Lectures and Performances

Part of the Series, "Great Lakes, Great Issues: Toxic Puzzle: Our Health and the Health of the Great Lakes" presented by Lake Forest Open Lands.

Recorded Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at Gorton Center, Lake Forest.

Please join Dr. Sherri (Sam) Mason for a broad-ranging conversation about plastic pollution in the Great Lakes and other freshwater systems.

Given the abundance of plastic within the world's oceans, it is not surprising that plastic particles have been found in all of the Great Lakes. The counts obtained rival those within the world's ocean. We hope to build an understanding of the types and abundance of plastics within the Great Lakes and other freshwater systems, laying the groundwork for important additional investigations into their ecosystem impacts. Dr. Mason’s work is at the forefront of research on plastic pollution within freshwater ecosystems.

Dr. Sherri (Sam) Mason, Professor of Chemistry, Chair, Department of Geology & Environmental Sciences, State University of New York, Fredonia

Recorded September 12, 2018, Lake Forest College, Lillard 044

Option II Richter scholars will present the results of their ten weeks of research.

The Richter Scholar Symposium is the culmination of faculty and student collaborative research projects across academic disciplines and features original research conducted by First-Year Richter Scholars at Lake Forest College.

Option II Richter scholars will present the results of their ten weeks of research.

The Richter Scholar Symposium is the culmination of faculty and student collaborative research projects across academic disciplines and features original research conducted by First-Year Richter Scholars at Lake Forest College.

Richter Scholar Option 1 Symposium: June 8, 2018

Mentor: Professors Paul Gladen & Dawn Wiser, Chemistry

Richter Scholar Option 1 Symposium: June 8, 2018

Mentor: Professor Shubhik DebBurman, Biology

2:00-3:15 PM TALKS II

2:00 Rahul Tamta, Minsky’s Theory of Financial Crises: The Case of the Dot Com Bubble

Mentor: Professor Dmitra Papadovasilaki, Finance

2:15 Paula Pelletier, Racial & Ethnic Identity formation of Haitian Americans in Chicago

Mentor: Professor Courtney Cain, History

2:30 Said Omer Sadat, Have We Gone Too Far? Monoiodination vs Bisiodination

Mentor: Professor Paul Gladen, Chemistry

2:45 Sadaf Naushad, Fact or Fabrication: The Truth on Latin American Crime Fiction

Mentor: Professor Gizella Meneses, Spanish

3:00 Olivia Grimmer, The Evolution of Commercial Education in the Chicago Public School System

Mentor: Professor Cristina Groeger, History

3:15-3:30 PM BREAK

3:30-4:30 PM TALKS III

3:30 Molly Gniady, Amanda Lee, & Jan Roessler, Using the Surveys of Consumer Finances to Understand Financial Decisions: Policy Applications for Life Insurance, Student Debt, and Market Diversification

Mentor: Professor Robert Lemke, Economics

3:50 Maxwell Rowland & Sarah Stauber, Chicago Elites: Social Networks & Inequality in the 19th and 20th Centuries,

Mentor: Professor Rudi Batzell, History

4:10 Madison Strejc & Zoe Walts, Walk Down Memory Lane: Part-Set Cueing & Semantic Memory,

Mentor: Professor Matthew Kelley, Psychology

4:30 PM CONCLUDING REMARKS

Richter Scholar Option 1 Symposium: June 8, 2018

Mentor: Professor Enrique Treviño, Mathematics