1/9/2023 --- History of Gold Speaker: William H. Dick (Email: whdick42@tds.net) Sponsored By: William H. Dick (ID: 1822)All the Gold that was ever on the earth is still here, in the form of ores, jewelry, gold coins & storage and in industry. Gold coins have been used as a medium of exchange in Western Europe since the days of Charlemagne. Bill will cover the many other uses for this precious metal. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 1/16/2023 --- History, Neuroscience, and Ethics of Philanthropy Speaker: Jeff Rasley (Email: jeffrasley@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Jeff Rasley (ID: 735)This talk will be a very abridged version of the course on Philanthropy Rasley teaches in the Honors Program at Butler University, supported by Power Point. It will cover the 3 topics in the title. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 1/23/2023 --- A mathematical model of regeneration-depletion dynamics and catastrophic events Speaker: Dr. Horia Petrache (Email: hpetrach@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Joe Abell (ID: 737)Complex physical systems often reach steady, persistent states followed by catastrophic events. Examples include market crashes, environmental disasters, depletion of resources, and loss of quantum information. This behavior is often unpredictable even when relevant factors are known. I will describe a stochastic mathematical model based on group structures that captures this particular type of behavior. The model shows how relatively long periods of apparent stability emerge followed by a sudden depletion of resources. One possible application of this model is in the development of computation methods for quantum computers which are currently under various stages of development. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 1/30/2023 --- What Becomes of All Those Recyclables - Plastics Recycling, Inc. Speaker: Chad Smith and Alex Ramion (Email: Chad@plastic-recycling.net) Sponsored By: Linda Karwisch (ID: 732)Finally learn what is being done to those plastic tubs, take home containers, lids, water bottles etc. Plastic Recycling, Inc. was established in 1988 and they are one of the largest providers of recycled plastic. The company makes supplies for the building industry and also customize compound materials to fit different business needs. Polystyrene blends, colored pellets and resin are the main products made from Polystyrene, Polypropylene, Homopolymer and Polyethylene. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 2/6/2023 --- Heinrich Schliemann: archaeologist, tomb robber, and citizen of Indianapolis. Speaker: John Langdon (Email: langdon@uindy.edu) Sponsored By: John Langdon (ID: 1823)Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) is best known as the discoverer of Troy. It is much less well known that he lived for a short time in Indianapolis and loved it. This colorful character excited the world about archaeology and to accept a historical basis of the Iliad, but his science was poor and irresponsible. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 2/13/2023 --- Uncovering the Silenced Stories of Institutional Life: Suffering and Death at Indiana's Central State Hospital Speaker: Dr Jeremy Wilson (Email: wilsojer@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Sarah Halter & Karen Bumb (ID: 1821)In November of 2020, construction on the site of the IMPD Canine Unit headquarters disturbed 13 graves in the old Central State Hospital cemetery adjacent to the Indiana Medical History Museum. During this presentation Dr. Wilson will present some of his team’s findings from their analysis of human remains excavated from those graves. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 2/20/2023 --- Total Solar Eclipse 2024! Speaker: Dan McGlaun (Email: Dan@eclipse2024.org) Sponsored By: Dr. Alan D. Schmidt (ID: 1825)Dan gave a superb presentation of his simulation software for the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse that will be seen in Indiana and various other cities to the Indiana Astronomical Society at the Mooresville, IN library January 21, 2024. He is all ready to give a fine presentation to Scientech when appropriate. Www.eclipse2024.org (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 2/27/2023 --- Elwood Haynes - Charter Member Speaker: William Dick (Email: whdick42@tds.net) Sponsored By: William Dick (ID: 1820)Elwood Haynes was mainly a metallurgist. He was born in Portland, In. (October 14, 1857 – April 13, 1925) was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist. He invented the metal alloy stellite and independently co-discovered martensitic stainless steel along with Englishman Harry Brearley in 1912 and designed one of the earliest automobiles made in the United States. He is recognized for having created the earliest American design that was feasible for mass production and, with the Apperson brothers, he formed the first company in the United States to produce automobiles profitably. He made many advances in the automotive industry.
