Hudson Valley
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Launched 2007 |
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General Information
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Where : |
It's All Good
(Southern Food), 394 Washington Street,, Newburgh, NY (formerly the
Shamus Pub)
Food and drinks served
from 6:00-7:00 and after 7:30. |
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When : |
Fourth
Tuesday of the month, 7PM |
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| Contact:
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Toby Rossman |
Hudson Valley Science Café
Future
topics will be chosen from all of the sciences. If you have
a suggestion for a speaker, or if you have a topic to
present, please contact Dr. Toby Rossman (toby.rossman@nyumc.org).
Previous Events
Upcoming events
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Date: |
Tuesday July 29 |
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Title: |
Cancelled, due to speaker
illness. |
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Speaker: |
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Date: |
Tuesday August 26 |
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Title: |
Turning
genes off and on |
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Speaker: |
Catherine Klein,
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute of
Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Tuxedo,
NY |
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Date: |
Tuesday September 30 |
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Title: |
Why
people believe pseudoscientific and paranormal claims |
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Speaker: |
Terrance Hines, Ph.D.,
Professor of Psychology at Pace University, adjunct
Professor of Neurology at New York Medical College, and
author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. |
Previous Events
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Date: |
Tuesday September 25 |
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Title: |
How our diet prevents
mutations from environmental agents |
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Speaker: |
David DeMarini,
Ph.D., Genetic Toxicology Division, US
Environmental Protection Agency |
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Date: |
Tuesday October 23
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Title: |
Gross Science, Silly
Science, Useless Science, Useful Science: Vignettes from Scientific Research
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Speaker: |
Andi Weiss Bartczak, Ph.D.,
Science Consultant and Educator,
Gardiner, NY |
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Date: |
Tuesday November 27
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Title: |
Ecological Damage by Contaminants in the Hudson River
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Speaker: |
Ike Wirgin, Ph.D.,
Professor of Environmental Medicine, NYU School of Medicine |
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Date: |
Tuesday December 18 (NB Third Tuesday, because of Christmas)
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Title: |
The Criminalization of
Mental Illness - Coping and Reversing |
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Speaker: |
Zebulon Taintor M.D.,
Professor, NYU School of Medicine and the Nathan S. Kline Institute |
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Date: |
Tuesday January 22 |
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Title: |
Genetic
susceptibility to breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer |
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Speaker: |
Elizabeth Poynor, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Poyner was a
researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for
14 years and is now in private practice. |
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Date: |
Tuesday February 26
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Title: |
What's so special about nano? An introduction to
nanoscience
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Speaker: |
Janet
M. Petroski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Chemistry, Mount Saint Mary College , Newburgh, NY |
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Date: |
Tuesday March 25
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Title: |
Human
Evolution |
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Speaker: |
Ximena
Valderrama, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Biology,
Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ |
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Date: |
Tuesday April 22
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Title: |
A
glance at the future without anthropogenic global
warming |
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Speaker: |
Juerg
Michael Matter, Ph.D., Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Palisades, NY |
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Date: |
Tuesday May 27 |
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Title: |
Don't put
all your shrimp eggs in one basket - estuarine shrimp
and their importance in the food chain and their use as
biomonitors |
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Speaker: |
Kathleen Nolan, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Dept. of
Biology, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY |
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Date: |
Tuesday June 24 |
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Title: |
From
Sherlock Holmes to CSI: chemistry as a
forensic science.
A joint presentation of
the Hudson Valley Science Cafe and the Mid-Hudson
Chapter of the American Chemical Society |
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Speaker: |
James
T. Spencer Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Syracuse
University |
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