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 Pathways to Knowledge: A Lecture Series for Undergraduates
Fall 2002
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
7:30-8:30PM, Grant Auditorium
How to Control Your Fate:
What We Can Learn from the Wings of a Fly
Daniel Marenda
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biology
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Do you believe in fate? Cells do. Cellular fate determines which kind of specific cell develops from a less specific cell. Different genes are turned on and off in different cells, and so a way to control cell fate is to control how to turn genes on and off. The cells in a fly wing serve as an excellent model to study cell fates.
This talk will focus on how fly wing cells determine their specific fates, what this can potentially tell us about how human cells control their fates, and what can happen when human cells do not control their fates.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
7:30-8:30PM, Grant Auditorium
Effects of Exercise and/or
Diet on the Glycemic and Lipidemic Control of
Type 2 Diabetic Women
Ifigenia Giannopoulou
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Exercise Science
and
Department of Science Teaching
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Exercise and diet are the two major cornerstones in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, no ideal treatment has yet been identified. Recently,
a diet high in monounsaturated fats (HMF) has been reported to have a beneficial effect on the glycemic and lipidemic control of this population. No research has been reported looking at the long-term effects of the HMF diet in combination with aerobic exercise on type 2 diabetic, postmenopausal women.
The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of an HMF diet regimen versus an HMF diet and exercise regimen on the body composition, blood glucose and lipid levels of type 2 diabetic postmenopausal women.
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Thursday, November 14, 2002
7:30-8:30PM, Maxwell Auditorium
'Shut It Down!':
The May 1970 Student Strike and Antiwar Protests at Syracuse
University, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and the
University of California at Berkeley
James Eichstead
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History
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After President Richard Nixon announced the Cambodian Incursion in the spring of 1970, the largest protests in American history -- focused in large part on university and college campuses -- broke out across the nation. The Kent State killings dramatically increased the number of protests and protesters. In contrast to other large scale Vietnam antiwar protests, these demonstrations were, for the most part, spontaneous, localized displays of rage that lacked extensive planning and coordination. These eruptions at universities across the nation provided one of the last dramatic outpourings of dissent during the Vietnam era.
My dissertation is an attempt to better understand the student and antiwar movements by looking closely at three universities during that tumultuous time in American history.
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