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  • Alzheimer's Disease: View streaming video of the HBO program on Alzheimer's disease
  • Social Security: Read a Summary of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees Annual Report

Archive of Colloquia & Brown Bag Schedule


The Colloquia Series 2010-2011
Program:

  • “Economics of Health Care Reform” presented by Dr. Kumar Kangayappan, Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, Economics and Interdisciplinary Studies, 2 p.m., October 5th, 2010.
  • “Gender and Aging” presented by Dr. Christine Smith, Professor of Human Development and Psychology, 2 p.m., November, 11th, 2010.
  • “The New Potential of Stem Cells” presented by Dr. Dennis Lorenz, Professor of Human Development and Psychology, 2 p.m., February 8th, 2011.
  • “The Ethics of Euthanasia” presented by Dr. Derek Jeffreys, Professor of Religious Studies and Humanistic Studies, 2 p.m., April 19th, 2011.

All presentations will occurred in the University Union, Alumni Room B from 2 pm to 3:20 pm.


Brown-Bag Schedule 2010-11:

  • October 8th - Stacie Herzog "Caregiver Stress"
  • November 12th - Sandy Stokes "Medical Literacy"
  • December 10th - no meeting/end of semester
  • January 14th - no meeting/semester break
  • February 11th - Noreen Greatens and Peggy Collinsmith "Legacies Arts Project"
  • March 11th - Cancelled
  • April 8th - Doreen Higgins "Minority Elders & Federal Health Care Policy"
  • May 13th - no meeting/end of semester