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Feature
Film
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Guest
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Location
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Date
& Admission
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Herbert D. Kaesz, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA Topic: Serendipity in Science and the discovery of Penicillin. Question and answer period from audience. |
University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA), 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095 Room: Design
Room, 2534
Melnitz Hall, near the corner of Hilgard Ave. and Sunset Blvd. (Northeast) Driving directions: For maps and directions visit: www.ucla.edu/map or call (310) 825-4321 Parking: Park in Structure P3. www.transportation.ucla.edu/parking/p&ibooth.htm |
Friday February 27th, 7-10 PM Admission:
free for UCLA students, ACS members and their guests. Download: PDF announcement and UCLA campus map |
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W.
French Anderson, MD, Director of Gene Therapy Laboratories, Keck
School of Medicine. Dr. Anderson was also the science consultant for the
film GATTACA. Topic: Bioethics and DNA fingerprinting. Question and answer period from audience. |
University of Southern California (USC), corner of Exposition Blvd. and Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA Room: Chemistry
Dept. Auditorium, 123 Seeley G. Mudd Building, on USC's University Park
Campus. Directions: View USC map: www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions Parking: in Structure A on campus, $6 www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/public_parking |
Thursday March
25th, Admission:
free for USC students, ACS members and their guests. Download: |
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Guest Speaker: Stephen Marder, M.D. Professor and Vice-chair of UCLA's Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry; and Director of MIRECC at West LA Veterans Administration Medical Center Topic: Neurochemistry of schizophrenia. |
Loyola Marymount
University (LMU),
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. (310) 338.2700 Room: Ahmanson Theater in University Hall Directions: to Main Westchester Campus: www.lmu.edu/pages/262.asp?EventID=2 Parking: Permits may be obtained free of charge at Entrance to Campus. Please observe all restricted zones. |
Thursday April 29th, 7-10 PM Admission:
free for LMU students, ACS members and their guests. Download: |
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Guest Speaker: Donald Yeomans, Senior Research Scientist at NASA-JPL Topic: Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us. Question and answer period from audience. |
California Institute
of Technology (Caltech),
1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 (626) 395-6811 Room: Beckman Institute Auditorium Directions: www.caltech.edu/map/ Parking: atc.caltech.edu/CIT_Parking/home.htm |
Thursday May 20, 7-10 PM Admission: free for JPL-Caltech students, ACS members and their guests. Download: |
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Guest Speaker: Phil Crews, Professor of Chemistry, Univ. of California -Santa Cruz. Topic: "From Sea to Pharmacy," Natural products research in remote locations. After film screening, speaker presentation and question & answer period, light refreshments will be provided to encourage informal discussion. |
California State University-Long Beach (CSULB) 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 (562) 985-4111 Room: PSY 150, in the Psychology Dept. Directions: daf.csulb.edu/maps/directions/ Parking: daf.csulb.edu/maps/parking/ Arrive before 7 PM and ask Visitor Information Center at entrance for Parking Pass to Lot 5, next to Psychology Building. (Center closes at 7, so please arrive early!) |
Thursday October 28th, 7-10 PM Admission: free for CSULB students, ACS members and their guests Download: |
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Guest Speaker: Lyndee Knox and William King, MD JD. Knox is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine. Dr. King is a Clinical Instructor in the Dept. of Infections Desease at UCLA. Topic: The Tuskegee Experiment, biomedical research for minority communities After film screening, speaker presentation and question & answer period, light refreshments will be provided to encourage informal discussion. |
California African
American Museum (CAAM),
600 State Drive in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90037 (213) 744-7432 Directions: Located next to the Science Center, across from USC and directly off the 110 Harbor Freeway. 110 Southbound: exit Exposition Blvd (carpool exit 39th St); left onto Flower St.; turn left on Figueroa St.; then turn immediately right onto 39th St. and into parking lot. 110 Northbound: Exit King Blvd.; left on King Blvd. to Figueroa St (one block); right on Figueroa St. to 39th St; turn left on 39th and into parking lot. Parking: $6 in Exposition Park parking lot. |
Friday December 3rd, 2-5 PM Admission: free of charge.
Please note: CAAM galleries close at 4 PM. Please plan to arrive before the 2 PM program to view the current exhibits. |
Previous Science in the Cinema presentations:
UCLA Professor John R. Froines & Screening of "Erin Brockovich"
The Southern California Section (SCALACS) was awarded an ACS Innovative Project Grant to launch the Science in the Cinema-Los Angeles program. Similar to the Science in the Cinema program started at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), our program presents feature films with science themes, followed by a guest speaker's discussion on a related topic.
The Science in the Cinema-Los Angeles program focusses on bringing together students from different disciplines - such as chemistry, film and communications - for informal discussions. Our goal is to get film and communication students to better understand science, and science students to value good communication skills. According to the National Science Foundation, the representation of science in popular culture plays a very important role in the public's perception and in students' career choices. [www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/c7/c7h.htm]
To read the Science News article on film and science education, "What's Wrong with This Picture? Educating via Analyses of Science in Movies and TV," please visit: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041016/bob10.asp
Also see New York Times article,"Forget Star Chemistry. How About the Film's?" by Randy Kennedy, front page of the The Arts Section, B1, NYT Sept. 30, 2004.
ACS members and and student affiliates interested in getting involved should contact Susana Maria Halpine: shalpine@earthlink.net or Joy Goto: JGoto@coh.org
For the latest information on the program visit the Science in the Cinema-Los Angeles site at:
