Loyola College of Arts and Sciences
Natural and Applied Sciences
Grand Seminar
Past Grand Seminars
(Microbial) Networking Going Viral
Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D.
Professor of epidemiology and global public health, director of the Center for Genomics and Systems Biuology at New York University, and 2011 MacArthur Fellow
Modern Math in Medieval Islamic Architecture
Peter Lu, Ph.D.
Physics Research Fellow in the Department of Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University
Green Chemistry: The Missing Elements
John Warner, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, LLC
Founder of Beyond Benign, a non-profit dedicated to sustainability and green chemistry education and winner of the 2014 Perkin Medal
The History of the Universe from Beginning to the End: "Where Did We Come From, Where Can We Go?"
Dr. John Mather
Senior Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to Cell Communication in Bacteria
Dr. Bonnie Bassler
Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the department of molecular biology at Princeton University
2015 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine
The Accelerating Universe
Dr. Adam Riess
Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the Johns Hopkins University
Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute
Jobs and Security, Pikas and Penguins: The Big Surprisingly Optimistic Story on Energy
and the Environment
Dr. Richard Alley
Earth Scientist, Professor, and Contributor to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007 Nobel Prize
The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Mario Livio
The Art of Mental Calculation
Arthur Benjamin, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics and Mathemagician
From Loyola to Outer Space
Colonel Timothy "T.J." Creamer, '82
Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer on International Space Station Expedition 22/23
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