|
|
"My
generation spent a generation cloning genes and developing technology
... Those are all there for you students. Now you need to figure
out how they all work, how they all interact in very complex systems.
I can't imagine anything more exciting or more challenging."
James Wilson, '77, John Herr Musser Professor of Research Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania, giving the luncheon address
"Bats, with their ability to live in extremely toxic
environments, and their well-developed altruistic behaviors,
have tremendous scientific interest." Theodore Fleming,
'64, professor of biology at the University of Miami
"In more
classes, we're having students work on projects where they
collect data. It's really important to have students feel
that they own their data and have understanding of an entire
process." E. Dale Kennedy, professor and chair of
the biology department, on the science faculty's development
and usage of problem-based learning.
Summary of MIT bioengineer
Harvey Lodiish's keynote address to the Symposium, Sept. 29,
2005
|
Science Symposium Summed Up
September 30, 2005
Story by Jake Weber;
photos by Dave Trumpie
Provocative ideas, exciting news, thoughtful analyses and a few strong opinions were all included in the proceedings of Albion's Science Symposium panel discussions held Sept. 30, 2005. A
small buffet of "food
for thought" is included here.
|
"The science majors helped the non-science majors learn how to
interpret data. On the other side, the non-science majors
were able to analyze the impact on business of the research
results."
Lisa Lewis, Honors Institute director and associate professor of
chemistry, discussing one of the positive outcomes of a science
class specifically designed to combine science majors and
non-majors in interdisciplinary study
"The climate changes we will undergo will occur over decades. And
other aspects of global change [warming, deforestation,
population density] are also readily visible, on a similar time
scale." Lyn Loveless, '71, associate professor of
biology, College of Wooster
"In confronting our ever-expanding ability to prolong life, to
delay death, our ability to deal with those things ethically and
morally can never catch up to our ability to do those
things. Our challenge is not to overcome that lag, but
learn how best to deal with it." Gregory Eastman
(second from right), president, SUNY Upstate Medical
University
"[Medicine] comes down to one doctor using that
drug, that device, that technology on one patient ... the
ethics, practicality, economics of that one interaction are all
controlled by the integrity of physicians." Robert
Bartlett (left), professor, University of Michigan
Medical School Department of Surgery .
|
\\
|
