Science Hall Seminars
Science Hall Seminars
Science Hall Seminars: Spring 2024
All students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the Fall 2023 seminars organized and sponsored by the Departments of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Physics & Astronomy, as well as the U-RISE@Rowan program. Thank you to all of the amazing speakers who will be presenting this semester!
Friday, January 26, 2024
Careers in Health Physics
Speakers: Ashli Nieves, James Hambour, Candace Krout (Delaware Valley Society for Radiation Health Safety)
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126
Sponsored By: Physics & Astronomy
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Understanding Stellar Explosions with Nuclear Physics
Speaker: Catherine Deibel, PhD (Louisiana State University, Professor of Physics)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall, Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Physics & Astronomy
Monday, February 5, 2024
From Cheese to Chocolate, a Food Engineer's Journey
Speaker: Meghan Keck, Ph.D. (Global Chocolate R & D, Process Development Engineer, Mars-Wrigley)
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall, Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Dept. of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
High-Throughput 'Omics to Advance Equity of Alzheimer's Disease
Speaker: Renã Robinson, PhD (Vanderbilt University, Department of Chemistry)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Nanoparticle-enhanced nanopore detection of ovarian cancer-marking peptides
Speaker: Joseph Reiner, PhD (Professor and Chair, Department of Physics Virgina Commonwealth University)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale in Thin-Film Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
Speaker: Dierdre O'Carroll, Ph.D. (Rutgers Unviersity, Department of Material Science & Engineering and Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Physics & Astronomy
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Illuminating the monoamine transporters: High affinity fluorescently labelled ligands to study dopamine and norepinephrine transporters
Speaker: Gisela Andrea Camacho Hernandez, PhD (Post-doctoral IRTA Fellow, Medicinal Chemistry Section,NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, U-RISE Program
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Career Paths in Biomedical Fields: Panel & Networking Event
Panel: Gisela Andrea Camacho Hernandez, PhD; Jennifer Lofland, PhD; & Cassie Tran, PhD
Time: 12:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Business 104 (In-person only)
Sponsored By: U-RISE Program
Monday, March 4, 2024
Great Job or Greatest Job? Management and Stewardship of a Biological Field Station
Speaker: Jennifer Hunter, PhD (Resident Director, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkely)
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Addressing Materials Challenges and the Future of Additive Manufacturing
Speaker: Todd Palmer, PhD (Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Physics & Astronomy
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Tuning Cell Signaling with Synthetic Biology
Speaker: Zara Weinberg, Ph.D. (Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of California San Fransico)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: U-RISE Program, Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Monday, March 18, 2024
Animal Lover? Consider a Career in Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education
Speaker: Ally Reagle, B.S. (Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital Shift Supervisor, Environmental Educator, Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge)
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Dept. of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
How Plants Us Soil Microbes to Obtain Nutrients and as Growth Stimulants
Speaker: James White, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, Professor, Department of Plant Biology & Pathology)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Dept. of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Friday, March 22, 2024
Over the Misty Mountains Cold: Studying Martian Clouds
Speaker: David Klassen, Ph.D. (Rowan University, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy)
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Dept. of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Monday, March 25, 2024
A Day in the Life of a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Scientist
Speaker: Albert Carrette, M.S., M(ASCP) (Corporate Microbiology Manager, Virtua Health)
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Dept. of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Green Chemistry: From Biosourced and Bioinspired Organic Semiconductors to Ball Milling Mechanochemistry
Speaker: Toby Nelson, PhD (Research Associate Professor, Clean Manufacturing and Advanced Materials, The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovative Institute, Department of Chemistry)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
To be announced
Speaker: Craig Arnold, Ph.D. (Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Physics & Astronomy
Monday, April 8, 2024
To be announced
Speaker: Albert Carrette, MS, M(ASCP) (Corporate Microbiology Manager, Virtua Health, Vorhees, NJ, USA)
Time: 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126
Sponsored By: Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Microenvironmental Regulation of Vascular Formation and Regeneration
Speaker: Sharon Gerecht, PhD (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Dean For Research and Infrastructure, Duke University)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Biological & Biomedical Sciences; U-RISE Program
CANCELED: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
CANCELED: Wade in the Water: Perspectives on Diversity in Ecology & Environmental Science
Speaker: Ambrose Jerald Jr., PhD (Marine Biologist, NOAA, Retired)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Phenotypic Plasticity and Adaptive Diversification in Threespine Stickleback Fish
Speaker: Matt Wund, PhD (Professor of Biology, TCNJ)
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Location: Science Hall Room 126 & Zoom
Sponsored By: Biological & Biomedical Sciences
