Science Seminar Series

Lynn Helena Caporale ABSTRACT

Karin Kiontke ABSTRACT The timing of developmental events is critical. I am particularly interested in the events that happen at the transition from a juvenile to an adult animal, the … Continue reading Worm tails, RNAs and the timing of puberty →

Peter Jo ABSTRACT Neurological injuries such as stroke have a devastating impact on motor control. Walking is often impaired and many people have problems with mobility years after their injury. … Continue reading Motor Control and Movement Variability in Stroke Rehabilitation →

To register for Night of Science and learn more about this open-to-all celebration of science, visit the Night Of Science page.

An informal mini-symposium to celebrate life and work of the Renaissance genius by NOVA faculty and students. Come and celebrate with over talks, art, music, and food. Participants: Mihaela Chamberlin … Continue reading Da Vinci Festa ! →

Nick Gorkavyi ABSTRACT Rudolf Clausius introduced the concept of entropy in 1865 and formulated the second law of thermodynamics, which asserts the inevitability of entropy growth in closed systems. The … Continue reading Entropy: from Biology to Cosmology →

Christopher Bradburne ABSTRACT The convergence of technologies across biology, autonomous systems, and space exploration is enabling the broad new field of 'space biology'. Technological investments in biology and health are … Continue reading A Lot of Space for Biology: Astrobiology, bioastronautics, and the emergence of space biology →

Deborah Shaffer ABSTRACT The eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) is ubiquitous throughout eastern North America. Yet despite its commonness, gaps exist in our understanding of its population structure, primarily in … Continue reading The Elusive Eastern Newt: A Genetic Population Study →

Jeff Urbach ABSTRACT We usually describe the properties of materials by categorizing them as solid, liquids, or gases, but lots of stuff doesn’t fit neatly in into any one category. … Continue reading Shear thickening fluids: what’s going on in there? →

Jurij Fedynskyj ABSTRACT The ancient tradition of blind minstrels in Ukraine, called kobzari, had nearly disappeared and was carried into the twenty first century by a few survivors or Soviet … Continue reading The Kobzar’s Prayer for Ukraine →

Daniel Nicholson ABSTRACT In 1926, Haldane published an essay titled ‘On Being the Right Size’, in which he argued that the size of an organism fundamentally shapes its way of … Continue reading On Being the Right Size, Revisited →

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