This talk will precede the tour of the Elwood Haynes museum in Kokomo scheduled for May 15. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 3/6/2023 --- Lou Gehrig and The World’s Most Feared Disease Speaker: Robert Pascuzzi, MD (Email: rpascuzz@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Karen Bumb (ID: 1818)Using Lou Gehrig’s personal story, the essential features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis will be illustrated and serve as a framework for new developments in the progress towards effective treatment. Stunning results from Lou Gehrig’s own participation in an investigational treatment for ALS will illustrate critical pearls and pitfalls in the design, implementation, and interpretation of clinical trials for ALS and other degenerative brain diseases. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 3/13/2023 --- Things you may know and not know about the moon Speaker: Kurt Williams Sponsored By: Jeff Rasley (ID: 1842)Given the solar eclipse coming next year and NASA's plans to return to the moon, Kurt will be giving a presentation on the moon. Things you may know, things you may not know and all things fun and interesting. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 3/20/2023 --- The Rise and Fall of the Monsters of the Midway, and why there was a Nuclear Reaction after the Fall Speaker: Jeff Rasley (Email: jeffrasley@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Jeff Rasley (ID: 1834)From 1892 until the 1930s the Monsters of the Midway dominated college football, but in 1939 the University of Chicago dropped varsity football. Football was resurrected in 1969, but something incredible happened under the abandoned grandstands of Stagg Field during the interregnum - the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction directed by UChicago Prof. Enrico Fermi. Jeff will describe how the history of UChicago, football, and Fermi's experiments are related, along with anecdotes about the important characters involved.
(The power point talk is based on Jeff's book, "Monsters of the Midway 1969: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, and Football.") (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 3/27/2023 --- My Holocaust Journey -
Dodging the Auschwitz gas chamber and surviving three other concentration camps
Speaker: Frank Grunwald Sponsored By: Ed Koolish (ID: 1828)Frank Grunwald was just six years old when German troops invaded his home country of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939. Three years later in the summer of 1942 he and his family were transported from their home in Prague to the ghetto of Terezin and a year and a half later to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. Here he encountered the infamous Josef Mengele.
He miraculously survived Auschwitz and after more than a year was transported to Austria where he survived three other concentration camps prior to his liberation by the American Armed Forces. His talk will cover this personal journey.
(Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 4/3/2023 --- Indianapolis Cultural Trail Speaker: Karen Haley (Email: rhillkartel@indyculturaltrail.org) Sponsored By: William H. Dick (317-753-8380) (ID: 1833)The Indy Cultural has been acclaimed worldwide. It is a walking/biking trail in downtown Indianapolis, with gardens and artworks. It was funded by Gene and Marilyn Glick. The original trail has had some additions. Indy is proud to have ths great trail in Indianapolis. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 4/10/2023 --- The Pharaoh's Treasure Speaker: William H. Dick (Email: whdick42@tds.net) Sponsored By: William H. Dick (ID: 1840)Was it Pyramids? Or Monuments? Or Gold? Or the Nile?
No, it was Papyrus, the precursor of pour modern paper.
The Pharoah and Egypt has a 4,000 year monoply on Papyrus. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 4/17/2023 --- Antarctica:Personal Encounters with the white continent Speaker: James Lowery (Email: Jlowery2@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Dr. Alan Dale Schmidt (ID: 741)A
Presentation by: James Lowery
3402 Altamont Road
Birmingham, AL 35205
Home (205) 252-5337 Cell (205) 908-0179
Jlowery2@gmail.com
Method: Video and PowerPoint presentation
Audio-visual Equipment Needed (if necessary, the presenter can bring these):
Laptop Computer
Computer Projector
Screen
Summary of Presentation:
This presentation features a drone video produced by the ship’s crew on Mr. Lowery’s sixth trip to Antarctica. He will narrate the video and will talk about first-hand experiences in Antarctica – and, yes, including penguins. The science of “dynamic soaring” as used by the seabirds of the Southern Ocean will be explained.
The presentation is from the standpoint of a “tourist traveler” or “amateur scientist” and includes science and wildlife of the region – seabirds, penguins, whales, seals – as well as views of the land, ice, icebergs, and glaciers.
(Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 4/24/2023 --- TOUR--- Tour of Plastic Recycling, Inc Speaker: Chad Smith (Email: Chad@plastic-recycling.net) Sponsored By: Linda Karwisch (ID: 1827)As a follow-up to our January 30 program, Chad Smith has invited interested club members to tour the Speedway recycling facility. It would be individual transportation to a nearby location with no cost for the tour. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 5/1/2023 --- The Indianapolis Art Center Speaker: Mark Williams (Email: mwilliams@indplsartcenter.org) Sponsored By: Jeff Rasley (ID: 1832)Mark will provide an update on the Indianapolis Art Center, including an overview of the free community exhibitions and outreach programs offered. It will include a “thank you to the Foundation for its grant in 2022”, and some show and tell photos of the use of the money. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 5/8/2023 --- Investigating human and environmental sustainability through music technology and acoustics Speaker: Dr. Tim Hsu (Email: hsut@iu.edu) Sponsored By: Joe Abella (ID: 1846)The field of acoustics is inherently interdisciplinary, impacting life sciences, arts, engineering, physics, and many other diverse fields. This talk provides a window into how human and environmental sustainability can be addressed through sound, music, and technology. We will look at how sound can affect health, where one common negative outcome to noise exposure is hearing loss and tinnitus. Other negative health effects have been observed through unnecessary noise exposure. However, sound can also potentially be used constructively as a screening tool, as we explore using machine learning methods to uncover the sonic fingerprint of vocal health concerns. Furthermore, environmental sustainability can be addressed through novel acoustic panel design. Here, sustainable materials and design examples are shown that challenge the current material standards used in acoustic products. These new acoustic diffusor designs here inherently link form and function, thereby allowing easier collaboration between architects and acousticians.
(Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 5/15/2023 --- TOUR--- Elwood Haynes Museum, Kokomo, IN Speaker: Bill Dick - 317-753-8380 (Email: whdick42@tds.net) Sponsored By: William Dick, Hank Wolfla (ID: 1830)Elwood Haynes was a charter member of Scientech Club.
He drove the first car in the U.S. in 1894. Later, he invented stainless steel and the alloy Stellite.
The museum was his home and on display are four autos that Haynes and the Appersons built, as well as additional objects relating to his historic career. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 5/22/2023 --- The Sex Lives of Insects" Speaker: Sarah Gray (Email: sarahingarden@comcast.net) Sponsored By: Linda Karwisch (ID: 1838)Sarah is from Great Britain and lived in Indiana from sometime. She will present a interesting talk on the importance of insects matting and their role in the fertilization of flowers and vegetables across our growing zones here and afar. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 6/5/2023 --- Why did our ancestors become bipedal? Speaker: John Langdon (Email: langdon@uindy.edu) Sponsored By: John Langdon (ID: 1835)This is arguably the most important question in human evolution. Although dozens of hypotheses have been advanced over the past 150 years, the discussion is frought with misconceptions about mammalian locomotion and about the process of evolution. Mostly, anthropologists were seeking a simplistic answer to a complex problem. I will present an approach that should yield a more fruitful understanding of the origins of the human lineage. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 6/12/2023 --- The GI and the General Speaker: Ray Boomhower Sponsored By: William H. Dick, 317-753-8380 (ID: 1836)In WW II, combat was gruesome - for combatants and officers. Gen. George S. Patton was involved in abusing two soldiers. One was Charles H. Kuhl of Mishawaka, IN.
The rest of the story is very interesting, as Ray Boomhower will explain. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 6/19/2023 --- Engineering a self driving vehicle for DARPA Speaker: Jesse Clark (Email: jesse95@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1831)In 2007, Jesse was a member of a team competing in the DARPA Urban Challenge. This was the first time autonomous vehicles interacted with manned and unmanned vehicles in an urban environment. Eventually 6 teams had vehicles that finished the course. His talk will cover the engineering, both mechanical and informational, involved in taking on this challenge.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been involved in a wide range of scientific and engineering efforts that have led to advancements in military and civilian life. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 6/26/2023 --- The Economic Contributions of Older Americans Speaker: Rick Whitener (Email: RWHITENER17@GMAIL.COM) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1849)The talk will cover the ways that older Americans impact the US and the global economy. These include employment, consumption, investment, charitable contributions, and bequests. It will also review how non-paid activities such as volunteer work impact the economy.
