Activities and Events

Learning Experiment and Lab Trip Guidelines, Spring 2007:Students enrolled in SSO 102 need to attend one (1) Learning Experiment and one (1) Lab Trip from the list of approved events below as part of their class.


LEARNING EXPERIMENTS - While you only need to attend one (1) Learning Experiment for your SSO 102 class, you may find more interesting and helpful to you, and we encourage that you go to as many as you find are helpful to you.

For Learning Experiment credit for all events, at the event's start, you must check-in with the Science and Society Events Coordinator who will be attending the event. You must bring Stony Brook ID to the event.

The Human Race Machine
Monday-Wednesday, 2/5-2/7 - 11am - 4pm
SAC "Y" Lobby
Visit the innovative work of art and prepare a 1-page essay on what this experiment meant with regards to the issue of race. Send the essay to: jlevinton@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

 "New Perspective"
Tuesday, 2/13 - 8-10 pm
Student Union Auditorium
Three speakers: Kamazima Lwiza on global warming; Heidi Hutner on Eco-feminism; Carl Safina on Fisheries and Sea Turtles. We will have the pep band playing funk, jazz, blues, and ska. FSA is providing food. There will be t-shirt give-aways.

"The Making of the Fittest"
Thursday, 2/15 - 7:30-9 pm
Student Activity Center Auditorium
Darwin Day Part I: Dr. Sean Carroll will give a keynote address entitled "The Making of the Fittest". Dr. Carroll is a very famous Evolutionary Biologist and a terrific public speaker and will describe how evolutionary thinking permeates your everyday life.

"Faith and Science: What is the Interface?"
Friday, 2/16 - 7:30-9 pm
Earth and Space Science 001
Darwin Day Part II: A panel of scientists and clergypersons will grapple with the questions of how faith and science intersect. Special guest Dr. Katy Hinman of Georgia Light and Power will describe her bridging of the gap between faith and the protection of the environment. For more visit here.

Internships
Tuesday, 2/20 - 8pm
Gershwin Lounge
Research Opportunities for the Science/ Math/Engineering majors. Sponsored by RA Weihao Xu & Ms. James from the Career Center.

Research Opportunity
Wednesday, 2/21 - 9pm
Cardozo College Lounge
Roth Quad
The Osteoporosis Prevention Program (TOPP).

Respiratory Care
Tuesday, 2/27 - 8pm
Gershwin College Lounge
Roth Quad

Vagina Monologues - Play
Thursday/Friday, 3/1-3/2 - 8pm
SAC Auditorium
Ticket sales begin Feb 14th $8 ahead of time, $12 at the door We suggest you purchase tickets ahead of time as they sell out fast.

Open House at Stony Brook's School of Medicine
Friday, 3/2 - 2-4pm
Lecture Hall 1 on Level 2 at Health Sciences Center
Hear Admissions and Student Services Deans talk about the ins and outs of medical school. Pose your questions to a panel of current Stony Brook medical students. Take a tour of the medical school and medical center. Check here for more details.

Stony Brook at Albany Day
Tuesday, 3/6 - All Day
All day field day with hundreds of SBU faculty, staff an students. In the past students that have gone on this have satisfied both of their learning experiment at lab trip requirements (because of the length of the trip).
To sign up, students need to register with the SBU Albany website.

Resume Writing Workshop
Sunday, 3/11 - 7:00pm
Hendrix College, Main Lounge
Prepare yourself for an internship for summer or next year, by learning how to create a strong resume.

HOW THE BRAIN DECIDES: Uncovering the Secrets of Cognition
Monday, 3/12 - 4:30pm
Staller Center for the Arts, Main Stage
Stony Brook University and The Swartz Foundation are proud to present
an exploration into the far reaches of the human mind with Michael N. Shadlen, M.D., (Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington). Free presentation, intended for a general audience.

Do It! Get Involved with Research
Monday, 3/12 - 7:00pm
Hendrix College, Main Lounge
Do you want hands on experience, to gain skills and assist you in getting a full time job one day? If yes, the learn how to get involved in research.

Spirit Night Skit
Practices 3/12 - 9:30pm & 3/14 - 8:30pm
Mount College, Main Lounge
Spirit Night Skit 3/20 - 7:00pm
If you like to act, dance, meet great people or just have fun, come two the practices and then perform in the skit and show your pride for Science and Society and Roth Quad.

"An Inconvenient Truth" RESCHEDULED!
Thursday, 4/12 - 7:30pm
Endeavor Hall (Marine Sciences - South Campus) Room 120
Following the movie there will be a required panel discussion on science and communication implications of the film. For more visit here.

"Myths and Facts About Med. School Applications"
Thursday, 4/12 - 8:00pm
Mount College Lounge
Roth Quad
Presented by Assosiate Professor Harvard Lyman of the Biochemistry Dept.

EarthStock - Living World Lecture
Friday, 4/20 - 7:30pm
SAC Auditorium
EarthStock distinguished speaker Claudine Schneider will give an outstanding lecture.

"Mixing Science With Fiction: Splicing Politics with
Poetics, and Crossbreeding Points of View"
Thursday, 4/26, 4:00pm
Student Union Auditorium
Author Ruth Ozeki, author of two important novels that combine science, environmentalism and humanism. She will speak on "Mixing Science With Fiction: Splicing Politics with Poetics, and Crossbreeding Points of View". Originally a film maker of low-budget horror movies, Ozeki turned her attention to novels and wrote "My Year of Meats", a wonderfully humerous but strong attack on the mass meat trade and the publicity organizations that translate horror into commercials; then wrote "All Over Creation", a loving description of farmers, environmentalist-wanderers, and a clash over genetically-engineered foods. She has been translated into 11 languages and won several awards for her works.

Reception at the Wang Center to follow with book signing.

Volunteer 1.5 Hours to EarthStock Events
Contact Jeffrey Barnett, Assistant Dean of Students at jeffrey.barnett@stonybrook.edu to make arrangements.

LAB TRIPS -Remember that all SSO 102 students are required to make one lab tour during the spring semester. In many cases, your SSO 102 instructor will give a tour of a lab and that will satisfy your requirement. If you cannot make this tour or your instructor does not give a tour, here are some other options:

Tour of Life Sciences Greenhouse
Thursday, 3/22 - 11:00am-12:00pm
Life Sciences Building
Led by Greenhouse Director, Mike Axelrod. Meet at Greenhouse door in basement of Life Sciences Building.

Tour of High Pressure Mineral Physics Laboratory
Thursday 4/12, 3:00-4:00pm
Earth and Space Sciences Building
Led by Glenn Richard. Meet in Lobby of Earth and Space Sciences Building.

Boat trip on the Stony Brook University research vessel SeaWolf
Thursday 4/19, 12:30-3:30pm
SAC Bus Circle
led by Captain Steve Cluett and Prof. Jeffrey Levinton, 1-3:30 P.M. Meet 12:30 P.M. at SAC Bus Circle. You must contact Jeffrey Levinton. Limit of 20 students. Contact jlevinton@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Tour of Dinosaur Fossil Preparation Laboratory
Wednesday, 4/25, 2:00pm
8th floor in room HSC T8 031 (academic tower)
Anatomical Sciences
Led by Andrew Farke.

Tour of Synchrotron Laboratory
Time TBA
Brookhaven Laboratory
Time to be announced.

Bodies, the Exhibition
Sunday, 4/29, 7:45am sharp
Leave from Hendrix College
SSO and Hendrix College will sponsor a trip to "Bodies the Exhibition". The trip will cost students $4 for a metro card. For more information or to reserve a space on the trip, contact Melissa Scuccimarri, Hendrix RHD at 632-6789.