2023
Wednesday September 27th
How Evolution Happens
Toby Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine (ret.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Wednesday October 25
The Hudson Valley School of Art and its Ice Age Origins
Robert Titus, Ph.D. and Johanna Titus, Columnists – The Mountain Eagle
Wednesday August 23
Climate Change: A Palaeoclimatologist’s Perspective
Kirsten Menking, Ph.D., Professor of Earth Science on the Althea Ward Clark Chair, Vassar College
Wednesday July 26
More than a Bunsen burner: How a scientist improves access to pharmaceutical drugs and science education in Cameroon
Rolande Hodel, Ph.D. President & Founder, AIDSfreeAFRICA
Wednesday June 28
Evolution in Higher Education Today: The Bad and the Ugly
Glenn Geher, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, and Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies, SUNY New Paltz
Wednesday, May 17 (3rd Wednesday)
Dinosaurs: Terrible Lizards, but Great Birds
Carolyn Rounds, MS, MPS, Associate Professor, Allied Health and Biological Sciences, Dutchess Community College
2022
Wednesday October 26
The Science of Magic
Dr. Willie K. Yee, Life Member, Society of American Magicians, Solar System Ambassador
Wednesday September 28
The Hudson Valley – A Billion Years of History
Steven H. Schimmrich, Professor of Geology & Earth Sciences, Chair of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM), SUNY Ulster County Community College
Wednesday August 24th
The World of Viruses
Toby Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Wednesday July 27th
Update on Macular Degeneration
Michael Bywater, O.D., a practicing Optometrist
Wednesday June 22th
How Color Changed the World
Mary Virginia Orna, Ph.D, ChemSource, Inc., New Rochelle, NY
Wednesday May 25th
Sociological View of Lyme Disease
Irwin Sperber, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY New Paltz (retired)
Monday April 25th
Physiology of blood feeding arthropods with emphasis on ticks
John McLaughlin, Ph.D., Research Entomologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA (retired)
2021
November 17 (3rd Wed)
New arsenic-containing antibiotics
Masafumi Yoshinaga, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Florida International University School of Medicine.
October 20 To celebrate National Chemistry Week: in conjunction with the American Chemical Society-Mid-Hudson Branch
The science of whiskey making
Victor V. Margiotta, M.S., President, VMAR Food Labeling Associates, LLC
September 27
Eating Right for Health, Longevity, and Pandemic Resilience
Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, DipABLM, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Otolaryngology, Chair, Committee on Plant-based Health & Nutrition, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY
August 25, 2021
Bone Grafting Options for Implant Dentistry
John F. Carpenter, D.M.D., M.A.G.D., LLSR, DICOI, New Windsor, NY.
May 26
Is vaping a safe alternative to cigarettes?
Judy Zelikoff, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
April 28
Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla: Men of Science & Inventions
Leon Dimartino
Wednesday, March 24th at 7:30 PM EST
Mutations are in the News: What causes them?
Toby G Rossman, NYU-Grossman School of Medicine
2020
November 18 Evan Merkhofer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
October 28 Biodegradable polymers, Joseph Krumpfer Ph.D. previously Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pace University
September 30 Preventing a global health crisis: Our search for new antibiotics Luis Garbinski, Doctoral Candidate, Florida International University School of Medicine
June 24, To Vape or Not To Vape – Smoking Cessation? Terry Gordon, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
July 22, Playing in the Mud! How Earth Scientists learn about climate change, Kirsten Menking, Ph.D., Professor of Earth Science, Althea Ward Clark Professor of Environmental Science, Vassar College
August 26 Chemical Detective Work: Contributions to Art and Art History Mary Virginia Orna, Ph.D., ChemSource, Inc., New Rochelle, New York
September 23, Soil Bacteria, Maureen Morrow, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, SUNY New Paltz
2019
May 22nd
The Science of Aging – Extending Healthy Life.
Toby G Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone Health
June 26
Population and Planning
David Church, AICP, Commissioner of Planning & Executive Director, Water Authority, Orange County (NY)
July 24
Mist connections: clouds, fog and the maintenance of ecosystems
Kathleen C. Weathers, Ph.D. G. Evelyn Hutchinson Chair in Ecology, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, and President-elect of the Ecological Society of America
August 28
The science/policy interface at US environmental regulatory agencies
Bernard Goldstein, MD, former EPA assistant administrator for research and development (1983-1985) and Dean Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
September 25
Homo sapiens: Evolution’s Biggest Goof Up
Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, John Jay College (CUNY), Author of Not So Different and Human Errors
October 23
Preventing Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in our communities
Ilya R. Fischhoff, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook N.Y.
