Raquell Holmes
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center

"What did the Software Engineer Say to the Biologist, Chemist and Physicist?"

Website: http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ccb

Dr. Charles Yarish, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Marine Sciences, UConn Stamford

"THE SEA OF CORTEZ AND PENINSULA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA: The Land In Between the Sea and the Ocean."

Dr. Yarish's Bio

Laurie Santos, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University

"Sex Evolution and Human Nature"

Professor Santos' research explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind by comparing the cognitive abilities of human and non-human primates. Her experiments focus on non-human primates (in captivity and in the field) incorporating methodologies from cognitive development and cognitive neuroscience.

Jeffrey Seigel,B.S., J.D., LEED AP
Adjunct Professor
Polytechnic Institute of NYU 

"Impact of Green Buildings on Global Warming"

Mr. Seigel is highly involved in Sustainability with the city of Stamford. Pavarini Construction is a member of the US Green Building Council, and has over 100 LEED accredited construction professionals on staff, and close to $1B of Green construction on-going and in the pipeline.

Dr. Michael Studinger

"An Antarctic Expedition to Explore Lost Mountains Encased in Ice"

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. M.S. (Diplom Geophysiker) in Geophysics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Geophysics, Alfred Wegener Institute and University of Bremen, Germany.

Dr. Studinger's Website

SYMPOSIUM AND BOOK SIGNING : Dr. Ron Mallett

"Science of Time Travel: Possibility and Promise"

Professor Ronald L. Mallett received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Pennsylvania State University. He worked for United Technologies from 1973-5, and in 1975 joined the physics faculty at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he has been a professor of theoretical physics ever since. Prof. Mallett has published numerous papers on black holes and cosmology in professional journals. His breakthrough research on time travel has been featured extensively in the media around the world, including print media such as New Scientist, the Village Voice, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, Rolling Stone magazine, Pravda (Moscow), The Wall Street Journal, and broadcast media such as NPR’s This American Life, the History Channel, Science Channel, Learning Channel and the National Geographic Channel. 

Professor Mallett’s recently published memoir “Time Traveler” is a compelling and human story of a man whose deep childhood trauma drove him on a quest to build a time machine.  The book has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and is to be made into a feature film by Spike Lee.

Distinguished Professor of Biology, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College (State University of New York). B.S., Queens College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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Nadine Weidman teaches history of science and technology at the Harvard University Extension School, and is the author of Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley's Mind-Brain Debates (1999), and Science, Race and Racism: Social Impact and Interaction (2004).  She is also Senior Research Associate at the Council for Responsible Genetics. Her current research focuses on the history of scientific claims for a human instinct for aggression.

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Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College (State University of New York). B.S., Florida Institute of Technology; M.S., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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