ENVIRONMENTAL SEMINAR SERIES
FALL SEMESTER, 2003
Fridays, 11 am, Room 101, Lopata Hall
(unless otherwise stated)

2003-04 is a special year, the Sesquicentennial Year for Washington University in St. Louis. Several University wide Seminars related to the "Environment" will be organized

September 5 NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION
- meet the Faculty, Academic Procedures
- EnVESA Picture Shoot and Lab Tours
 

September 12

 

Dr. Cecil Lue Hing, Member, National Academy of Engineering
KAPPE LECTURE
"Challenging Environmental Regulations: Some DOs & DON’Ts: A Summary of Case Studies
 
September 19
 
Weiling Li, Doctoral Student
"Improvement and application of Nano-Differential Mobility Analyzer"
 
September 26
 
Dr. Kenneth Lee, Director, Center for Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Research (COOGER), Canada
&
Dr. Albert D. Venosa, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, USEPA, Cincinnati
"Bioremediation of Crude Oil in Wetlands"

 

October 3, 3 pm
Graham Chapel

Carol Browner, Principal of the Albright Group, and William Reilly, CEO of Aqua International Partners
(Former USEPA Administrators in the Clinton and Bush Sr. Administration)
Government, Politics and the Environment

 

Thursday, Oct. 9
3 pm
Graham Chapel

Dr. Mario Molina, Professor of Chemistry and of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate
&
Jane Lubchenco, Professor of Marine Biology, Oregon State University

Science and The Environment
 

October 17 Nic Neumann, NPN Environmental Engineering
"Air Pollutant Control Technologies for Smelters"
 
October 24 (Fall Break)
 
October 31
10 am, Knight Center
Dr. S.P. Sukhatme, Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, India (Professor Emeritus and former Director, IIT Bombay)
"Alternate Energy Sources: The Indian Context"
Panel Discussion: D. Chollet,M.Bot Gardens, M. Lyons, Ameren UE, P. Biswas and J. Swinkels, WUStL. J. Makansi, Pearl Street Inc.,
D. Houston, ExxonMobil

(Jointly sponsored with Olin School of Business)
 
November 7 Dr. Brian Wrenn, Env Engr. Sci., WUStL
"Laboratory Safety Procedures"
 
November 14 Dr. Baolin Deng, University of Missouri Columbia
"Ch
romium (VI) Reduction by Hydrogen Sulfide: Kinetics, Mechanism, and Application to Site Remediation."
 
November 21
3 pm
Dr. Perry McCarty, Stanford University, Member, National Academy of Engineering
INAUGURAL RYCKMAN LECTURE
"
Precautionary Approach for Toxic Chemicals in the Environment  - Experiences and Concepts in the Making"

 

November 28 Thanksgiving Holiday
 
Monday,
December 1
12:30 pm, Cupples II, 212
 
Pramod Kulkarni, DSc Doctoral Defense
"Transport and Deposition of Particles in Electrical Fields: Role of Morphology on Deposition Kinetics"
December 12 Dr. K.S. Kim, Visiting Scientist, DuPont
"Plasma reactors to produce monodisperse nanoparticles and prepare uniform thin film coatings"

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