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Fall 2014 Calendar of events |
Wednesday, September 17 |
UT Arlington Library Focus on Faculty
12-1:30 p.m.
Central Library
Sixth Floor Parlor
Guest speaker will be Samarendra Mohanty, assistant professor of physics and head of the UTA Biophysics and Physiology Lab. His lecture is titled “Light-controlled construction, control, and understanding of neuronal circuits”.
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Friday, October 3 |
College of Science Picnic
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Library Mall
Come by for hamburgers, hot dogs and other goodies and support the College of Science!
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Wednesday, October 29 |
Last day to drop classes; submit requests to advisors prior to 4 p.m.
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Monday, November 3-Friday, November 7 |
Science Week 2014
The College of Science spotlights the achievements of its alumni, students and faculty with a week of special events.
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Monday November 3 |
Registration begins for Spring 2015 semester
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Thursday-Friday, Nov 27-28 |
Thanksgiving holidays
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Wednesday, December 3 |
Last day of classes for Fall 2014 semester
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December 6, 8-12 |
Final exams |
Friday, December 12 |
College of Science Fall 2014 Commencement
3 p.m. College Park Center
The College of Science will celebrate its newest group of graduates with the Fall 2014 graduation ceremony.
Complete information coming soon. |
College of Science Seminar/Colloquia Schedule Fall 2014 |
Biology
All seminars are at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in Life Science Building, Room 118 except seminar on October 2.
September 25
Speaker: John W. Fondon, III, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UT Arlington
Title: Dynamic genomes: uncovering the influence of mutation spectra on the adaptive processes in vertebrates
Host: Thomas Chrzanowski
October 2
Speaker: Amelia Shevenell, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Marine Science
Title: The Southern Ocean Reveals its Climate Secrets: Paleotemperatures from Antarctic Margin Marine Sediments
Host: Laura Mydlarz
*Location: GS 100 (Geoscience Building)
October 9
Speaker: Randal Halfmann, Sara and Frank McKnight Fellow, UT Southwestern, Biochemistry
Title: TBA
October 9
Speaker: Randal Halfmann, Sara and Frank McKnight Fellow, UT Southwestern, Biochemistry
Title: TBA
Host: Trey Fondon
October 16
Speaker: Joe Barrera, SIRT Director, UT Arlington
Title: Innovation through the Shimadzu Institute: Quantification of Trace Estrogens in Serum by Bulk Derivatization and Direct Cation Exchange Trap-and-Elute LC/MS/MS
Host: Jeff Demuth
November 6, 2014
Speaker: Thomas DeWitt, Associate Professor, Texas A&M, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences and Department of Plant Pathology &Microbiology
Title: Predators drive replicated phenotypic evolution in prey fishes
Host: Matt Walsh
November 13
Speaker: Aaron Bauer, Professor and Gerald M. Lemole Endowed Chair in Integrative Biology, Villanova University
Title: TBA
Host: Phi Sigma Daren Card
November 20
Speaker: Adam Leaché, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Biology
Title: TBA
Host: Matthew Fujita
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
All seminars are at 3 p.m. on Fridays in W. A. Baker Chemistry Research Building, Room 114. Refreshments will be served before each seminar at 2:45 p.m. in CRB Room 112.
September 5 – Professor Timothy S. Snowden, University of Alabama, Title: “New Reactions and Synthesis Strategies Involving Ephemeral gem-Dichloroepoxide Intermediates”
September 12 – Professor Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Title: "Transition Metals and the Host-Pathogen Interaction"
September 19 – Professor Eamonn F. Healy, St. Edward’s University, Title: "A Role for Desolvation in Protein Aggregation and Oligomeric Assembly"
September 26 – Professor Jung-Mo Ahn, UT Dallas, Title: "Structure-Based Design of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Protein-Protein Interactions in Biomedical Research"
October 3 – UTA Chemistry & Biochemistry Society Poster Contest
October 10 – Professor Onofrio Annunziata, Texas Christian University, Title: "Migration of Macromolecules Induced by Salt-Concentration Gradients in Water"
October 17 – Professor Christopher Hobbs, Angelo State University, Title: "Polypropylene Based Oligomers as Synthetic Scaffolds Toward Supported Catalysts”
October 24 – Professor Lingjun Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Title: "Expanding the Chemical Toolbox to Probe Neuronal Signaling"
October 31 – Professor YiQiang (Eric) Cheng, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Title: “Genomics-Guided Discovery of Potent Anticancer Natural Products from Exotic Bacterial Species”
November 7 – Professor Yinsheng Wang, University of California, Riverside, Title: “Quantitative Proteomics for research in Cancer Biology and Environmental Toxicology”
November 14 – Professor Yaron Paz, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Title: "Preferential Photocatalytic Degradation of Contaminants"
November 21 – Professor Boniface Fokwa, Aachen University, Germany, Title: "Understanding and Designing New Magnetic Materials”
November 28 – No seminar; Thanksgiving holiday |
Earth & Environmental Science
All sessions are at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in Geoscience Building Room 100.
September 18 – Jim Davidson, Netherland, Sewell and Associates, Inc. (NSAI) in Dallas, Title: “The False Promise of High-End Technology in Thin Bed Formation Analysis”
September 25 – Bob Finkleman, UT Dallas, Title: “Medical Geology”
October 2 – Amelia Shevenell, University of South Florida/University College, London, Title: TBA
October 9 – Dilhan Ilk, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Title: TBA
October 16 – Shaffiq A. Jaffer, TOTAL Corporate scientific representative in the U.S., Title: TBA
October 23 – TBA
October 30 – Peter Eichhubl, Bureau of Economic Geology, Title: TBA
November 6 – TBA
November 13 – Julia Gale, Bureau of Economic Geology, Title: TBA
November 20 – Tim Shanahan, UT Austin, Title: TBA |
Mathematics
Colloquia are at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays in Science Hall Room 101 unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments are served 30 minutes prior to each talk in the Physics library.
September 3 – Wei Chen, Kaushik De, Ping Liu, Ramon Lopez, Zdzislaw Musielak, and Mingwu Jin, UT Arlington, Title: “Physics Faculty Research Expo #2”
September 10 – Qiming Zhang, Jaehoon Yu, Andrew White, Alex Weiss, Samarendra Mohanty, Ali Koymen, and Chris Jackson, UT Arlington, Title: “Physics Faculty Research Expo #2”
September 16 – (4 p.m. Tuesday, SH 103) Haleh Hadavand, UT Arlington, Title: “Properties of the Higgs like Particle at 125 GeV and Beyond Standard Model Higgs Using the ATLAS Experiment”
September 17 – Manfred Cuntz, UT Arlington, Title: “UV Habitability around Main-Sequence Stars”
September 24 – TBA |
Psychology
Thursday, October 2 – Rodney Lowman, American Psychological Association, Title: TBA
Friday, October 24 – David Self, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Title: TBA
Friday, November 2 – Christa McIntyre Rodriguez, UT Dallas, Title: TBA |
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