Fairhaven Lecture Series focuses on 'Our Natural World'

January 24, 2008

Every semester, the Fairhaven Lecture Series kicks off an exciting new lecture series. This spring, "Our Natural World" will be the theme for the weekly lectures given to the Fairhaven Retirement Community by UW-Whitewater faculty and staff. The lecture series has a reach further than Fairhaven, with video and audio podcasts of the lectures available for download at the Office of Continuing Education Web site at http://www.uww.edu/conteduc/fairhaven/index.htm.

The series will kick off at 3 p.m., Monday Jan. 28 with a lecture by Stephen Solheim, associate professor in the biological sciences department, "Impacts of White-tailed Deer in Wisconsin Forests." The other lectures scheduled include:

Feb. 4: "The Wolves of Yellowstone National Park"-George Clokey, lecturer of biological sciences.

Feb. 11: "History of the Wisconsin River"-Dale Splinter, assistant professor of geography and geology.

Feb. 18: "A Radical View of Wisconsin Native American Effigy Mounds"-Rex Hanger, associate professor of geography and geology.

Feb. 25: "Nature in the City: Chicago's Green Movement"-Jeffrey Zimmerman, associate professor of geography and geology.

Mar. 3: "The Glacial History of Whitewater"-Peter Jacobs, professor of geography and geology.

Mar. 10: "Less Waste & More Efficiency: Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry"-Paul House, assistant professor of chemistry.

Mar. 17: "Real World Cases in Green Chemistry"-Hassimi Traore, associate professor of chemistry.

Mar. 31: "Contaminants and the Fate of Wisconsin Waters"-Elisabeth Harrahy, assistant professor of biological sciences.

Apr. 7: "Pollination Biologic Sciences in Two Wisconsin Plant Species"-Neil Sawyer, associate professor of biological sciences.

Apr. 14: "Earth and Fire: Volcanism Around the World"-Juk Bhattacharyya, assistant professor of geography and geology.

Apr. 21: "Carnivorous Plants: Wonders of the Natural World"-Terre Golembiewki, laboratory manager of biological sciences.

All lectures begin at 3 p.m. and take place at the Fairhaven Retirement Community, located at 435 West Starin Road in Whitewater. All lectures are open to the public and free of charge. For more information on the lecture series, contact School of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education Dean John Stone at 262-472-1006.