First Fridays are "a casual but totally nerdy conversation" with several STEM faculty in a semi-public forum with students and anyone else who wants to join in. Themes include current and science related topics that are relevant to what's happening in the world now!
Information and recordings from past sessions:
2022-2023
- October 7 - Whaaat?! (Exclamation made by astronomers all summer long) with Jeff Ihara and Rica French: Flyer and Recording Link
- Coming soon
2021-2022
- 5/6/2022: "Bolides and Isotopes and Superplumes (oh my?)"Full recording and Information
- 4/1/2022: "Lubb, Dubb, Oink?"Full recording and Information
- 2/4/2022: "Tachyons & Wormholes are Real?!"Full recording and Information
- 12/3/2021: "Extinction and milder catastrophes" Full Recording and Information
- 11/5/2021: "Language runs hot and cold, up, down, and sideways."Full Recording and Information
- 10/20/2021 - ACP Vaccination Panel - Full Recording and Information
- 10/1/2021 - "Darwin vs. Turing - Natural Selection meets Machine Learning" Full recording and Information
- 9/3/2021 - "What do the Mars Perseverance Rover and the Coronavirus Delta variant have in common" Full recording and Information
2020-2021
- 5/7/2021 - "What's up with (mu)on?" Full recording and Information
- 4/2/2021 - "Beautiful Theories, Ugly Facts - When science gets it wrong"Full recording and Information
- 3/5/2021 - "Red, Green, Blue Mars: What Life on our Neighbor Might Look Like" Information Recording
- 2/5/2021 - "Life out there" Informational flyer.
- 10/2/2020 - "We all live in a metastable vacuum universe" flyer recording link
2018-2019
- 5/3/2019 - "Navigating the Maize of Quantum Computing"
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link: https://youtu.be/OqJg_VfgrGY
- 4/5/2019 - "Sci-Fi or Sci-Lie?" Evaluating the Science in Popular Movies
- Faculty: Professors: Jeff Ihara, Joe Salamon, Kaitlin Fisher, and Tina Johnson
- Full Video Recording Link: https://youtu.be/71eKbld-BzA
- 2/1/2019 - "What's New in Science Update"
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Rica French
- Full Video Recording Link: https://youtu.be/BCGjXLm8DtQ
- 12/7/2018 - "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"
- Faculty: Professor Rachid Atmai, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon and Professor Jonathan Cole
- Full Video Recording Link: https://youtu.be/6SY4qTn9yMU
- 11/2/2018 - "Four Scientists Walk into a Bar" - Questions from the Audience
- Faculty: Professor Ihara (Biology), Professor Salamon (Physics), Professor Cole (Physics) and Professor French (Astronomy).
- Full Video Recording Link: https://youtu.be/dxuGyUWrWHE
- 10/5/2018 - "Not Just a Bleeping Message: Why RNA is H.O.T."
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Pedro Morgado, Professor Barbara Juncosa
- 9/7/2018 - "The Mysteries and Wonder of the Electron: a Physicist, a Chemist, a Biologist,
and a Poet Take On Everybody's Favorite Lepton."
- Faculty: Professor Joe Salamon, Professor Jeff Ihara, Professor Kaitlin Fisher and Professor Pedro Morgado
2017-2018
- 5/4/2018 - “Black Holes & Spaghettification: A Noodle-y Tour of Spacetime”
- Faculty: Professor Jeff Ihara and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMnhiDGHHs
- 4/6/2018 - "Have You Considered a Trans-poo-sion and Other Microbiome-related Questions?"
- Faculty: Professor Himgauri Kulkarni and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZeGLhA1Yo
- 3/2/2018 - "HACKING THE PLANETS"
- Faculty: Professor Jonathan Cole, Professor Jeff Ihara, and Professor Joe Salamon
- Full Video Recording Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCQp8SYFVdg
