All Sigma Xi lectures are open to the public and are free.
Upcoming lectures and events:
Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: a guided tour, 8 October 2009
Scott Burns, Cataclysms on the Columbia: the great Missoula floods, 19 November 2009
Scott Burns, Oregon wines: a study of terroir, 4 December 2009
Past lectures:
Bill Bradbury, Climate change in Oregon: impacts and opportunities, 21 May 2009
Kimberly Gray, Sigma Xi Distinguished National Lecture, The modern American city: can we ever make it sustainable?, 21 April 2009
Amelia Ahern-Rindell, An example of how animal models inform basic and applied biological research, 24 March 2009
David B. Morton, Why does NIH fund fruit fly research?, 19 February 2009
Sue Bednarz, The Portland “Big Pipe” tunnel and pipeline projects: using geology and history to reduce construction risk, 4 December 2008.
Robert Folmer, From the ear to the brain: auditory neuroscience in clinical medicine and research, 14 October 2008.
Martin Raphael, Unraveling the mysteries of the marbled murrelet, 8 May 2008.
Bret Tobalske, The biomechanics of flight in small birds, 19 March 2008.
Michael Wolf, The mathematics of soap films: how nature chooses its shape, 13 February 2008.
Brian Atwater, The orphan tsunami of 1700, 7 November 2007.
Stanley S. Hillman, Lymph and the ecology of amphibians, 25 October 2007.
Jennifer Hooper McCarty, The forensics behind the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 11 October 2007.
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Animal desease challenges to the spread of pastoralism in Africa: archaeological and epizootiological perspectives, 23 March 2007.
Robert Buckendorf (speech-language pathologist), Autism: Definition, treatments, and current research, 28 February 2007.
Erik Sánchez (PSU Physics), Pluto, no more..., 31 January 2007.
Anna-Louise Reysenbach (PSU Biology), Discovery and microbial exploration of deep ocean hydrothermal vents in the south western pacific, 8 November 2006.
Leslie A. Muldoon (OHSU), Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, 16 May 2006.
Jim Lichatowich (author of Salmon without rivers: a history of the Pacific salmon crisis), Why does salmon recovery consume so much money for so few results? 8 March 2006.
Virginia Butler (PSU Department of Anthropology), Where have all the native fish gone? The fate of Lewis and Clark's fishes of the lower Columbia River, 22 February 2006.
Rashmi Sinha (National Cancer Institute), Meat, meat-cooking carcinogen, and cancer, 26 January 2006.
Patrick J. Bartlein (UO, Geology), Global warming: the past is key to the future, 11 Oct 2005.
Guy Consolmagno (Astronomer, Vatican Observatory), Pluto and Planets X: what's a planet? and why does it matter?, 9 Nov 2005.
George H. Taylor (OSU, State Climatologist), Oregon's Climate: Past, Present, and Future, 19 May 2005
Lisa Weasel (PSU, Dept. of Biology) DNA at the Dinnertable: Global Ethical Debates surrounding Genetically Modified Food, 12 Apr 2005
Robert Bertini (PSU, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Oxymoron or Can Technology Really Reduce Congestion?, 9 Mar 2005
Andrew Fountain (PSU, Depts. of Geology and Geography), Glaciers of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, 15 Feb 2005
Gordon Orians, Bird Brains: Decision-Making by Blackbirds, 23 Nov 2004
Ruzicka, Hutson, and Pugh, Meteors and Meteorites in the Pacific Northwest, 3 Nov 2004
Carolyn Shoemaker, Comet and Asteroid Hazards, 6 May 2004
Alison Galloway, Forensic Analysis of Skeletal Trauma, 24 Mar 2004
Durgam Chakrapani, Investigative Metallurgy: Stories of a Family Heirloom and a Collector's Indian Peace Medal, 4 Dec 2003
Peter Abrahams, Solar Telescopes from 1600 to 1900, 30 Oct 2003
William Lang, Killing the Cowlitz: How One of the Last Best Hopes for Salmon in the Columbia Failed, 14 May 2003
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