There will be a short review of the economic history of senior adult poverty and how senior activities have reduced poverty for others. Some math will be involved. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 7/10/2023 --- Tumor Genomics Testing and Targeted Cancer Therapy Speaker: Christopher Fausel Parm.D. MHA (Email: Cfausel@iuhealth.org) Sponsored By: Benny Ko (ID: 1848)Evaluating the genomic characteristics of a tumor can lead to designing individualized treatment regimens using targeted therapy with the goal of optimizing clinical activity against the tumor. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 7/17/2023 --- Senior Health Care Planning Speaker: Jay Cox (Email: jaycoxindiana@live.com) Sponsored By: Jay Cox (ID: 1859)This talk begins with an examination of the entitlement called "Social Insurance" that every retiree receives in America. Medicare has been the foundation of senior health care since it was signed into law by President Johnson in 1965. Several additions and changes have been made since. This talk will focus on ways to be a ‘proactive consumer’ of Medicare benefits and other financial services to cover services offered and not offered by Medicare.
The speaker will summarize the financial condition of Medicare as described by the Medicare trustees. Any changes to address the projected financial shortfalls will come from the political process which is beyond the scope of this talk.
(Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 7/24/2023 --- Caisson Disease -- Our Understanding Over Time Speaker: William McNiece (Email: wlmcniece@gmail.com) Sponsored By: William McNiece (ID: 1841)This is a talk I originally prepared for the Society for Industrial Archeology. It looks at the development of the use of underwater construction caissons and the related caisson disease. It is primarily a historical view. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 7/31/2023 --- Authenticating a Nazca Tunic using combined dye analysis and radiocarbon dating on a single yarn Speaker: Dr. Greg Smith (Email: Gdsmith@discovernewfields.org) Sponsored By: Helmi Banta (ID: 1847)The accessioning of ancient textiles into museum collections often requires objective information regarding the object’s appropriateness and authenticity before purchase or gift acceptance. In the case of colored fabrics, the identification of dyestuffs consistent with the attributed time period and culture builds confidence and reduces the chances of the object being a simple forgery or fake produced using modern materials. Moreover, this information adds to the technical, cultural, and conservation knowledge regarding the object. Increasingly, chronometric age estimates in the form of radiocarbon dating are also needed to establish the object’s age or to further prove the materials match the purported date range of the textile. Each of these analyses consumes a small sample of the object, and typically they are conducted separately by different laboratories on individual sample yarns. This report demonstrates for the first time the sequential, combined analysis of dyes by liquid chromatography with radiocarbon dating of the same residual dye-extracted sample. The chemicals and solvents used in various dye extraction protocols are shown not to contaminate the extracted yarns for radiocarbon dating purposes. The approach was used in the authentication study of an ancient Nazca tunic made from natural fibers (wool) and dyes (indigoids, anthraquinones, and flavonoids) shown to have most likely been produced between 595 and 665 CE. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 8/7/2023 --- Claude Bernard - Medical pioneer Speaker: Richard Gunderman (Email: rbgunder@IU.edu) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1839)Claude Bernard authored one of the most important work in the history of medical science, An Introduction to Experimental Medicine, served as a strong advocate of vivisection, and was the first French scientist to receive a state funeral. The talk will explore his legacy in light of the writings of one of his fiercest critics, Fyodor Dostoevsky, in his novel, The Brothers Karamazov. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 8/14/2023 --- How science has impacted crime scene investigations Speaker: Rick Ervin (Email: ervin_rick@hotmail.com) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1837)The speaker will describe the process that goes on when investigating a possible crime scene. He will talk about how an investigator uses scientific and technology advances such as photography, fingerprinting and DNA as part of the process. His examples will cover crime scenes from five continents, aircraft carriers and war zones.
