Renewed Perspectives: 2nd Annual Renewable Energy Forum - Distilling the Truth on Ethanol
Sponsored By: EcoWatch
Thursday, December 7, 2006
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
This year's forum will focus on research, policies, and utilization of ethanol and biofuels in Minnesota. For further information, check here.
Science on Screen
Bell Museum Auditorium
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 7 p.m.
$3-10 (pay what you can)
The Bell Museum and EcoWatch present a special screening and appearance by local filmmaker Dawn Mikkelson. Green Green Water explores the environmental and cultural impact of hydroelectric power in Manitoba. For further information check here.
12/01/2006 12-1 PM
Room 120
Elmer L. Andersen Library
Animals are the focus of this installment of First Fridays, the University Libraries' monthly series of discussions featuring items from the Libraries' special collections and archives. For further information, check here.
2006–07 IT Public Lecture
Lanny Schmidt
Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, November 28, 7:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
Professor Schmidt will discuss how Minnesota has the resources and the science and engineering base to make it the nation’s leader in discovering and developing new energy sources.
November 28, 2006, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
Where: McNamara Alumni Center, Minneapolis - East Bank Campus, University of Minnesota.
When: 8:30AM to 2:30PM
The Annual IREE Research Symposium is an opportunity for University of Minnesota faculty and researchers to showcase groundbreaking new work in the areas of renewable energy and the environment. For further information and to register visit their webpage.
Monday, November 20, 2006, 11:15 - 12:15, EE/CS 3-180
Presenter: Holly Rushmeier, Yale University
Ms. Rushmeier will present a brief survey of how modeling material appearance has evolved from modeling reflectance functions, to capturing spatially varying reflectance, and finally to current work in volumetric and temporal effects.
She will also present her recent work on modeling the internal structure of materials with three dimensional structure such as stone aggregates. For further information go to this site.
Tuesday, November 21, 6:30 p.m. (Doors at 5:30 p.m.)
Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis
$5 suggested donation
The Bell Museum’s Café Scientifique makes its Bryant-Lake Bowl debut with a physics 'seminar' unlike anything you’ll find in college. Find out how science might improve your bowling game, learn some physics basics, get the inside scoop on cutting-edge research, and witness a bowling tournament that pits science against the skills of the Bryant Lake Bowl’s top bowling team.
Lunch Series on the Societal Implications of the Life Sciences
Date: November 14, 2006
Time: 12:15pm-1:30pm
Location: Theater, Coffman Memorial Union
Prof. Holly Doremus, JD, PhD (University of California, Davis)
For further information check this website.
Tuesday, November 14, 6 p.m., Varsity Theater, Dinkytown, $5 suggested donation
This month Cafe Scientifique explores the science and politics of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Guest Speakers:
Professor Anne R. Kapuscinski, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries and Conservation Biology
Jennifer Kuzma, Ph.D., Interim Director and Assistant Professor at the Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
William Hoffman
University of Minnesota
Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 11:00 a.m.
402 Walter Library
Communications technologies are enabling another revolution — in the biosciences. Global bioscience maps help to illustrate the new scientific, competitive, and ethical frontiers taking shape on the horizon as well as the opportunities for collaboration over great distances.
RefWorks allows you to import references from most databases, keep track of your references in a searchable database and then add those references to your papers with RefWorks doing the work of formatting your references in the appropriate style. Learn how to do it at the RefWorks workshop on 11/8 from 10-11 am in room 310 Walter Library.
Sign up here.
Friday, November 10, 2006
8:30am - 5pm
University Ballroom, Radisson
615 Washington Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN
The University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester will co-host this workshop to continue to make connections between those physical and life scientists in academia and industry that are developing nanotechnology for the betterment of health in Minnesota. For further information check this website.