November 20
Black holes – not so black?
Pre 2019
November 28
Direct to Consumer DNA Tests
Evan Merkhofer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
October 24
Saliva: The New Fingerprint of Taste Preference and Selection
Glen Roy, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Ingredients Science and Technology, Pepsico Global R&D, Valhalla, NY (retired)
September 26
Climate change: latest data on the mid-Hudson region and NYC, historical data on length of seasons, loss of commercial activities, and changing bird migrations
William Makofske, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Sciences, Ramapo College
August 22
Quality Control of pharmaceuticals and water in Cameroon, Africa
Rolande R. Hodel, Ph.D., President & Founder, AIDSfreeAFRICA, 125 South Highland Ave. #3-B1, Ossining, NY 10562
July 25
Teaching Science Research in High School
Lisa Reece, teacher, Warwick High School, New York
June 27
Fashions in Science and National Policy
Irwin Sperber, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY New Paltz
May 23
Living in the Polymer World: Polymers and Macromolecules in our Daily Lives
Joseph Krumpfer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Pace University.
April 25
To Bee or Not to Bee. Neonicotinoid Pesticides and Bee Decline
John McLaughlin, Ph.D., Research Entomologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA (retired)
Wednesday November 29
Evolution, Altruism, and the Advent of Positive Evolutionary Psychology
Glen Geher, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies, SUNY New Paltz
Wednesday October 25
Genetically-modified food
Julianna LeMieux, PhD, Senior Fellow in Molecular Biology American Council on Science and Health and Adjunct Instructor of ‘Science Forward’ at CUNY
Wednesday September 27
Gut Feeling: the connection between the gut microbiome and behaviour
David Esteban, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Vassar College
Wednesday, August 23
(Joint session with Mid-Hudson Branch, American Chemical Society)
The science of water purification
James Beaumont, PE, Executive Director of the Orange County Water Authority (ret.)
Wednesday July 26 2017
New findings on the human immune system: It’s enough to make you sick!
Joel Brind, Ph.D.
Baruch College, CUNY
Wednesday June 21 2017 (nb: third Wednesday)
Carbon Fossilization: The Solution to the Global Warming Problem
David Mendenhall, Ph.D.
President, Eastern Sources, Inc., 135 Rt 59E, Spring Valley, NY
Wednesday May 24 2017
The Changing Profile of Engine Oils: The new categories are upon us!
Mary Dery, Ph.D.
New Product Development, Antioxidants and Viscosity Modifiers, Fuel and Lubricant Solutions, BASF Corporation, Tarrytown, NY
Wednesday, April 26 2017
What the nose knows
Toby Rossman, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
THURSDAY November 17 2016
Do Scientists Have A Sense Of Humor?
Andi Weiss Bartczak, Ph.D.
October 26 2016
Warm Bugs and Arthropod Disease Transmission
John Mclaughlin, Ph.D.
Res. Entomologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA (Ret)
September 28 2016
Cutting and pasting with DNA: How genome editing is changing the face of biology
Evan Merkhofer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (Biology), Mount Saint Mary College
August 24 2016
Epigenetics in the Genome Era: Influences on health and disease
Catherine Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
July 27 2016
PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury
Richard Silverman, MD
Consultant, Hudson Valley VA Hospital and Medical Center and Assistant Professor, New York Medical College.
June 22 2016
Climate change action: The greatest public health opportunity of the 21st Century?
George Thurston, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
May 25 2016
Ground water
James Beaumont, Ph.D.
Orange County (NY) Water Authority
April 27 2016
Fukushima Update: Fukushima Ionizing Radiation Workers: Are They Protected?
Fred Burns, Ph.D.,
Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine o ignored
November 18th
There’s a fungus among us: the science of yeasts and fermentation
Evan Merkhofer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Mary College
October 28th
The Natural Lifetime of Ideological Regimes
G. David Mendenhall Ph.D.
Retired Professor of Chemistry, Michigan Technological University, current president of Eastern Sources, Inc., a specialty chemical company.
