First Fridays are "a casual but totally nerdy conversation" with several STEM faculty in a semi-public forum with students and anyone else who wants to join in. Themes include current and science related topics that are relevant to what's happening in the world now!
Information and recordings from past sessions:
2022-2023
- October 7 - Whaaat?! (Exclamation made by astronomers all summer long) with Jeff Ihara and Rica French: and
- Coming soon
2021-2022
- 5/6/2022: "Bolides and Isotopes and Superplumes (oh my?)" and
- 4/1/2022: "Lubb, Dubb, Oink?" and
- 2/4/2022: "Tachyons & Wormholes are Real?!" and
- 12/3/2021: "Extinction and milder catastrophes" and
- 11/5/2021: "Language runs hot and cold, up, down, and sideways." and
- 10/20/2021 - ACP Vaccination Panel - and
- 10/1/2021 - "Darwin vs. Turing - Natural Selection meets Machine Learning" and
- 9/3/2021 - "What do the Mars Perseverance Rover and the Coronavirus Delta variant have in common" and
2020-2021
- 5/7/2021 - "What's up with (mu)on?" and
- 4/2/2021 - "Beautiful Theories, Ugly Facts - When science gets it wrong" and
- 3/5/2021 - "Red, Green, Blue Mars: What Life on our Neighbor Might Look Like"
- 2/5/2021 - "Life out there" Informational .
- 10/2/2020 - "We all live in a metastable vacuum universe"
2018-2019
- 5/3/2019 - "Navigating the Maize of Quantum Computing"
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 4/5/2019 - "Sci-Fi or Sci-Lie?" Evaluating the Science in Popular Movies
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon, Kaitlin Fisher, and Tina Johnson
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 2/1/2019 - "What's New in Science Update"
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Rica French
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 12/7/2018 - "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"
- Faculty: Professor Rachid Atmai, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Jonathan Cole
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 11/2/2018 - "Four Scientists Walk into a Bar" - Questions from the Audience
- Faculty: Professor Ihara (Biology), Professor Salamon (Physics), Professor Cole (Physics) and Professor French (Astronomy).
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 10/5/2018 - "Not Just a Bleeping Message: Why RNA is H.O.T."
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Pedro Morgado, Professor Barbara Juncosa
- 9/7/2018 - "The Mysteries and Wonder of the Electron: a Physicist, a Chemist, a Biologist,
and a Poet Take On Everybody's Favorite Lepton."
- Faculty: Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Kaitlin Fisher and Professor Pedro Morgado
2017-2018
- 5/4/2018 - 鈥淏lack Holes & Spaghettification: A Noodle-y Tour of Spacetime鈥�
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 4/6/2018 - "Have You Considered a Trans-poo-sion and Other Microbiome-related Questions?"
- Faculty: Professor Himgauri Kulkarni and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link:
- 3/2/2018 - "HACKING THE PLANETS"
- Faculty: Professor Jonathan Cole, Professor Jeff Ihara, and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link:
