Faculty Calendar, College of Integrative Sciences

Faculty Calendar: Events in Science

Below is a calendar of events for Fall 2024. This listing is appropriate for faculty, staff, and post-docs; for a listing appropriate to students please click this link.
When and Where	Event
September 6, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Marty Gilmore, Dean of NSM, Earth and Environmental Sciences "A Chat with the Dean"
September 11, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Pavithra Vivekanand, Susquehanna Univerisity "Honey gold nanoparticles attenuate IL-6 secretion from a human macrophage cell line" Link to Dr. Pavithra Vivekanand's research papers
September 12, 11:50am-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Catherine Copenhagen, Princeton University "Topological defects in an active nematic bacterial colony"
September 13, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Andrew White, Library "Library Collections, now with data!"
September 13, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Adrian Figg, Virginia Tech
September 18, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Maria Angelica Bravo Nunez, Harvard University/Cornell University
September 18, 4:30pm-5:30pm Van Vleck Observatory 110	Astronomy Colloquium Theron Carmichael, IfA Mãnoa "Transiting brown dwarfs: The enigmatic links between planets and stars"
September 18, 7:00pm Shanklin 107	Stearns Lecture Sean Gulick, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin "Life and Death by Impact: Drilling for Clues" Sixty-six million years ago a 6 to 9 miles wide diameter asteroid struck the Earth, resulting in the death of 75% of all species and all non-avian dinosaurs. The asteroid crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula with an impact that is estimated to have been equivalent to several billion atomic bombs. The impact caused global fires, tsunamis, and a "nuclear winter" effect, leading to drastic climate changes. In 2016 as part of the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Sean Gulick (UT_Austin) led a team of scientists to take cores from the crater to see what happened and when life finally returned to the site.
September 19, 11:50am-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Catherine Kealhofer, Williams College
September 19, 12:00pm Exley 405	Stearns Lecturer Sean Gulick (see above on September 18) will give a presentation focused on the debate about the discovery of the impact as the cause of the end Cretaceous mass extinction.
September 20, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Anthony Hatch, Science and Technology Studies "50 Years of STS and the Sciences at Wesleyan"
September 20, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Dr. Dana Westmoreland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 25, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Alina Chan, Broad Institute
September 27, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Nicole Stanton, Provost, Vice President of Academic Affairs "A Chat with the Provost"
September 27, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Sandy Bernstein, San Diego State University
September 27, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Ben McDonald, Brown University
October 2, 4:30pm-5:30pm Van Vleck Observatory 110	Astronomy Colloquium Greg Bryan, Columbia University "Galaxy regulation and the circumgalactic medium"
October 3, 11:50am-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Aaron Young, Harvard University
October 4, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Bill Nelligan, Director of Environmental Health, Safety & Sustainability "How are we safe - Practices and Improvements."
October 4, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Julia Schneider, Fordham University
October 9, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Angela Freeman, Salisbury University
October 11, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Carlos Jimenez-Hoyos "Some pitfalls in the basic modelso f chemical bonding"
October 16, 10:00am-6:00pm Beckham Hall	25th Annual Molecular Biophysics Retreat Keynote speaker Dr. Olga Boudker of Wiell Cornell Medicine will be joined by Wesleyan alumna Dr. Adele Bubnys, Wesleyan alumna and professor Dr. Kelly Thayer, and Wesleyan professors Dr. Oriana Fisher and Dr. Grace McKenzie-Smith for an exciting day of talks, poster sessions, lunch and a casual reception.
October 17, 11:50pm-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Sam Gralla, University of Arizona "Black Hole Bonanza"
October 18, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Joyce Powzyk, Biology "Science Materials for a Malagasy Classroom"
October 23, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Wellesley College
October 23, 4:30pm-5:30pm Van Vleck Observatory 110	Astronomy Colloquium Monica Gallegos-Garcia, CfA "Gaining insights into the formation if binary black hole mergers: Towards a new era of binary evolution"
October 25, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Michelle Chen, Chemistry "Light-Matter Interactions in Organic Materials"
October 25, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Pingua Liu, Boston University
October 30, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Dr. Matthew Young, Molecules to Medicine Collaboratory Discovery of an electrostatic switch that underlies allosteric regulation of multiple protein kinase enzymes
November 1, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Grace McKenzie-Smith, Physics "From cradle to grave with a fruit fly"
November 6, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Devaleena Pradhan, Idaho State University
November 7, 11:50pm-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Michelle Chen, Wesleyan University "Electronic and Spin Mixing of the Multiexciton State in Singlet Fission"
November 8, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Michael Roth, President "A Chat with the President"
November 13, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Katherine Vest, Idaho State University
November 13, 4:30pm-5:30pm Van Vleck Observatory 110	Astronomy Colloquium Wesleyan Alumin "Life After Wes"
November 14, 11:50pm-1:10pm Exley 058	Physics Department Colloquium Simone Colombo, University of Connecticut "Observing our Universe using Quantum/Atomic Sensors"
November 15, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Ed Moran and the Graduate Office "The BA/MA Program"
November 15, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Jacob Olshansky, Amherst College
November 20, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Carlos Garcia-Robledo, University of Connecticut "Stop heating your study organism: fitness estimates of plant-insect interactions under projected global warming"
November 21, 12:00pm Exley 405	The 'Lost Worlds' of the Wesleyan Natural History Collections Wesleyan has an amazing natural history collection which is being brough to life by Ellen Thomas. In this presentation she’ll talk about its history including connections to the Smithsonian. It’s quite a wonderful story about this almost lost Wesleyan treasure.
November 22, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Amy MacQueen, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry "Thankful for gametes"
November 22, 3:30pm-4:30pm Exley 058	Chemistry Department Colloquium Prof. Erwin London, Stony Brook University
December 4, 12:10pm-1:10pm Shanklin 107	Biology and MB&B Seminar Series Dean Wilcox, Dartmouth University
December 4, 4:30pm-5:30pm Van Vleck Observatory 110	Astronomy Colloquium Mia de los Reyes, Amherst College
December 6, 12:00pm-1:00pm Woodhead Lounge	NSM Luncheon Series Phil Resor, Chair of the Faculty, and Lisa Dombrowski, Vice Chair of the Faculty "Discussion of Faculty Governance"