September 30th 2015
Predatory bacteria: Potential “living antibiotics”?
Megan A. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, SUNY New Paltz
August 26th, 2015
The Neuromythology of Einstein’s Brain
Terrence Hines, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Pace University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology, New York Medical College, and author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
July 22, 2015
Chemistry of stained glass
Christopher Smart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College
Wednesday June 24th 2015
Good Dogs, Bad Genes
Toby Rossman, Ph.D.
Prof. of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicne
Wednesday May 27th 2015
Alternative Energy: Personalized Energy and Solar Options for the Future
Michael Machczynski, Ph.D.,
Asst. Prof. Chemistry, SUNY New Paltz
Wednesday April 22 2015
Ebola
Rolande Hodel, Ph.D.
President & Founder, AIDSfreeAFRICA
Wednesday November 19th
Less than you wanted to know: Statistical insignificance
Arthur Nadas, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
Wednesday October 22
Epigenetics – how your grandmother’s diet may have changed your life
Haley Clancy, Ph.D.
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Tuesday September 23
Pollen and Macrofossil History from the Hudson Marshes and the Recent Increase in Invasive Species
Dorothy Peteet
Senior Research Scientist, NASA/GISS & Adj. Senior Research Scientist & Adj. Professor, Columbia Univ., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades
Wednesday August 27
Through the looking glass: Frontiers in Live Cell Imaging
Timothy Pratt Ph.D. Senior Application Support Specialist, Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC, Thornwood NY.
Wednesday July 23
Update on Health Effects of First Responders at World Trade Center site
Mitchell Cohen, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor, The Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
Wednesday June 25
The Value of Trees: Emerging Perspectives on Benefits for Energy, Water, Health and Community Development
Simon Gruber, Fellow, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Wednesday May 28 2014
Cataracts: classifications, treatment options and determining the right time to treat
Michael Bywater, O.D.
Practicing Optometrist
Wednesday April 23 2014
Current Environmental and Medical Hazards from Fracking to Hip Replacements
Max Costa, Ph.D.
Director, The Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
Tuesday March 25 2014
Land Development and Lyme Disease: A Challenge for Environmental Policy and Public Health
Irwin Sperber, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY New Paltz
November 20 2013
Potential Health Impacts of Natural Gas Development
Larysa Dyrszka, MD
Pediatrician, Sullivan Community College Board of Trustees member, participant in various U.N. committees and founding member of Concerned Health Professionals of New York
Wednesday October 23 2013
The Earth’s past climate
Gilbert Brenner, Ph.D.
Retired Professor of Paleontology and Geology, SUNY New Paltz
During the last 4.6 billion years the Earth has had wild swings in climate from warm to very cold. In many areas, the Earth itself has kept a detailed log, albeit in a language that must first be deciphered. Geologists (Earth Historians) use the term ‘proxy’ to describe a way that climate change is recorded in nature, within geological materials such as ocean or lake sediments, tree-rings, coral growth-bands, ice-cores, and cave deposits. Lets take a look at some of the evidence and see what our planet has endured.
Wednesday September 25 2013
Comet coming in November
Edwin Forrest
Astronomy Delight, an innovative educational program.
Wednesday August 28 2013
CSI in Westchester
Robert Adamo, M.S- D-ABC
Director- Division of Forensic Science, Westchester County
Wednesday July 31 2013
Life is too short to drink cheap beer: the Chemistry of Brewing Beer
Jack Chastain
Unix System Engineer at Verizon
May 22 2013
CSI in Westchester
Robert Adamo
MS, D-ABC, Director- Division of Forensic Science, Westchester County
April 24 2013
Epigenetic effects of environmental estrogens
Catherine Klein
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
December 19th 2012
Chagas’, the disease that killed Darwin
John McLaughlin
Ph.D. Research Entomologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA (retired)
November 28 2012
Ascent of Cosmology – from myth to method
Stan Schmidt MS, Applied numerical analyst, IBM (retired)
October 24, 2012
Sturgeon in the Hudson: Biology, Management, and Vulnerability to Coastal Harvests of Hudson River Atlantic Sturgeon
Isaac Wirgin
Ph.D., Assoc. Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine
August 22 2012
Yoga and Medicine: How Yoga can treat back pain and other common problems
Dr. Loren Fishman, Medical director, Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, teacher at Columbia Medical School, author, lecturer and lifelong yoga practitioner.
