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 2008-2009 ACCA Seminar Series
Current ACCA Seminars in Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science are listed below. Following those are several
past seminars if you are interested in learning more about ACCA
activities.
FALL 2008 BIOLOGY
SEMINAR "INVASIVE SPECIES"
Schedule will be posted when available. Seminar will be held at
Benedictine University on Tuesday evenings (7:00-9:00) from mid-September
until the end of November. The series is coordinated by Dr. Jerry
Kavouras of Lewis University.
FALL 2008 CHEMISTRY
SEMINAR "NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY"
Schedule will be posted when available. Seminar will be held at
Benedictine University on Tuesday evenings (7:00-9:00) from mid-September
until the end of November. The series is coordinated by Dr. Paul
Brandt of North Central College.
PREVIOUS ACCA
SEMINARS - FOR INFORMATION
Associated Colleges of
the
Chicago
Area
Chemical and Biological
Microscopy
The
College
of
Microscopy
welcomes ACCA chemistry and biology students and faculty to a Spring
Seminar Series.
The
Spring Seminar Series will be held in the new
College
of
Microscopy
auditorium in The McCrone Group facility at
850 Pasquinelli Drive
,
Westmont
,
IL
60559
.
 For directions, visit www.collegeofmicroscopy.com
and go to ”Area Info.”
Beginning
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
, from
7:00 p.m.
to
9:00 p.m.
, the 10- week series will be held each Tuesday evening through
April 8, 2008
.
Each
evening will feature an instructor from the faculty of The College of
Microscopy or a senior scientist from McCrone Associates.
Biographical information about each instructor can be found by
clicking on “Instructors” on the home page of www.collegeofmicroscopy.com.
Each
evening will be filled with lecture (theory, practice, equipment, sampling
and application), demonstrations and illustrative examples from industry.
If
you have any specific questions regarding directions or the series
content, feel free to contact Chuck Zona, Dean,
College
of
Microscopy
, at 630-887-7100 or email czona@mccrone.com.
Spring Seminar Series
Subject Matter
|
Week
|
Date
|
Subject
|
Topics
|
Instructor
|
|
1
|
5
Feb
|
Polarized
Light Microscopy
|
Light
Microscopy
Basics
of Polarized Light
Sample
Preparation
Materials
Identification
Microchemical
Testing
|
Scott
Stoeffler
|
|
2
|
12
Feb
|
Contrast
Enhancement
|
Oblique
illumination
Darkfield
& Rheinberg
Phase
contrast
Interference
contrast
Fluorescence
microscopy
|
John
Delly
|
|
3
|
19
Feb
|
Photomicrography
& Digital Imaging
|
Photographic
methods
Illumination
techniques
Scientific
imaging
Photomicrography
Image
manipulation
|
Joe
Barabe
|
|
4
|
26
Feb
|
Microspectroscopy
|
FTIR
microscopy
Raman
microscopy
Biomedical
IR microscopy
Integrating
light microscopy with microspectroscopy
|
Gretchen
Shearer
|
|
5
|
4
Mar
|
Scanning
Electron Microscopy
|
Secondary
and backscatter imaging
X-ray
microanalysis
Automated
particle analysis
Food
and beverage cans
|
Wayne
Niemeyer
|
|
6
|
11
Mar
|
Transmission
Electron Microscopy
|
Theory
Instruments
Sampling
Analysis
Nano-materials
|
Elaine
Schumacher
|
|
7
|
18
Mar
|
Forensic
Microscopy
|
C.S.I.
