BI152 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION

Spring 2010 - Bonus Seminars

        Each semester, the Department of Biology and the Environmental Science Program offer, on an irregular basis, seminars on various issues. These will also provide you with an opportunity to earn 'Bonus' points in the Miscellaneous Category in this course, .  Most of seminars will last approximately an hour - but some will be shorter and some may be a little longer.  Besides offering you bonus points, these seminars also frequently offer you an opportunity to learn a little about the issues that interest or concern fellow scientists.

        From each of these seminars, you can earn up to 20 bonus points  by attending the seminar AND providing a typed response to the following question to be submitted within one week of the presentation (can be submitted by e-mail):

         "In what way, and to what extent, does the presentation suggest the application of the process of science as conjecture and refutation as we are discussing it in the course? (HINT: see Figure 1.3 {and oft-times repeated} in the Laboratory Manual)."
        Note that not all talks listed will necessarily follow the model - so be thoughtful and critical in your evaluation. A simple summary of the presentation will not earn maximum points.

Seminar Schedule:
        While some of these are general audience University Studies target presentations and will not necessarily be expected to follow the scientific format in any way (so don't credit all talks with following the conjecture and refutation format), many of these will be either thesis defenses or graduate student seminars in the Biology Department.  The graduate seminars are held in Magill 232; you are advised to come early and plan to stay through as many as you wish to hear.  Don't expect to come just for the second (or third if there is one) presentation when two or three occur on the same day and easily find  a seat . Please do not disrupt the flow of the sessions  by leaving or arriving during a presentation.  If BI152 student participation in the seminars becomes disruptive, this bonus opportunity will be discontinued immediately. 

NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for the same seminar given as a Graduate Seminar presentation and a thesis defense.
       

** You cannot earn credit for both a Thesis Preview in BI690 and the same Thesis Defense itself. 
Pick just one to attend.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU SIGN THE CIRCULATING LIST TO CONFIRM YOUR PRESENCE AT THE EVENT,  INDICATING CLEARLY YOUR NAME, COURSE AND SECTION NUMBER.

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