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2010

	Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Complexes Relevant for Direct Arene Amination Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A lecture by James Morris Class of 2007 Sponsored by: Chemistry Program Craig Anderson 845-752-2356 [email protected]
	Thursday, November 18, 2010 Science on the Edge-Synthetic Biology: Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A lecture by John Ferguson Biology Program In July J. Craig Venter and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute announced the creation of a "synthetic cell" whose 1.08–mega–base pair genome was created from digitized genome sequence data. This was the first report of a viable cell created with a completely chemically-synthesized genome, although previous investigators had constructed functional viral particles from a chemically-synthesized genome. We will see how Venter's latest achievement fits in with his previous work and his future ambitions for "synthetic biology.” Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Felicia Keesing 845-752-2331 [email protected]
	Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Science on the Edge-The 2010 Nobel Prizes Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Chemistry Making the Connections – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Palladium Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Coupling The formation of carbon-carbon bonds has been a challenge that, for many years, only nature has been able to accomplish effectively. With the ability to assemble carbon-containing molecules into more complex structures, a multitude of new materials and biologically active compounds can be prepared. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their development of and contributions toward the field of transition-metal promoted reactions to create new carbon-carbon bonds.Lecture by Emily McLaughlin Chemistry Program Physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene” Awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for “producing, identifying and characterizing graphene”, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons. Since Geim and Novoselov revealed their absurdly simple method for making graphene in 2004, thousands of papers about this material have been published. Graphene’s two-dimensionality gives rise to unusual properties of fundamental and practical interest, including its electrical conductivity, strength and flexibility. In this talk, we’ll take a look at how graphene was made and characterized and some of its significant properties.Lecture by Simeen Sattar Physics Program Sponsored by: Biology Program; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Felicia Keesing 845-752-2331 [email protected]
	Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Science on the Edge - Paradigm Lost: Is Relatedness Really Essential to Animal Cooperation? Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A lecture by Philip Johns Biology ProgramOne of the most elegant ideas in evolution is the notion that organisms cooperate with relatives because relatives share genes. Mutations that lead to relatives cooperating can spread through populations even if the altruistic individuals do not themselves leave offspring. This process is called kin selection. It is difficult to overstate how influential this idea has been over the last half century. But in the last 15 years modern genetics revealed that some of the most impressive examples of animal cooperation -- eusocial insects with sterile working castes -- involve animals that are not necessarily closely related. In fact, in some groups, cooperating animals may be unrelated. In August, Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and Edward Wilson published a model explaining how relatedness, per se, is not necessary for the evolution of eusociality. This paper is enormously controversial. Fifty prominent scientists have reportedly signed a letter protesting its publication in Nature. In this talk, we discuss the elements of the model and why it is so controversial. Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Felicia Keesing 845-752-2331 [email protected]
	Monday, September 27, 2010 Get a Life: Get a Microwave Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A lecture by Professor Nicholas Leadbeater University of Connecticut Microwave heating can be used as a tool for cleaner, greener organic chemistry. By interfacing it with spectroscopy, microwave heating can also be used for studying reaction mechanisms. This seminar will show work that our group have performed in both of these areas as well as showing applications in biofuels production. Sponsored by: Chemistry Program Emily McLaughlin 845-752-2355 [email protected]
	Thursday, September 23, 2010 Bard Summer Research Institute Poster Session RKC lobby Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Mark Halsey 845-752-2336 [email protected]
	Friday, September 10, 2010 Lab Training Session Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium REQUIRED OF ALL STUDENTS WORKING OR DOING RESEARCH IN THE LAB If you previously attended a lab training session, you do not need to attend again. If you are unsure, please contact Maureen O'Callaghan-Scholl with questions at [email protected] Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program Maureen O'Callaghan-Scholl 845-752-2335 [email protected]
	Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Science, Mathematics & Computing Division Ice Cream Social RKC lobby Come to the Science, Mathematics & Computing Division ICE CREAM SOCIAL Stop by to ask questions about courses being offered or find out more about majoring in the programs. Faculty members from each program will be there to answer questions. Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Lauren Rose 845-758-7362 [email protected]
	Thursday, August 19, 2010 Pre-Health Professions 101: How to Prepare RKC 102 An information session led by Professor John Ferguson Professor Ferguson will introduce the pathways leading to post-baccalaureate degrees in the health professions, including allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, optometry, etc. etc. The discussion will be tailored to the interests of the audience. If you are interested in a health profession, but have not attended a similar previous discussion, you should attend this one. Sponsored by: Biology Program John Ferguson 845-752-2333 [email protected]