Effect
Associative
evidence
Microscopy
of trace evidence
|
Dick
Bisbing
|
|
8
|
25
Mar
|
Weapons
of Mass Destruction
|
History
First
response
Instruments
White
powders
Chemical
weapons
Biological
weapons
|
Chuck
Zona
Mike
Whiteside
(Concordia)
|
|
9
|
1
Apr
|
Aquatic
Microscopy
|
Hydrographic
maps
Water
chemistry
Seasonal
effects
Invertebrate
survey
Arbor
Lake
survey
|
John
Delly
|
|
10
|
8
Apr
|
Art
and Archaeology
|
Materials
and methods
Sampling
Materials
analysis
Paintings
Documents
Authentication
|
Joe
Barabe
|
Associated
Colleges of the Chicago Area
**Fall,
2007, Chemistry Seminar
Location:
Benedictine University
Birck 112
Tuesdays, 9/11 to 11/13
Topic:
COSMETIC CHEMISTRY
Graduate
Credit for this ACCA Lecture Series is being offered by Olivet Nazarene
University. Contact Dr. Douglas Armstrong for additional
information: darmstrg@olivet.edu
or by phone at: 815-939-5393
Fall
2007 ACCA Biology Seminar
Biogeography
10
Tuesdays, September 11 –
November 13, 2007; 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Birck
Science
Building
, Room BK-218
Benedictine
University
5700 College Road
,
Lisle
,
IL
60532
Coordinator
William
N. Carvell, Department of Biological Sciences,
St.
Xavier
University
carvell@sxu.edu
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September 11
THE BREADFRUIT TRAIL: UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN-MEDIATED
DISPERSAL OF AN OCEANIC CROP
Dr. Nyree Zerega,
Chicago
Botanic Garden
·
September 18
GEOGRAPHY OF PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS
Dr. William Burger, Department of Botany, The
Field
Museum
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September 25
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF NEOTROPICAL BIRDS
Dr. John Bates, Department of Zoology, The
Field
Museum
·
October 2
CLIMATE CHANGE
IMPACTS ON TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
IN THE GEOLOGIC PAST
Dr. Francesca Smith, Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
·
October 9
BIOGEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN POLLINATOR-PLANT INTERACTION,
A PENSTEMON CASE STUDY.
Dr. Jeremie Fant,
Chicago
Botanic Garden
·
October 16
TITLE PENDING
Dr. David Jablonski, Department of Geophysical Sciences
The
University
of
Chicago
·
October 23
THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICAN MAMMALS
Dr. Bruce Patterson, Department of Zoology, The
Field
Museum
·
October 30
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF FLOWERING PLANTS
Sir Peter R. Crane, Department of Geophysical Sciences,
The
University
of
Chicago
·
November 6
PLANT DIVERSITY IN THE SINO-HIMALAYA, AND THE
EVOLUTION OF
SPECIES
RANGES
THROUGH TIME
Dr. Richard Ree, Department of Botany, The
Field
Museum
·
November 13
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF MUSHROOMS AND OTHER MACROFUNGI
Dr. Greg Mueller,
Department of Botany, The
Field
Museum
**Fall, 2007 Computer Science Seminar
BIOINFORMATICS
The ACCA 2007 fall seminar series on
bioinformatics will run on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at
Dominican University in the Rebecca Crown library, room Crown 310A.
It will begin on September 11 and run through November 6.
As the use of computers is transforming biological
research, this should be a very interesting seminar series, offering CS
students insight into the work being done in biology that is facilitated
by computing. It would also be informative to biology students, who
are also welcome to attend.
Please let me know as soon as possible whether
your school will be participating, and if so, whether by sending students
to Dominican or via remote connection. Contact me through email at jhelwig@dom.edu
In addition, for those who are going to connect
remotely, please contact our media specialist, Daniel Martin, at dmartin@dom.edu.
For each remote site, he will need to know contact information for ht
technical coordinator, the IP address of the video conferencing system,
and if possible, the brand of video conferencing system that will be
used. I hope to have a website up later this week that will provide
information on each week's topic and speaker.
Janet Helwig
**Spring 2008 - Seminar in Biology and
Chemistry - SELECTED TOPICS IN MICROSCOPY
Offered at McCrone/College of Microscopy
(Westmont, IL)
Tuesdays, February 5 - April 8, 2008
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Associated Colleges of
the
Chicago
Area
Chemical and Biological
Microscopy
The
College
of
Microscopy
welcomes ACCA chemistry and biology students and faculty to a Spring
Seminar Series.
The
Spring Seminar Series will be held in the new
College
of
Microscopy
auditorium in The McCrone Group facility at
850 Pasquinelli Drive
,
Westmont
,
IL
60559
.
 For directions, visit www.collegeofmicroscopy.com
and go to ”Area Info.”
Beginning
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
, from
7:00 p.m.
to
9:00 p.m.
, the 10- week series will be held each Tuesday evening through
April 8, 2008
.
Each
evening will feature an instructor from the faculty of The College of
Microscopy or a senior scientist from McCrone Associates.
Biographical information about each instructor can be found by
clicking on “Instructors” on the home page of www.collegeofmicroscopy.com.
Each
evening will be filled with lecture (theory, practice, equipment, sampling
and application), demonstrations and illustrative examples from industry.
If
you have any specific questions regarding directions or the series
content, feel free to contact Chuck Zona, Dean,
College
of
Microscopy
, at 630-887-7100 or email czona@mccrone.com.
Spring Seminar Series
Subject Matter
|
Week
|
Date
|
Subject
|
Topics
|
Instructor
|
|
1
|
5
Feb
|
Polarized
Light Microscopy
|
Light
Microscopy
Basics
of Polarized Light
Sample
Preparation
Materials
Identification
Microchemical
Testing
|
Scott
Stoeffler
|
|
2
|
12
Feb
|
Contrast
Enhancement
|
Oblique
illumination
Darkfield
& Rheinberg
Phase
contrast
Interference
contrast
Fluorescence
microscopy
|
John
Delly
|
|
3
|
19
Feb
|
Photomicrography
& Digital Imaging
|
Photographic
methods
Illumination
techniques
Scientific
imaging
Photomicrography
Image
manipulation
|
Joe
Barabe
|
|
4
|
26
Feb
|
Microspectroscopy
|
FTIR
microscopy
Raman
microscopy
Biomedical
IR microscopy
Integrating
light microscopy with microspectroscopy
|
Gretchen
Shearer
|
|
5
|
4
Mar
|
Scanning
Electron Microscopy
|
Secondary
and backscatter imaging
X-ray
microanalysis
Automated
particle analysis
Food
and beverage cans
|
Wayne
Niemeyer
|
|
6
|
11
Mar
|
Transmission
Electron Microscopy
|
Theory
Instruments
Sampling
Analysis
Nano-materials
|
Elaine
Schumacher
|
|
7
|
18
Mar
|
Forensic
Microscopy
|
C.S.I.
Effect
Associative
evidence
Microscopy
of trace evidence
|
Dick
Bisbing
|
|
8
|
25
Mar
|
Weapons
of Mass Destruction
|
History
First
response
Instruments
White
powders
Chemical
weapons
Biological
weapons
|
Chuck
Zona
Mike
Whiteside
(Concordia)
|
|
9
|
1
Apr
|
Aquatic
Microscopy
|
Hydrographic
maps
Water
chemistry
Seasonal
effects
Invertebrate
survey
Arbor
Lake
survey
|
John
Delly
|
|
10
|
8
Apr
|
Art
and Archaeology
|
Materials
and methods
Sampling
Materials
analysis
Paintings
Documents
Authentication
|
Joe
Barabe
|
PREVIOUS
SEMINARS - FOR INFORMATION
Spring,
2007 Biology Seminar
Location:
Benedictine University
Birck 112 – Tellabs lecture hall (large
room just inside front door of Birck Hall
of Science)
Tuesdays: 7:00-9:00 PM (except for field trips)
Title:
Selective and Contemporary Topics in Nutrition
02-06-07
A Physician Perspective on the Role of Nutrition in the Prevention
of Diseases
Dr.
John M. Saran, M.D., F.A.C.P., Edward Medical Group
02-13-07
The Diet and Alzheimer Disease
Dr.
John M. Saran, M.D., F.A.C.P., Edward Medical Group
02-20-07
Supplementation and Weight Loss
Dr.
Craig E. Broeder, Ph.D., Benedictine University
02-27-07
Eating Disorders on the Firing Line
Ms.
Mary Weeden, RN, MSW, Aurora University
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