2005-06 Season Speakers

September 9, 2005: Dr. Cliff Mass, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington - Topic: The Future of Weather Prediction

October 14, 2005: Dr. Tad McGeer, Founder, Chairman and CTO, The Insitu Group - Topic: Insitu--Miniature Robotic Aircraft

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November 10, 2005: Dr. Anne Steinemann, Director, The Water Center, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington - Topic: Health hazards of everyday exposures to environmental pollutants

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December 9, 2005: Dr. Bob Moore, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research - Topic: The statistical revolution in natural language processing

January 13, 2006: Dr. Toby Bradshaw, Washington Research Foundation Professor of Basic Biological Science, Department of Biology, University of Washington - Topic: The Biology Behind the Controversy Over Genetically Engineered Food

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February 10, 2006: Dr. Patrick Duffy, Director, Malaria Antigen Discovery Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute - Topic: Malaria vaccine development

March 10, 2006: Dr. Andrew Meltzoff, Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS), and Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington - Topic: Infant brain development

April 7, 2006: Dr. Todd Werpy, Program Manager for Bioproducts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Topic: Domestic Solutions to Energy Independence

May 12, 2006: Dr. Deborah Kelley, Associate Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington - Topic: Lost City Hydrothermal Field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

June 9, 2006: Dr. Kim Kidwell, Associate Professor of Crop & Soil Sciences, Washington State University - Topic: Breeding, genetics, and cultivar development of spring wheats