Wabash College’s annual Ides of August program will be presented in Hays Science Hall, Room 104, Friday, August 17. The Ides of August is the College’s traditional forum for faculty and staff members to discuss their recent projects. Featured on Friday’s program are:
9:00 First session: Hays Hall 104 (J. Beck, moderator)
9:00 Wally Novak: Designing Protein Conformational Switches
9:20 Reed Spencer: Mind, Heart, and Body: Conductors use the Enneagram to Reflect on Rehearsals
9:40 Michele Pittard: Charlie "Mad Dog" Madison
10:00 Brad Carlson: Classroom Research on the Ecological Effects of Pesticides and Fish: a CURE for the Challenge of Studying Environmental Change
10:40 Session Two: Hays Hall 104 (W. Novak, moderator)
10:40 Neil Schmitzer-Torbert: How Should I Study? Helping Students Adopt Effective Study Strategies for Exams
11:00 Erika Sorensen-Kamakian: MicroRNAs mir-61 and mir-250 are required to Maintain Stem Cell Identity
11:20 Joyce Burnette: Explaining the Gender Gap among Swedish Compositors in 1903
11:40 James K. Makubuya: Musical Bows and their Contextual Significance
1:20 Session Three: Hays Hall 104 (E. Sorensen-Kamakian, moderator)
1:20 Mollie Ables & Chris Renk: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Approaches to Teaching Classical Music
1:40 Matt Carlson: Freedom of Speech and the Pursuit of Truth
2:00 Cara Healey: Gender and Genre in Chinese Science Fiction
2:20 Paul D. Schmitt: Construction of a Laser Scanning Nonlinear Optical Microscope and Application for Agrochemical Development and Testing
3:00 Session Four: Hays Hall 104 (J. Beck, moderator)
3:00 Sara A. Mehltretter Drury: Deliberation and Democratic Innovation in Scotland
3:20 Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury: Hamilton: An American Musicalon Argumentation
3:40 Colin McKinney: The Sea Island Mathematical Manual