July 25 2012
Environmental Influences on Pulmonary Hypertension
Gabriele Grunig, D.V.M., Ph.D, Associate Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, NYU-Langone School of Medicine.
June 27 2012
The Ecology of the Hudson River
David Strayer, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, author of “The Hudson Primer:The Ecology of an Iconic River”.
May 23 2012
An Inconvenient Conversation: Psychologies of Climate Action
Melissa Everett, Ph.D. Executive Director Sustainable Hudson Valley
April 25 2012
Your genes and your health: insights from the Human Genome Project about risk of disease
Toby G Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine
March 28 2012
Puzzles of Speech Perception
Navin Viswanathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Program in Linguistics
December 21st 2011
Understanding the Underemployment Problem: Why Having a Job Isn’t Enough
Douglas C. Maynard, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, SUNY New Paltz
November 16th 2011
Arsenic and human health
Toby G. Rossman, Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine (Co-sponsored by The Mid Hudson section of the American Chemical Society)
October 26th 2011
Did the exotic Tobacco plant seduce civilization?
Assieh Melikian, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Pace University.
September 28th 2011
Biosensor Based Detection Paradigm: Novel Assays for Clinical, Environmental, Forensics, Nano-engineering and in-vivo Neuro-psycho-pharmacology
David N. Rahni Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Pace University, and President, Chemical Detectives, LLC
August 24 2011
String Theory: A Theory of Everything? Or a Theory of Nothing?
David L. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Physics, Eugene Lang College, The New School
July 27 2011
Designing and implementing an emerging pharmaceutical infrastructure in Africa
Rolande R. Hodel, Ph.D., President & Founder, AIDSfreeAFRICA
June 22nd 2011
Fireworks – fun and risk factors
Terry Gordon, Ph.D., Professor, NYU Langone School of Medicine
May 25th 2011
Cancer preventive effects of celebrex and the possible risk of cardiovascular side effects
Bhagavathi Naryananan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine
April 27th 2011
Pharmacologic and clinical advances in addiction medicine
Peter Rostenberg, M.D., in clinical practice (internal medicine) with a specialty in addiction medicine.
March 23rd 2011
The American crow: not your average songbird
Douglas Robinson, Ph.D.
Dr. Robinson is a behavioral ecologist interested in avian breeding biology and the evolution of social behavior. He teaches at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY, and is preparing for an investigation that will compare the breeding biology of American Crows, Fish Crows, and Common Ravens in the mid-Hudson River valley.
December 15th 2010
The story of Remicade®: How a biologic drug against rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease advanced from modest beginnings to unforeseen therapeutic successes
Jan Vilcek, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, NYU Langone School of Medicine
November 17th 2010
Mapping the Floor of the Hudson River Estuary – Using sonar to map fish habitat and investigate contaminant transport in the Estuary
John W. Ladd, Ph.D., Benthic Mapping Coordinator, Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Hudson River Estuary Program, NYS Dept Environmental Conservation, Ossining, NY
October 27th 2010
How Evolution happens: Lessons from Molecular Biology
Toby Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hurricanes and Climate
Timothy Hall, Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute Space Studies, New York City
Wednesday October 27 2010
How Evolution happens: Lessons from Molecular Biology
Toby Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine
Wednesday August 25, 2010
What’s eating you? People and Parasites
Eugene Kaplan, Ph.D, Axinn Distinguished Professor of Conservation and Ecology, Hofstra University
Wednesday July 28, 2010
Environmental endocrine disruptors: How we identify them, and what they mean to people
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.
Wednesday June 23, 2010
The Geology of the Hudson River Valley and the art it inspired
Gilbert Brenner, Ph.D., Retired Professor of Paleontology and Geology, SUNY New Platz
Monday May 26, 2010
Why the recession, and where we are going: Job growth in America
Gordon Rauer, M.A., businessman and former teacher of Economics (Syracuse University adjunct).
Wednesday April 28, 2010
Risks to New York Water Supplies from Natural Gas “Fracking”
Stephen Penningroth, Ph.D. Executive Director, Community Science Institute, Ithaca
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Diabetes: Don’t be part of the epidemic (and if you are already, good self-care is the key)
Emily Evina-Ze, Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, Hudson Valley Healthcare System (VA initiative to bring care closer to veterans)
December 16, 2009
The electronic tongue and Screening for Bitterness inhibition
Glenn Roy, Ph.D. Pepsico Global R&D, Valhalla, NY
November 18, 2009
From Your Desktop to the World: Geobrowsers, Virtual Globes and Online Map Services
John Mickelson, M.S., Geospatial and Ecological Services, Monroe, NY
October 28, 2009
Song culture and song learning in songbirds”
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.
September 23 7.00 PM
Arsenic biogeocycles: The biology of environmental arsenic
Barry Rosen, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Basic Research and Graduate Programs, Florida International University Medical School (formerly, Chair of Biochemistry, Wayne State)
August 26 7.00 PM
Darwin: A man of controversy
Dr. Iris Turkenkopf, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh
July 22 7.00 PM
Can Nuclear Power be Safe and Green
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.
June 24, 2009 7.30 PM
Risk Assessment: The Rationalization of Fortune Telling
David Eberle, MD, Public Health Physician, consultant and author.
May 27 7.30 PM
Computer memories – present state and future
Janusz Nowak, Ph.D., Physical Science Department, T. J. Watson Research Center , IBM, Yorktown Heights , NY
April 22 7.30 PM
Fine particle components in outdoor air: Exposures and health effects
Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., Professor, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
March 25 7.30 PM
Junk Science in a Democratic Society: Why Environmental NGOs Give a Free Pass to Bogus Research on Global Warming.
Presenter: Irwin Sperber, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Sociology Department, SUNY New Platz
Wednesday December 17
Pharmacogenomics and the future of drug discovery
Ronald Snyder, Ph.D. Schering Plough Research Institute, Lafayette, NJ
Wednesday November 19
The astronomic search for the origins of life on Mars
Robert Novak, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Physics Department, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
Wednesday October 29
Why people believe in pseudoscientific and paranormal claims
Terrance Hines, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Pace University, Adjunct Professor of Neurology, New York Medical College, and author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
Wednesday September 17
Inflammation and the downfall of Vioxx
Teresa Garrett, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College
Wednesday August 27 2008
Turning genes off and on
Catherine Klein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY
Tuesday June 24
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
James T. Spencer Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse University
Tuesday May 27
Don’t put all your shrimp eggs in one basket – estuarine shrimp and their importance in the food chain and their use as biomonitors
Kathleen Nolan, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY
Tuesday April 22
A glance at the future without anthropogenic global warming
Juerg Michael Matter, Ph.D., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
Tuesday March 25
Human Evolution
Ximena Valderrama, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Biology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Tuesday February 26
What’s so special about nano? An introduction to nanoscience
Janet M. Petroski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mount Saint Mary College , Newburgh, NY
Tuesday January 22 2008
Detecting the causes of human cancers
Toby G. Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Tuesday December 18
The Criminalization of Mental Illness – Coping and Reversing
Zebulon Taintor M.D., Professor, NYU School of Medicine and the Nathan S. Kline Institute
Tuesday November 27
Ecological Damage by Contaminants in the Hudson River
Ike Wirgin, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Tuesday October 23
Gross Science, Silly Science, Useless Science, Useful Science: Vignettes from Scientific Research
Andi Weiss Bartczak, Ph.D., Science Consultant and Educator, Gardiner, NY
Tuesday September 25
How our diet prevents mutations from environmental agents
David DeMarini, Ph.D., Genetic Toxicology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency
Tuesday August 28
Detecting the causes of human cancers
Toby G. Rossman, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Tuesday July 24
Midlife Regret: The Cruelest Emotion
Lawrence Force, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, and Paul Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Mount St. Mary College
Tuesday June 26
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
William Makofske, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Physics and Environmental Sciences, Ramapo College
Tuesday May 22
Inherent Gender Differences in Science/Math Abilities: A Critical Analysis
Alison Nash, Ph.D., Professor and Giordana Grossi, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, Dept. Psychology, SUNY New Platz
Tuesday April 24 2007
Characteristics and Health Effects of the World Trade Center Dust
George Thurston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine