Robert I. Strozier Lecture Series showcases Armstrong Campus faculty research
Photography Professor Bridget Conn
- Friday, Feb. 16, Engineering Professor Cameron Coates, Ph.D., will discuss, 鈥淛ourney to Mars: Test Activities at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center,鈥� highlighting NASA鈥檚 plan to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. A fixture on the Armstrong Campus since 2002, Coates was selected as a NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Faculty Fellow at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last two summers. He earned master鈥檚 and bachelor鈥檚 degrees in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 聽聽聽聽聽聽
- Friday, March 23, Anthropology Professor Laura Seifert will present, 鈥淒igging Savannah: Monks, Freedman, Ghosts and Myths.鈥� Her lecture will focus on recent research at both the Benedictine Monastery and Freedman School on Skidaway Island, and the Sorrel-Weed House on Madison Square. While new historical details bring up thorny issues of privilege and descendant communities鈥� access to their own past, she will also discuss how to introduce new histories to old sites and how to address archaeological findings that contradict historical myths. Seifert holds master鈥檚 and bachelor鈥檚 degrees in anthropology from East Carolina University.
- Friday, April 13, Chemistry Professors Sarah Gray, Ph.D., and Sarah Zingales, Ph.D., will present, 鈥淗optimization of the Brewing Process: How Beer is Made.鈥� The talk will cover the general brewing process and the ingredients that go into making beer, as well as what leads beer to skunk, and how you can avoid it. In addition, their collaboration with a local microbrewery, Southbound Brewing Company, will be discussed. Gray earned a doctorate in analytical chemistry from the University of Montana and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College. Zingales holds doctorate and master鈥檚 degrees in organic chemistry 聽from Georgia State University.