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Thursday, December 15, 2011

December 20, Flossmoor Brewery:

Kay MacLeod, associate professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at UChicago "Cancer’s Sweet Tooth — How Tumors Acquire and Burn Energy Differently from Normal Tissue."

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Past Talks

April 30, 2013 Jean Bogner, University of Illinois at Chicago "Garbage and Global Change"
March 19, 2013 Robin Whatley, Columbia College "Searching for fossil ancestors from the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona"
February 26, 2013 Speaker cancellation. Watched Nova episode "Megafloods of the Ice Age"
January 29, 2013 Joseph Maye, Becker Observatory of the Chicago Astronomical Society "Working for Wernher von Braun; It is Rocket Science
December 18, 2012 Cathy Pfister, University of Chicago "What Climate Change Means for the Oceans"
November 27, 2012 Rosenn Bailleul-LeSuer, University of Chicago "Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt"
October 30, 2012 Seth Darling, Argonne National Lab "The Solar Energy Challenge"
September 24, 2012 Josh Schonwald, Freelance writer and Gleanster LLC "A Solution to the Coming Crisis: the Perfect Sustainable Meal"
August 21, 2012 Art Mauer, Joliet Junior College "Seasonal Skies"
July 31, 2012 Robin M. Zavod, Midwestern University "Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment: Sources and Ramifications"
June 26, 2012 David Schloen, University of Chicago "Making Sense of a 3,000-year-old City Plan Revealed by Geomagnetic Surveys and Targeted Excavations"
May 29, 2012 Art Mauer, Trackman Planetarium at Joliet Community College "Seasonal Skies"
April 24, 2012 Tim Wootton, University of Chicago "Marine Ecology and the Invisible Fabric of Nature"
March 27, 2012 Louise Hawkley, University of Chicago. “Loneliness Matters: Risk Factors and Health Consequences.”
February 28, 2012 Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, University of Illinois at Chicago - "The Reality of Climate Change and Ecosysytem Impacts"
January 31, 2012 Douglas Macayeal, University of Chicago - "A layman's guide to Earth's most destructive waves: Tsunamis"
December 20, 2011 Kay MacLeod, University of Chicago - "Cancer’s Sweet Tooth — How Tumors Acquire and Burn Energy Differently from Normal Tissue."
November 29, 2011 Steven Simon, University of Chicago - “The Fall, Recovery, and Classification of the Park Forest Meteorite.”
October 29, 2011 Erin Argyilan, Indiana University, NW - "The story of strandplains - using shorelines to reconstruct water levels in the Great Lakes"
Sept 28, 2011 Allen Sanderson, University of Chicago - "Sports, Statistics and Economics."
August 30, 2011 Neil Sturchio, University of Illinois at Chicago - "Perchlorate in the Environment"
July 27, 2011 Tabitha Stine, American Institute of Steel Construction - "Earthquake Structural Safety – Are You Safe?!?"
Jun 28, 2011 Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago - "The Dark Side of The Universe"
May 6, 2011 Michael Coates, University of Chicago - "The Incompleat ANGLER or Fishing for creatures from the black lagoon"
April 27, 2011 Andrew Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago - "Was the Moon Landing a Hoax?"
Mar 29, 2011 Peter Doran, University of Illinois at Chicago - "Human and Robotic science in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica"

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