Homewood-Flossmoor Science Pub

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Because there is no automatic way of doing it, and we were falling behind keeping this page updated as well as Facebook - we've stopped putting lecture announcements here. You can still sign up for the email list to the right there, and you can find everything you need to know on our Facebook page. You don't need to be a member of Facebook to read it. We'll also keep updating the list of past talks below on this page from time to time.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Starting the HF Science Pub

This was inspired by a USA Today article about this fad sweeping the nation

So I decided our community needed this

Schedule and topics and email sign up will be posted here

-Peter Doran

Past Talks

February 25, 2020 Harold Pollack, University of Chicago "Preventing violent encounters between people with mental illness and first responders"
October 29, 2019 Omri Ben-Shahar, University of Chicago "A Right to Know? Labeling GMO Food"
September 24, 2019 Daina Almario-Kopp, University of Illinois at Chicago "Natural Male Birth Control: It’s History, Physiology, and Censorship"
April 30, 2019 Dr. Maria Weber, University of Chicago "Magnetic Furnaces: The Secret Lives of Middle-Aged Suns"
March 26, 2019 Greg Karczmar, University of Chicago “Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening”
February 26, 2019, Deri Morgan, Rush University Medical Center “Proton Channels in Nature, Health and Disease”
November 27, 2018 Marcus Kronforst, University of Chicago "Genetic and behavioral studies of monarch butterfly migration"
October 30, 2018 Cathy Pfister, University of Chicago "The history, function and fate of ocean forests in the Pacific Northwest "
September 25, 2018 Angela Hung, Prairie State College "Do You Sea Food? A Midwestern Teacher at Sea"
June 26, 2018 Olivier Rieppel, Field Museum, "Triassic Marine Reptiles in Southern China"
May 29, 2018 John Yunger, Governor's State University, "Eat or be Eaten: Foraging in a World of Fear"
March 27, 2018 Brian Colin, Game Refuge, "The Arcade History Tour: Rampage and Game Design"
February 27, 2018 Ted Anton, DePaul University, "Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Organisms."
January 30, 2018, Megan Crowley-Makota, Northwestern University, "Mothers, Kidneys, and the Ethics of Organ Transplant: Lessons from Mexico."
November 28, 2017 Erin Grey-Avis, Governors State University, "Invasive Species of the Great Lakes"
October 31, 2017 Bruce Patterson, Field Museum of Natural History. "Tsavo Man-eating Lions!"
September 26, 2017. Seth Darling, Argonne National Lab, "The End of Water as we Know it"
May 30, 2017, Tim Wootton, University of Chicago "Running Waters Far and Near: A Whole Ecosystem Perspective"
April 25, 2017, John Sowa, Governors State University "Discovery of the PIE process. How a very common Polyol induces a novel chemical extraction"
March 28, 2017, Tim Gsell, Governors State University "Metagenomic Characterization of Bacterial Diversity and Succession in The Shedd Aquarium’s Wild Reef Shark Exhibit Setup"
February 28, 2017, Peter Doran, Louisiana State University "Climate Change (with a focus on Earth's Poles). Let's talk."
January 31, 2017 Javier Chavira, Governors State University "Science meets Art: Technique Mixte - Oil Over Tempera"
December 6, 2016 Neal Jankowski, Governors State University "Honeybees and Tall Grass Prairie Restoration"
November 15, 2016 Erin Argyilan, Indiana University Northwest "Could human modification of the shoreline be the cause of holes forming in the Mount Baldy dune, Indiana Dunes?"
September 27, 2016 Peter Snyder, University of Illinois at Chicago "Doxing and the Dark Web: Detecting, measuring and addressing malicious Information disclosures online"
June 28, 2016 Debbie James, Governors State University "Facebook for community, direct action and archive: Diaspora response to the 2014 floods in the Balkans"
May 17, 2016 Frances Kostarelos, Governors State University "Farming and the Greek economy in a time of crises: A multifunctional approach
April 26, 2016 Robin Zavod, Midwestern University "All things ENERGY – A primer on B Vitamins"
March 29, 2016 Matt Wohlever, University of Chicago “Say cheese and die: What ‘protein photography’ is teaching us about cell suicide."
February 23, 2016 Oscene Barrett, Governors State University “Understanding the Minute: Key to Solving the Complex."
January 26, 2016 John Joel Knapper, NASA Solar System Ambassador “Pluto: The Discovery, its demotion, and the early results from the New Horizons Mission.”
November 24, 2015 Andrae Marak, Governors State University “Women, Gender, and Subordination: The Tohono O’odham and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1900-1934.”
October 27, 2015 Douglas Chien, Friends of the Forest Preserves “Ecological Restoration is not Rocket Science--It's Harder.”
September 29, 2015 Kathryn Nagy, University of Illinois at Chicago “Mercury in Urban Soil - Not In My BackYard?”
June 30, 2015 Christine Tromley, Joliet Junior College, “Young, Massive Star Clusters; The Milky Way and Beyond.”
May 26, 2015 Paul Carvey, Rush University Medical Center "I’m Addicted to Love - The Neurobiology of Love and Affection"
April 28, 2015 Robin Zavod, Midwestern University "Consider you Health Investment Strategies; a Focus on Fat Soluble Vitamins"
March 24, 2015 Peter Doran, Louisiana State University "Antarctica, Lakes, Robots and other Icy Worlds"
February 24, 2015 Priscilla Frisch, University of Chicago "Journey of the Sun: Our Changing Interstellar Environment"
January 27, 2015 Max Burkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago "Where Air and Ice Meet: Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Processes
November 25, 2014 Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory "Adventures in Your Microbial World"
October 28, 2014 Ted Anton, DePaul University "Forever Young, the Science and Business Race to Extend Healthful Life"
Sept 23, 2014 Peggy Mason, University of Chicago "Helping Another in Need: Lessons from Rats"
June 24, 2014 William Van Bonn, John G. Shedd Aquarium "What's So Special About Whales (and Dolpins and Sea Lions"
May 27, 2014 John List, University of Chicago "The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life"
April 29, 2014 D'Arcy Meyer Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago "Extreme Environments on Earth: Portals to Habitats on Early Earth and Other Planets"
March 25, 2014 Nick Epley, University of Chicago "Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want"
February 20, 2014 Chris McKay, NASA Ames Reserch Center "The Search for a Second Genesis of Life in the Solar System"
December 17, 2013 Alex Ruthenburg, University of Chicago "Lamarck Lives! "The Molecules and Mechanisms of Epigenetics"
November 26, 2013 Robert Martin, The Field Museum "How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction"
October 23, 2013 Michael Meyer, NASA Headquarters "Mars: Back to the Future'
September 24, 2013 Roy Plotnick, University of Illinois at Chicago "Ancient Caves of Illinois"
August 27, 2013 Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago "Jamming, Soft Robots, and Evolutionary Computation"
May 28, 2013 Allen Sanderson, University of Chicago "Does Money Really Buy Happiness?"
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 Mayer, 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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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Starting the HF Science Pub