CAS Calendar of Events

(Unless otherwise noted, all events are free of charge and open to the public)

April
2
Event: Ethics Center Lecture
Topic: “Science, Ethics, and Politics: Are They Compatible?”
Location: 210 Bernhard Center
Time: 7 p.m.
4
Event: Lecture: “Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History”
Speaker: Dipesh Chakrabarty Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Professor of South Asian languages and Cultures at the University of Chicago
Location: 3508 Knauss Hall
Time: 2 p.m.
Sponsors: WMU Visiting Scholar Program, the Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of English, Department of Foreign Languages and Gender & Women’s Studies

Event: Biological Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Robert Yancey, Ph.D.,
Research Fellow, Pfizer Global Animal Health, Richland, MI
Topic: “Vaccine Adjuvants – Can’t Live Without Them”
Location: 1718 Wood Hall
Time: 3:30 to 4:50 p.m.

Event: Michigan Geographical Bee
Location: Bernhard Center
Time:
7
Event: Geosciences Seminar
Speaker: Lynn Walter, University of Michigan
Topic: TBA
Location: 1118 Rood Hall
Time: 4 p.m.
9
Event: Werner Sichel Economics Lecture-Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr. Linda Tesar, University of Michigan
Topic: “The Composition of Allocation of Global Financial Flows: What are Markets Doing?”
Location: 3508 Knauss Hall
Time: 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Event: Michigan Basin Geological Society BBQ Dinner and Talk
Location: The Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education
Time: 6 to 9:30 p.m.
10
Event: Department of History Presents the 2008 H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture
Speaker: H Bruce Franklin
Topic: “War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination”
Location: Fetzer Center
Time: 7:30 p.m.
11
Event: Physics Lecture
Speaker: Sylvester Jim Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland
Topic: “SUSY & the Lords of the Ring”
Location: Kirsh Auditorium, Fetzer Center
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m. – Public Talk (followed by time for questions)

Event: Biological Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Yin-Long Qiu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Topic: “Diversity, Phylogeny and Development: a Natural History of Lifecycles in Land Plants”
Location: 1718 Wood Hall
Time: 3:30 to 4:50 p.m.

Event: Physics Lecture
Speaker: Sylvester Jim Gates, John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland
Topic: “SUSY & the Lords of the Ring”
Location: Kirsh Auditorium, Fetzer Ctr.
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
14
Event: Biology Seminar
Speaker: Michael Henshaw, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor Biology Department, Grand Valley State University
Topic: “The evolution of multiple queen societies in social wasps”
Location: 1718 Wood Hall
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Event: Geosciences Seminar
Speaker: Dr. David McConnell and Dr. David Steer, University of Akron
Topic: TBA
Location: 1118 Rood Hall
Time: 4 p.m.

Event: Physics Colloquium
Speaker: Robert Manweiler, Valparaiso University
Topic: “Hans Bethe - Master Calculator and Gentleman of Science”
Location: 1110 Rood Hall
Time: 4 p.m. with refreshments at 3:30 in Bradley Commons, 2202 Everett Tower
15
Event: Women’s Caucus presents Tenure and Promotion Workshop
Location: 157 Bernhard Center
Time: 12 to 2 p.m.
(Dean Tom Kent will attend from 1-2 p.m.
17
Event: Gwen Frostic Reading Series
Speaker: Novelist Paula Nangle, and poet and essayist John Rybicki
Location: WMU Little Theatre
Time: 8 p.m.
18
Event: Copper Erratic (Boulder) Dedication
Location: Rood Hall
Time: 4 p.m.

May
24
Event: Emeriti Event
Speaker: President Emeritus Diether Haenicke
Topic: “WMU after 20 years: Memories and Hopes”
Location: Emeriti Lounge, Walwood Hall
Time: 2 p.m.

Updated 4/1/08

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