UCS Events for Spring 2005

Date:	Event	Description
January 25- February 2	Electronic Kit sales	Our yearly fundraising event it to sell electronic kits to the students taking CHE 304.  We will be meeting sometime during these two weeks to sort electronic parts that will go in the kits.
April 7^th	Professor Koch and Millar's Liquid nitrogen demonstration	Many people don't know about all of the fun and exciting chemical process that occur in the lab.  In this demonstration, professor Koch and Millar bananas and gram crackers, inhale helium, make ice cream with liquid nitrogen, and detonate explosive hydrogen balloons.
April 19^th	Marc Lesnick Career workshop	Stony Brook alumni Marc Lesnick will conduct a workshop describing how to succeed in the chemistry field. He will discuss his own experience as a chemist. He will discuss the process by which one obtains a job in the chemistry field, resume writing, and much more. This event will take place in room 412 of the chemistry building.  Refreshments will be served at 5:45 and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm.
April 21^st	Elections	Elections will be held in room 410 at 7:000pm. Prior to elections we will meet at 5:30 in room 410 to build our Roth Regatta Boat.
April 29	Roth Pond Regatta	This year the UCS is planning to race a boat in the annual regatta in Roth pond. We will need to design, build and then decorate a boat. The boat must be made completely out of cardboard and duct-tape. We will be working on the boat during our normal meeting times.
May 3^rd	Dale Dreuckhammer presents his research on molecular sensors	Professor Dale Drueckhammer will give a presentation of his research.  Professor Drueckhammer's research group uses computer modeling to design molecular receptors (molecules that recognize and bind to a particular molecule in the presence of different molecules).  His most recent project involves the design and synthesis of a glucose sensing molecule.  Laboratory testing show that this molecule can be used to detect the glucose levels in solution.  This event will take place in room 412 of the chemistry building.  Refreshments will be served at 6:00pm and the lecture will be begin at 6:15.

HERA Group events for Spring 2005

HERA is a Stony Brook affiliated non-profit organization started by Isaac Pflaum to promote science education
 and fund community outreach programs aimed at educating education.If you are intrested in the HERA group,
Contact Isaac Pflaum at http://heragroup.org/com/open.php Also you can find more information
about HERA group on http://heragroup.org

Date:	Event	Description
February 18^th	Annual meeting	The HERA Group annual meeting will be in the Wang Center, room 102. Refreshments will be served at 4 pm followed by the presentation of HERA Group's annual report and a reception at 8 pm.
February 21^st	Interviews for HERA board	Artists, writers, graphic designers, computer scientists, editors and persons with managerial, clerical and accounting education are encouraged to apply for positions of the HERA group board.  To schedule an interview, email isaac@ipflaum.com. Please include your full name, phone number and your objectives in contributing to HERA Group.
March 3^rd	Lecture with Michael Axelrod	Michael Axelrod is the Manager of the Life Sciences greenhouse.  He will conduct a lecture on horticulture and etnobotany in the Wang center room 102.
April 27th	Dr. Futuyma presents: "Evolution: Fact or Theory?"	Dr. Futuyma has been a Guggenheim and a Fulbright Fellow, the President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists, and the editor of Evolution. He is the author of the successful textbook Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Futuyma will discuss the evolution controversy from a scientific perspective.
April 30^th	Dr.Micheal Bell presents the "Evolutionary Processes and Pattern in Stickleback Fish."	Dr. Bell will discuss the interaction of natural selection and genetic variation and the ecology and genetics of natural selection and evolution. This talk is a combination of a lesson on how natural selection works and how we can see the results of natural selection in real evolutionary lineages of threespine stickleback fish. At the end, Dr. Bell will explain why these processes impact every person's life.
May 13^th	Dr. Pigliucci presents: "How We Try to Understand the World: Science, Philosophy, and Religion"	Human beings have always attempted to explain the world around them using religion, philosophy and, more recently, science. In this talk, Dr. Pigliucci examines the differences, strengths and limitations of science, philosophy and religion, while attempting to understand how they relate to each other.

Updated April 13rd 2005