The College of Science and Engineering presents Green Honors Chair lecturers

Fort Worth, TX

1/21/2009

Geology
Dr. Ian Dalziel, research professor at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, will be on campus as a Green Honors Chair for the TCU Geology Department. His free publics lecture are scheduled for Feb. 9 and 10.

On Monday, Feb. 9, Dr. Dalziel will give an informal presentation at 12:00 p.m., titled, A Geologist in Antarctica, in Sid Richardson 217.  That evening at 7:00, he will present his lecture, Is There a Supercontinent Cycle in Earth History: Paleontology over the Last Billion Years, in Sid Richardson lecture hall 3.

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, Dr. Dalziel will present Geological Controls on the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Its Future at 2:00 p.m. in Sid Richardson lecture hall 1.

Dr. Dalziel is internationally recognized for his pioneering work on the evolution of the Andes mountain belt and the Antarctic tectonic plate, and on global patterns of supercontinent evolution through time. As part of this work, he has become involved in investigations of geological controls on the stability and evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet, a subject of considerable importance with regard to global warming. Dr. Dalziel has forty years of field experience around the world and has led 30 field expeditions in Antarctica and southern South America. He has also participated in over 20 scientific cruises in the Antarctic region.

For more information, call 817-257-7270 or visit www.geo.tcu.edu.


Physics
Dr. Bogdan Palosz, director of the Institute of High Pressure Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, will be on campus as a Green Honors Chair for the TCU Physics Department. His free public lecture, Structure of Nano-crystals as the Key to Understanding the Unique Properties of Nanomatierals, is scheduled for Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Sid Richardson lecture hall 1.

Dr. Palosz serves as an advisor to the Minister of Higher Education and is a member of the team supervising the planning and construction of a new synchrotron facility in Poland. Dr. Palosz, who has been nominated to be a member of the European Research Council, has recently researched the structure, properties and fabrication of nanomaterials.

For more information, call 817-257-7375.

Engineering
Dr. Mauro Ferrari, professor and director of the Research Center for NanoMedicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, will be on campus as a Green Honors Chair for the TCU Engineering Department. His lecture, Nanotechnologies for Medicine, is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26 from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center Cox rooms. RSVPs are required for the dinner and presentation.

Dr. Ferrari is internationally recognized as an expert in the development, refinement and application of biomedical nanotechnology. He has more than 20 awarded U.S. and international patents and was co-founder of several Biotech start-up companies. Dr. Ferrari has served as editor-in-chief for Biomedical Microdevices: BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology since 1997.

For more information or to RSVP, call 817-257-7126 or visit www.engr.tcu.edu.

Biology
Dr. Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin, will be on campus as a Green Honors Chair for the TCU Biology Department. His free public lectures are scheduled for Tuesday, March 3.

At 12:30 p.m. Dr. Carroll will give his technical presentation, “"Endless Flies Most Beautiful: Cis-regulatory Sequences and the Evolution of Animal Form,” in Sid Richardson lecture hall 4.

Dr. Carroll’s general presentation, “"Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species," will be delivered at 7 p.m. in Moudy North 141.

Dr. Carroll, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin, has centered his research on the gene that control animal body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

For more information, call 817-257-7165 or visit www.bio.tcu.edu.