2011 Speakers

Monday, December 12, 2011

Yoüth in the Building: Shaking up the Bones at the Mütter Museum

Jacqui Bowman, PhD, Director, Education and Public Initiatives; Director, Karabots Junior Fellows Program, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Monday, November 14, 2011

Supermassive skeleton Skillfully Secured from South America

Jason C. Poole, Manager of the Fossil Prep Lab at the Academy of Natural Sciences

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Science of Demonology

Jonathan Seitz, Ph.D., Assistant Teaching Professor of History, Drexel University

Monday, September 12, 2011

Chile Peppers: Heat and History

Joseph Rucker, Ph.D., Director of Research and Development, Integral Molecular, Inc.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Underwater Communication: Fiber Optics and Whale Songs

Thaddeus Phillips, theater director, performer and set designer

Monday, June 13, 2011

Imagining the Body Abnormal: Art and Artifice in Historical Medical Photography

Evi Numen, MFA, Exhibits Manager, Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Monday, May 9, 2011

Shocking Streams and Freaky Fish

Dr. Richard Horwitz, Senior Scientist, Fisheries, Academy of Natural Sciences

Monday, April 11, 2011

Fermentation: The Amazing Mother of it all in Wine and Beer

Solomon H. Katz, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania; Director of Penn’s Krogman Center for Childhood Growth and Development; editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (2003)

Monday, March 14, 2011

Living the High Life: Insights on the Private Lives of Giraffes

Christine Bartos, Curator of Ungulates and Small Mammals, Philadelphia Zoo

Monday, February 14, 2011

The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean, science writer, correspondent for Science magazine

Monday, January 10, 2011

Benjamin Rush’s Heartbreak: The Bloody Battle Against Yellow Fever in 1793

Annie Brogan, College Librarian, Historical Medical Library, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia