Hi all,



If people do not object, I would like to hold our regular Friday group meeting on Wednesday this week. It appears that 12-1 is free for most people.  Does anyone object strongly?



There are two reasons for the temporary change:



1) So that Dave can join for the meeting and see what we’ve been up to.  In this regard, please prep a few slides (more than 2 but not more than 5), to summarize what has been going on lately - and summarize a little more than the usual weekly report;



2) The second reason is I’d like everyone who is interested to be able to attend the College of Science event below.  Among the names in the word-cloud below (and who presumably we will learn something about there) are:

- Marie Curie, the discover of radioactivity;

- Maria Goeppert Meyer, the first proposer of double beta decay; and

- Irene Joliot Curie, who made and identified the first artificial radioisotopes

They created our field and we should go and hear about them!





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Ben Jones

Assistant Professor of Physics

University of Texas at Arlington

817-272-2295

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From: "Pederson, Gregory P" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>

Subject: Free performance of "No Belles" - 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, SEIR Building Room 198

Date: October 1, 2018 at 12:43:18 PM CDT

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Greetings all,

Please join us for a free performance of the critically acclaimed play, “No Belles: Stories of Women in Science,” which weaves together the stories of some of the most fascinating women to don a lab coat. To date, 599 individuals have won a Nobel Prize in the sciences; only 17 have been women. Using simple staging and storytelling, “No Belles” brings to life the struggles, determination, and perseverance of women whose work changed the face of science – Nobel Prize winners Rosalyn Yalow and Rita Levi-Montalcini, along with Rosalind Franklin, who didn’t win the Prize but whose work contributed to understanding the structure of DNA.  In addition, shorter stories of a number of other scientists are included to create a tapestry of women who not only overcame great obstacles, but who also saw great triumphs in their life and work.



What: Performance of “No Belles”

When: 3-4 p.m. Friday, October 5

Where: SEIR Building, Room 198

Admission is free and is open to all



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