Hudson
Valley
Science Café -
Speaker Schedule 2007
Science Cafes are informal meetings
held in cafes, usually once a month,
for the discussion of important and interesting scientific issues. They are open
to the public. The first “Cafes Scientifiques” were held in
the
UK
in Leeds
in 1998. From there, cafes gradually spread
throughout the UK
and the rest of the world. Currently, over 150
cafes meet regularly to hear scientists talk about their work and discuss it
with diverse audiences.
A
wide range of issues relating to science and technology have included such
topics as climate change, the chemistry of chocolate, issues and obstacles of
nanotechnology, biodiversity, cancer risk
factors, consciousness, Darwinism, why some marriages succeed and others
fail, genetically modified organisms and more. A Science Café for the
Hudson
Valley
will be
located at 280 Broadway in Newburgh, NY. Newburgh
is centrally located, less than 1 hour from most of
Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,
Orange, Ulster, and
Dutchess counties in
New York, as well as parts of
Northern
New Jersey
and
Western
Connecticut. If you
would like to be added to the email list to learn about speakers, suggest
speakers, or if you have experience speaking to the public (and a topic of
general interest), please email me.
Further
information about Science Cafes can be found at http://www.cafescientifique.org/north%20america-links.htm
Contact Person: Toby
G. Rossman, Ph.D., Professor
of Environmental Medicine, NYU
School
of
Medicine, rossman@env.med.nyu.edu
Schedule - 2007
4/24
Characteristics and health effects of the World Trade Center dust (George
Thurston, Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of
Medicine)
5/22 Inherent gender
differences in science/math abilities (a critical analysis) (Alison Nash,
Professor and Giordana Grossi, Asst. Professor, Dept. Psychology, SUNY
New Paltz)
6/26 Renewable
energy (William Makofske, Prof. Emeritus of Physics and Environmental
Sciences, Ramapo College)
7/24 The psychology
of middle age (Lawrence Force, Professor of Pychology, and Paul Schwartz,
Professor of Pychology, Mount St. Mary College)
For your information, here are some
other commitments I have for speakers:
A chemist looks at
the origin of life (Bob Shapiro, Chemistry, NYU)
The toxicology of Polonium-210 (Beverly Cohen, Env. Med., NYU)
Is it possible to create a vaccine against HIV? (Arthur Nadas, Env. Med., NYU)
The psychology of belief in pseudoscientific and paranormal claims (Terrence
Hines, Psych. , Pace U)
Overqualification and its impact on employee attitudes and behaviors (Maynard,
Psych., New Paltz)
Genetic alterations in Hudson River fish (Ike Wirgin, Env. Med., NYU)
Promises and pitfalls of human genotyping (Ron Snyder, Schearing Plough Res.
Institute, Summit, NJ)
The environment and cancer (Toby Rossman, Env. Med., NYU)
The criminalization of mental illness (Zebulon Taintor, Nathan Kline
Institute)
The biology of skin aging
(Gopinathan K. Menon, PhD, Avon Products, Inc)
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