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Frontiers of Science Lecture Series

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Blog entry by Ambrea Kuhn, The Leonardo's Fall 2009 Intern

Each year the University of Utah brings in top scientists for their free Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, which consists of four professors from around the country who cover varying topics. Robin M. Bush, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, will give the first lecture "Influenza: Why Can't We Get Rid of It?" Oct. 21. She studies infectious diseases and how the influenza virus evolves. Influenza has one of the highest mutation rate of any virus, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Robin hopes to improve our ability to predict the evolution of the virus.

H1N1 Influenza Virus

Francis H. Brown, distinguished professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, will lecture Nov. 24 about the "Geologic Control of the Age of Early Man. Graeme W. Milton, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, will present "Cloaking: Where Science Meets Science Fiction," March 10. Ronald L. Walsworth, senior physicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, presents the final lecture "The Search for Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars," April 7.


Centers for Disease Control test kit for influenza virus

You can watch previous lectures online (we can't embed any of these but they are great!) The lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Aline Wilmot Scaggs Biology building. All lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets are required. To request tickets email your first and last name with the number of tickets requested to office@science.utah.edu.

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