Science Society Universe Story (Part 2)
Nov 3
Nov 10	Carl Helrich, Goshen College Biological Channels and Membrane Microstructure
Nov 17	Nathan Pankratz, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine The Genetics of Parkinson Disease (and Complex Diseases in General)
Nov 24	Thanksgiving break
Dec 1	Doug Landis, Michigan State University Biological Control of Invasive Species

Science Speakers and Roundtable Spring 2005

Feb 2	David Neuhouser, Taylor University C.S.Lewis and Higher Dimensions
Feb 23	John Ross Buschert, Goshen College Musical Temperament
Mar 2	Spring break
Mar 9	Micah Rogel and Matthew Rissler, Notre Dame University The Transition from Goshen College to Graduate School
Apr 13	Rekishu Yamazaki, Purdue University Nonlinear and Coherent Optics
May 4	Merry Lea 'Green' Collegiate Facility Groundbreaking
May 11	Celebration!
May 16	Brian Crane, Emory University Some Basic Ideas in Graph Theory
May 18	Terry Peckham, Regina University Mining for Data
May 18	Faculty Merry Lea Picnic