He will be presenting remotely. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 8/21/2023 --- New Harmony, IN and Scientech Foundation Update Speaker: William H. Dick, MD and Doug Gettelfinger (Email: whdick42@tds.net, gettelfinger@gmail.com) Sponsored By: William H. Dick, MD (ID: 1862)New Harmony was founded in 1814 by George Rapp, close to the time that Indiana was declared a State and Indianapolis a city. It is located in the southern part of our state. Originally founded as a Lutheran town, it was purchased by Robert Owen in 1825 to establish a utopian community. Despite the failure of Owen’s intended social experiment, the town became a center of scientific and educational significance.
Doug will address the changes to the status of the Scientech Foundation. It will now accept donations directly from retirement accounts. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 8/28/2023 --- Avatar Autonomous Music System Speaker: Jason Palamara,Ph.D. (Email: japalama@iu.edu) Sponsored By: Linda Karwisch (ID: 1856)Avatar program is a machine-learning-enabled "choice engine" which provides a dynamically sensitive duet while listening to live vibraphone performances. The initial version is geared for use with a vibraphone, with additional instruments soon to follow. Using this system, the musician performs improvisations on the vibraphone while the software listens, closely following the vibratione performance. The package employs a Markovchain model culled from Scott Deal's improvisations. The mindfile database allows the software to generate novel content based on Scott Deal's style. While the Markov transition database provides note-to-note transtions, the AvatarPlayer makes use of this data in several ways. Throughout a performance, the AvatarPlayer cycles through five playback behaviors (favor repetition, favor novelty, favor four notes, favor chords, and favor phrases), all of which make use of the databases differently. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 9/11/2023 --- Surgical inventions and the patent dispute that came from it. Speaker: Rick Sasso, MD Sponsored By: Kenton Brett (ID: 1855)Dr. Sasso licensed patents that became the subject of an ongoing legal case which eventually upheld judgement in his favor. He will discuss the invention and the patent case. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 9/18/2023 --- Roving on Mars Speaker: Briony Horgan (Email: Briony@purdue.edu) Sponsored By: Steve Springer (ID: 1852)See above (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 9/25/2023 --- Einstein Lived Here Speaker: Duane Nickell (Email: duane_nickell@yahoo.com) Sponsored By: Alan Dale Schmidt (ID: 1865)Duane Nickell, PhD, will be speaking on his newly-released book, a biographical travel guide to Albert Einstein titled “Einstein Lived Here.” He details places Albert Einstein has lived and the research and accomplishments coinciding with the locations.
(Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 10/2/2023 --- Coyotes in Indiana- Facts and Fiction Speaker: Geriann Albers (Email: galbers@dnr.in.gov) Sponsored By: Karen Bumb (ID: 1860)Coyotes elicit a range of emotions in people. They are native to Indiana and have an interesting history in the state. But their populations were very low for a long time which gives many the perception we didn’t have coyotes for many decades. Coyotes are adept at living in all types of habitats, including urban areas, and this has allowed them to thrive in Indiana.
