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The Food for Thought series presents Midwestern Food Writing with food writer Peggy Wolff on Monday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room in Alden Library. Watch the event on Livestream. Wolff’s new anthology, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, brings together an […]

. Science Café presents Dr. John Kopchick on “Growth Hormone: Too Much or Not Enough?” on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. “Hormones do many things to our body starting before birth and continuing until death,”says Kopchick, the Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Professor of […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Hidekazu Saito of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology in Japan on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245. Saito will discuss “Electrical Creation of Spin Polarization in Ge at Room Temperature.” “A research […]

The Bioinformatics Journal Club presents “Will Sequencing Your Genes Change The Way You Live — And Die?” on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 4:35 p.m. in the Academic and Research Center (ARC)  321. The discussion leader is Ashwini Naik. View Richard Resnick’s TED Talk on “Will Sequencing Your Genes Change The […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium series presents Dr. Jie Shan of Case Western Reserve University on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Shan, Associate Professor of Physics at Case Western, will discuss “Atomically thin MoS2 crystals—a new two-dimensional semiconductor.” “The transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent […]

Molecular and Cellular Biology Seminar (MCB 7410) features Xinhao Liu on “Insulin Stimulates Membrane Fusion and GLUT4 Accumulation in Clathrin Coats on Adipocyte Plasma Membranes” on Tuesday, Nov. 12, from 4:10 to 5:05 p.m. in Porter 100. Abstract: Glucose transporter type 4(GLUT4) is a insulin responsive glucose  transporter that is […]

Join Dr. Deb McAvoy, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, as she turns the Front Room into a test driver laboratory, complete with video displays, and tests the reactions times of drivers, with the help of the audience. This Science Café discussion, “Roadway Design for Dummies,” is Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 5 […]