Cafe Scientifique

Where :	Diana’s, 1015 Little Britain Road (Route 207) New Windsor (just east of Stewart Newburgh Airport, on the opposite side of the road from the airport entrance). Website here. Early Bird dinner served to 6PM
When :	Wednesdays, see below, 7PM
Web Site:
Contact:	Toby Rossman

Hudson Valley Science Café

Future topics will be chosen from all of the sciences. If you have a suggestion for a speaker, or if you have a topic to present, please contact Dr. Toby Rossman (toby.rossman@nyumc.org).

Previous Events

Upcoming events

Date:	Wednesday July 28, 2010
Title:	Environmental endocrine disruptors: How we identify them, and what they mean to people
Speaker:	Errol Zeiger, Ph.D., LL.D., an independent consultant who formerly worked for FDA, and then NIEHS (NIH) from 1976 – 2000, where he developed and directed the genetic toxicology development and testing program in the National Toxicology Program.

Date:	Wednesday August 25, 2010
Title:	What’s eating you? People and Parasites
Speaker:	Eugene Kaplan, Ph.D, Axinn Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Ecology, Hofstra University

Date:	Wednesday October 27 2010
Title:	How Evolution happens: Lessons from Molecular Biology
Speaker:	Toby Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine

Previous Events

Date:	Tuesday April 24 2007
Title:	Characteristics and Health Effects of the World Trade Center Dust
Speaker:	George Thurston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Date:	Tuesday May 22
Title:	Inherent Gender Differences in Science/Math Abilities: A Critical Analysis
Speaker:	Alison Nash, Ph.D., Professor and Giordana Grossi, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Dept. Psychology, SUNY New Platz
Date:	Tuesday June 26
Title:	Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Speaker:	William Makofske, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Sciences, Ramapo College
Date:	Tuesday July 24
Title:	Midlife Regret: The Cruelest Emotion
Speaker:	Lawrence Force, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, and Paul Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Mount St. Mary College
Date:	Tuesday August 28
Title:	Detecting the causes of human cancers
Speaker:	Toby G. Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Date:	Tuesday September 25
Title:	How our diet prevents mutations from environmental agents
Speaker:	David DeMarini, Ph.D., Genetic Toxicology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency
Date:	Tuesday October 23
Title:	Gross Science, Silly Science, Useless Science, Useful Science: Vignettes from Scientific Research
Speaker:	Andi Weiss Bartczak, Ph.D., Science Consultant and Educator, Gardiner, NY
Date:	Tuesday November 27
Title:	Ecological Damage by Contaminants in the Hudson River
Speaker:	Ike Wirgin, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Date:	Tuesday December 18 (NB Third Tuesday, because of Christmas)
Title:	The Criminalization of Mental Illness - Coping and Reversing
Speaker:	Zebulon Taintor M.D., Professor, NYU School of Medicine and the Nathan S. Kline Institute
Date:	Tuesday January 22 2008
Title:	Detecting the causes of human cancers
Speaker:	Toby G. Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Date:	Tuesday February 26
Title:	What's so special about nano? An introduction to nanoscience
Speaker:	Janet M. Petroski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Saint Mary College , Newburgh, NY
Date:	Tuesday March 25
Title:	Human Evolution
Speaker:	Ximena Valderrama, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Biology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Date:	Tuesday April 22
Title:	A glance at the future without anthropogenic global warming
Speaker:	Juerg Michael Matter, Ph.D., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
Date:	Tuesday May 27
Title:	Don't put all your shrimp eggs in one basket - estuarine shrimp and their importance in the food chain and their use as biomonitors
Speaker:	Kathleen Nolan, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY
Date:	Tuesday June 24
Title:	*From Sherlock Holmes* to CSI: chemistry as a forensic science.** A joint presentation of the Hudson Valley Science Cafe and the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the American Chemical Society
Speaker:	James T. Spencer Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University
Date:	Wednesday August 27
Title:	Turning genes off and on
Speaker:	Catherine Klein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
Date:	Wednesday September 17
Title:	Inflammation and the downfall of Vioxx
Speaker:	Teresa Garrett, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College
Date:	Wednesday October 29
Title:	Why people believe in pseudoscientific and paranormal claims
Speaker:	Terrance Hines, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Pace University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology, New York Medical College, and author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
Date:	Wednesday November 19
Title:	The astronomic search for the origins of life on Mars
Speaker:	Robert Novak, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Physics Department, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
Date:	Wednesday December 17
Title:	Pharmacogenomics and the future of drug discovery
Speaker:	Ronald Snyder, Ph.D. Schering Plough Research Institute, Lafayette, NJ

Date:	March 25 7.30 PM
Title:	Junk Science in a Democratic Society: Why Environmental NGOs Give a Free Pass to Bogus Research on Global Warming.
Speaker:	Presenter: Irwin Sperber, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY New Paltz

Date:	April 22 7.30 PM
Title:	Fine particle components in outdoor air: Exposures and health effects
Speaker:	Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., Professor, Nelson Insitiute of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY

Date:	May 27 7.30 PM
Title:	Computer memories - present state and future
Speaker:	Janusz Nowak, Ph.D., Physical Science Department, T. J. Watson Research Center , IBM, Yorktown Heights , NY

Date:	June 24, 2009 7.30 PM
Title:	Risk Assessment: The Rationalization of Fortune Telling
Speaker:	David Eberle, MD, Public Health Physician, consultant and author.

Date:	July 22 7.00 PM
Title:	Can Nuclear Power be Safe and Green
Speaker:	John McLaughlin, Ph.D., formerly a researcher at Agricultural Research Service of USDA, and at a small firm. Past President and now Treasurer, Beacon Sloop Club.

Date:	August 26 7.00 PM
Title:	Darwin: A man of controversy
Speaker:	Dr. Iris Turkenkopf, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh

Date:	September 23 7.00 PM
Title:	Arsenic biogeocycles: The biology of environmental arsenic
Speaker:	Barry Rosen, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Basic Research and Graduate Programs, Florida International University Medical School (formerly, Chair of Biochemistry, Wayne State)

Date:

October 28, 2009 7.00 PM

Title:

A SPECIAL EVENING OF SCIENCE AND MUSIC. “Song culture and song learning in sonbirds”

Speaker:

Ofer Tchernichovski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, City University of New York; PLUS Music by David Rothenberg (author of “Why Birds Sing”) and friends.

David Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author of Why Birds Sing (Basic Books, 2005). He was the editor of the MIT Press journal Terra Nova: Nature and Culture. David Rothenberg is also a composer and jazz clarinetist, and he has six CDs out under his own name, one of which was named one of the top ten releases of 1995 by Jazziz magazine.

Timothy Hill is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, in jazz, folk, and world music. He has produced three CDs of his music and appears on eight recordings by David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir, and as a guest vocalist on other recordings. Hill performs his music frequently, and has appeared at Sin-e, Fez, Mercury Lounge, The Living Room, and Joe's Pub, alongside artists such as Jeff Buckley, Susan McKeown, Martha Wainwright, and Teddy Thompson.

Date:	November 18, 2009 7.00 PM - 3rd Wednesday due to thanksgiving
Title:	From Your Desktop to the World: Geobrowsers, Virtual Globes and Online Map Services
Speaker:	John Mickelson, M.S., Geospatial and Ecological Services, Monroe, NY