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Spring 2009

• Batteries, Transportation, and Climate Change: Why your Future car will be electric.
  Yet-Ming Chiang, Materials Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  April 18th, 2009

Fall 2008

• The Physics of Golf
  Robert Grober, Physicist
  October 4th, 2008

• What's in Your Glass of Water?
  William Mitch, Environmental Engineer
  October 11th, 2008  

• Why Do Butterflies Have "Eyes" on Their Wings?
  Antonia Monteiro, Evolutionary Biologist
  October 17th, 2008

• Molecules that Walk, Shuffle, and Carry Things Around
  Anna Pyle, Molecular Biophysicist

          October 25th, 2008

Spring 2008

• Wheeled Machines that Balance: The Segway Personal Transporter and the Segway Robotic Mobility Platform
  John Morrell, Mechanical Engineer
  April 5th, 2008

• Using Magnets to Look at Molecules
  Kurt Zilm, Chemist
  April 12th, 2008

• If The Walls Could Think: Smart Materials in Buildings
  Michelle Addington, Architect & Engineer
  April 19th, 2008

• Viruses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  Paul Turner, Evolutionary Biologist
  April 26th, 2008

Spring 2007

• Magnets, Molecules, and Radio Waves: Using Magnetic Resonance to Image Molecules, Cells, and the Human Body
  Kurt Zilm, Chemist
  March 31st, 2007


• Scents and Sensibility: The Molecular Mechanisms of Olfaction
  Charles Greer, Neuroscientist
  April 14th, 2007


• Metals with Memories and Other Smart Materials
  Ainissa G. Ramirez, Materials Scientist
  April 21st, 2007

Fall 2006

• How Astronomers Discovered the Universe Is Flying Apart Faster and Faster
  C. Meg Urry, Astronomer
  October 14th, 2006


• Medical Metals
  Ann Valentine, Chemist
  October 21st, 2006

Fall 2005

• The Evolution of Birds: Why Birds are Dinosaurs
  Richard Prum, Biologist
  October 8th, 2005


• Mr. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters
  Steven M. Girvin, Physicist
  October 15th, 2005


• Science in the Swamps: What Frogs are Telling us
  David Skelly, Biologist
  October 22nd, 2005


• How to See a Black Hole
  Charles Bailyn, Astronomer
  October 29th, 2005

Spring 2005

• Emotional Intelligence: Is There Anything To It?
  Peter Salovey, Psychologist
  March 26th, 2005


• Mapping the Universe: A Quest for Dark Matter
  Priya Natarajan, Astronomer
  April 2nd, 2005


• Weird New Life on Earth
  Michael Donoghue, Biologist
  April 9th, 2005


• Tissue Engineering: Growing New Organs in a Dish
  Erin Lavik, Biomedical Engineer
  April 16th, 2005