Featured Speakers: Mary E. S. Case, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner, St. Louis County Medical Examiner’s Office, St. Charles, Jefferson, and Franklin counties; Professor of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

W. Christopher Long, P.D., Director of Toxicology & Associate Professor of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Everyday casualties, assaults, traffic accidents, foul play, murder, illness, and suspicious circumstances… Forensic scientists are the living interpreters for the voices of the dead, the end of their stories told through the egalitarian scientific work of the often sleep deprived scientists who investigate unusual death. In our high-tech world of spectacularly fast computer algorithms for DNA and data analysis, how do we establish cause of death? What happens in the autopsy rooms, toxicology, and pathology laboratories of the scientists and medical doctors working in forensic science? St. Louis County Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Mary Case and forensic toxicologist, Dr. Christopher Long, document this curious science in service to the stories of lives lived that every victim has to tell.

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Science Seminar Series Co-sponsored by:

John S. Rigden, Ph.D., 2008 Outstanding Scientist Educator Award recipient, Academy of Science – St. Louis; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society; Honorary Professor of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

False color image of the star AE Aurigae. The star’s carbon-rich dust grains may be hiding deuterium, a tracer of star and galaxy evolution. Credit: T.A. Rector and B.A. Wolpa, NOAO, and NSF.

It is currently thought that the universe began around 14½ billion years ago with a bang – a Big Bang. This belief, of course, raises tantalizing questions; but it’s also supported by persuasive evidence. One piece of evidence comes with the water we drink and the simplest of all atoms, heavy hydrogen, also known as deuterium. With a salute to human ingenuity and a tip of the hat to lady luck, author and nationally know physicist, Dr. John Rigden, discusses how physicists have discovered a way to use deuterium as a check on the validity of the Big Bang hypothesis. We shall see how this happened in this fascinating peek at how the simple informs the complex.

Book signing, Hydrogen: The Essential Element, with author, John Rigden, following talk.

False color image of the star AE Aurigae. The star’s carbon-rich dust grains may be hiding deuterium, a tracer of star and galaxy evolution. Credit: T.A. Rector and B.A. Wolpa, NOAO, and NSF.

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Science Seminar Series Co-sponsored by:

Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., Fellow, Academy of Science – St. Louis; Washington University in St. Louis, Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor, Director, McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership, and Chair, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering

With the world’s need for energy consumption predicted to double by 2050, producing abundant, affordable, and environmentally benign energy is one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges. Here in St. Louis, scientists are tackling the global challenges of engineering clean energy. Aerosol Science and Engineering makes possible critical and practical applications in a number of areas of science of importance to us all, areas such as electronics and pharmaceuticals; and it has vast and far reaching practical applications in the search for solutions to today’s banner headline issue, energy and the environment. Environmental engineer, Dr. Pratim Biswas explores engineering nanoparticles, to tell us how nanoparticle aerosol science and technology are helping to enable advanced energy technology solutions.

He discusses energy technologies applicable over multiple time scales—from current fossil fuel use and new modalities in coal combustion, to biofuels usage and sustainable solar energy technologies using new nanostructured materials; and he looks at the environmental technologies that are addressing the control of fine particulate matter and mercury emissions. This is applied science at its best, working to engineer clean energy across the globe.

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