Join Indiana’s furbearer biologist as she talks about all things coyote. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 10/9/2023 --- The Wetumpka Impact Crater and how fast it happened Speaker: James Lowery (Email: JLowery2@gmail.com ) Sponsored By: Alan Schmidt (ID: 1857)James Lowery has been a tour guide at the Alabama Wetumpka impact crater and has a presentation on it including a description of how fast it all happened. Additional content will mention the impact crater in northwest Indiana and a little about Alabama geology and paleontology. No glaciers got as far south as Alabama so their formations are from the ancient ocean covering Alabama and the creation of the Appalachian Mountains when Africa hit North America. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 10/16/2023 --- How long has man been warming Planet Earth? Speaker: Jim Willson (Email: jimwill7777@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Jim Willson (ID: 1861)When Al Gore's block buster, "The Inconvenient Truth", hit the big screen in 2006, many of us thought we'd been blindsided by a totally new scientific revelation. The fact is that some members of the scientific community had known about the climate warming effects of carbon dioxide for over 200 years. On closer inspection, we find that human activities have been warming Planet Earth for the past 10,000+ years. And that has been a good thing. Without it we'd all be living beneath a 2- to 5-mile thick ice sheet!!! Find out how humans accomplished this. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 10/23/2023 --- Mickey Maurer's Science Fact and Fiction Through the Lens of Vonnegut's Rule for Writers Speaker: Michael Maurer and Julia Whitehead (Email: mmaurer@ibj.com and julia@vonnegutlibrary.org) Sponsored By: Jeff Rasley (ID: 1858)Mickey Maurer has written on science for more than 30 years in his IBJ columns, biographical sketches of science luminaries, and through his own research and work on novels. In an interview with Julia Whitehead, author of "Breaking Down Vonnegut" and founder/CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis, Maurer delves into his fascination with science and writing. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 10/30/2023 --- Learning to Fly Speaker: Don Knebel (Email: knebeldonald@gmail.com) Sponsored By: Don Knebel (ID: 1869)This presentation will photographically visit sites in Indiana and Ohio important to the Wright Brothers' interest in flying and in their eventual mastery of heavier-than-air flight. The sites visited will include the birthplace of Wilbur Wright near New Castle that is now a museum, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop and print shop in Dayton, the Hoffman Prairie field where they learned to fly in 1905, Carillon Historical Park (which displays both a Wright Brothers bicycle and their 1905 airplane), the Wright Brothers' graves, and a memorial to them overlooking Hoffman Prairie Field. The presentation will include engineering details about controlled flight and their first patent. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 11/6/2023 --- Nobel Prizes for 2022 in Chemistry and Physics Speaker: Alan Schmidt, Philip Sowders (Email: alan.schmidt@att.net p.sowders@juno.com) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1851)Alan Schmidt will cover the prize awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.
Philip Sowders will speak about the prize awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 11/13/2023 --- New Studies in Mood Disorders, Bringing Genetic Testing into the Clinic Speaker: John I. Nurnberger Jr. MD, PhD (Email: jnurnber@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Marvin Miller MD (ID: 1867)Dr. Nurnberger will discuss new testing options in psychiatry such as polygenic scores and pharmacogenomic tests as well as BD2, a new Global Bipolar Cohort Study. That study will include building a large Bipolar DNA database (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 11/20/2023 --- Neurology Cases of US Presidents Speaker: Robert Pascuzzi MD (Email: rpascuzz@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Karen Bumb (ID: 1864)This discussion will highlight a handful of US Presidents who experienced neurological illness. These stories illustrate the impact that neurological disorders can have not only on patients but also on events in history. Remembering these famous Presidents allows us to reflect on how far we have come and where we are headed including the efforts to combat serious neurological disease. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 11/27/2023 --- Geology, Water and Climate Speaker: Robert Barr (Email: rcbarr@iupui.edu) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 722)This talk will cover the precipitation patterns in the US and worldwide. He provides evidence that precipitation is coming in increasingly severe events. The presentation also includes information about the severe drought conditions in the U.S. West as well as the latest reports on CO2 emissions with some hopeful trends included. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 12/4/2023 --- Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine and Economic Science Speaker: Tom Lauer and Rick Whitener (Email: Tlauer802@gmail.com, ) Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1853)The 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.
The Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig "for research on banks and financial crises."
The Great Depression of the 1930s paralyzed the world’s economies for many years and had vast societal consequences. However, we have managed subsequent financial crises better thanks to research insights from this year’s laureates. They have demonstrated the importance of preventing widespread bank collapses. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) 12/11/2023 --- Annual Meeting, Elections and Report of Scientech Foundation activities Speaker: Jeff Rasley and Benny Ko Sponsored By: Rick Whitener (ID: 1850)Per our bylaws, this is a required meeting to allow the members to elect officers for 2024. After the election, our Scientech Foundation President and Vice President will report on the activities which occurred in 2023 and plans for 2024. (Log In to view our Scribe's Summary of the Presentation.) |