	Monday, May 17, 2010 Dogs in (Morpho) Space: Evolution of Phylogenetically Novel Crania Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A lecture by Abby Drake College of the Holy Cross Candidate for the visition position in biology Proponents of Intelligent Design claim that the boundaries between species are impassable. They assert that the patterns of diversity we observe on macroevolutionary scales can not by produced microevolutionary processes. Indeed, it is often difficult to provide evidence to the contrary because evolution happens on such a large time scale. Using three-dimensional shape analysis of canid cranial morphology I will discuss intraspecific variation, macroevolution, hopeful monsters and phylogenetic novelty. Has the evidence been lying at our very feet (and bringing us our slippers)? Sponsored by: Biology Program Michael Tibbetts 845-752-2309 [email protected]
	Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Senior Project Poster Session Reem-Kayden Center Students presenting:Erik Badger Oni Banks Jacqueline Bow Alex Carlin Aleksandar Chakarov Cedric Cogell Joseph Corey Ivelina Darvenyashka Jyoti Dev Tessa Dowling Jacob Ezerski Sarah Farell Jonathan Fivelsdal Wui Ming Gan Jun Harada Xian He Sam Israel Nina Jankovic Liz Jimenez-Martinez Huaizhou Jin Emanuel Krantz Leah Ladner Shun-Yang Lee Hannah Liddy Jason Mastbaum Robert McNevin Alison Mutter David Polett Hannah Quay-de la Vallee Adrita Rahman Viriya Ratansangpunth Che Ruisi-Besares Dale Simmons Fang Song Petar Stojanov Corinna Troll Alexandru Vladoi Nicholas Wilton Yu Wu William Wylie Xinyuan Xu Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Craig Anderson 845-752-2356 [email protected]
	Friday, April 23, 2010 The Mid-Hudson American Chemical Society 2010 Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium Reem-Kayden Center CONFERENCE PROGRAM Poster Session 3:30-5:00 p.m. RKC lobby Keynote address 5:30 p.m. Campus Center Multipurpose Room "Advances in Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation"Dr. Richard Puddephatt The University of Western Ontario The activation of the carbon-hydrogen bonds in alkanes and arenes by transition metal complexes is an important topic in chemistry. It has potential to contribute to energy efficiency, for example by catalytic conversion of methane to methanol, or to green synthesis, for example in carbon-carbon coupling reactions. This talk will give an overview of current research, especially using organoplatinum compounds for C-H bond activation. Sponsored by: Chemistry Program Emily McLaughlin 845-752-2355 [email protected]
	Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Bard Summer Research Institute Summer 2010-Applications now being accepted Reem-Kayden Center The Bard Summer Research Institute supports campus based summer research by undergraduate students in empirical/quantitative fields - anthropology, biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, physics, psychology, and sociology. Faculty propose research projects related to their own research that are appropriate for undergraduates participation and faculty act as mentors for the students. Each student selected to participate in BSRI receives a $2,500 stipend for the eight-week program. JUNE 7-JULY 30 APPLICATION DEADLINE-Monday, March 29th Students applications should be submitted via e-mail to Megan Karcher, [email protected], using the attached form. Sponsored by: Bard Summer Research Institute Megan Karcher 845-752-2340 [email protected] Download: BRSI student application poster S10.pdf
	Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Y Chromosome Evolution: Why? Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A Science on the Edge lecture by Philip Johns Biology program The Y chromosome is the chromosome that determines the development of males in humans and most other mammals. It is a small chromosome with very few genes. Evolutionary biologists have hypothesized the causes of its "degenerate" evolution. One prediction of how Y chromosomes degenerate is that the genes on Y chromosomes should evolve slowly. In a recent study titled, "Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content", Jennifer Hughes and her colleagues at MIT found that, contrary to expectations, genes on the Y chromosome have evolved incredibly quickly since humans and chimps diverged. We will discuss recent human evolution, how scientists have used the Y chromosome to make startling discoveries about humans in the past, and what the implications are that the Y chromosome is evolving as quickly as it is. Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Felicia Keesing 845-752-2331 [email protected]
	Tuesday, February 9, 2010 CANCELED - The Women in our Lives: Lucy, Ardi and Human Evolution Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. A re-schedule date will be announced A Science on the Edge lecture by William Maple Biology program Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and hundreds of biologists, paleontologists and anthropologists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries confronted the question of human origins without adequate fossil evidence. The similarity of apes and humans was clear but the links were missing. Even as more fossil, anatomical and biochemical evidence illuminated ape-human relationships, the mystery remained of accounting for the evolution of typical hominid bipedal locomotion from the knuckle-walking and arboreal locomotion of the African apes. The last 100 years of hominid fossil discoveries gradually pushed the age of our ancestry back to as much as 3+ million years (Australopithecus), but all were terrestrial bipeds. The discovery in the Ethiopian Afar Rift region of fragments (including a partial female skeleton) of a hominid now known as Ardipithecus ramidus clearly (at least to some) suggests a species that moved with both ape-like climbing and human-like bipedality. Recovery of other fossil vertebrates, invertebrates and plants in the same site clarified the ecological habitat as patchy forest. The elucidation of the place of Ardipithecus in hominid evolution was named breakthrough of the year by Science Magazine. Sponsored by: Biology Program Felicia Keesing 845-752-2331 [email protected]
	Friday, February 5, 2010 Lab Training Session RKC 102 Attention all biology and chemistry students!!!Attendance at the Lab Training Session is required of all students working in the lab. If you previously attended a lab training session, you do not need to attend again. If you are unsure, please contact Maureen O'Callaghan-Scholl at [email protected]. Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program Maureen O'Callaghan-Scholl 845-752-2335 [email protected]