Stroud Science Symposium


Theoretical Physicist Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D., the 2013 Stroud Science Symposium Speaker

Inaugurated in the spring of 2000, the Stroud Science Symposium is named in honor of a KO grandfather, Dixon Stroud, founder of the Stroud Water Research Center of Pennsylvania, a renowned laboratory dedicated to research, restoration and preservation of freshwater habitats. The Symposium is designed to bring leading scientists in a variety of fields to address and work with our students, giving them access to real-world applications of the material covered in their science classes, highlighting the various roles science plays in solving problems and reinforcing the importance of every citizen to be scientifically well-informed.

Stroud Science Symposium Speakers

2013 - Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D., a UConn theoretical physicist who spoke on the possibilities of time travel. 

2012 - Theodore Schwartz, M.D., a neurosurgeon who spoke on a variety of topics including his assertion that there is no link between cell phone use and malignant brain tumors.

2011 - Canceled due to snow

2010 - Paul Kurlansky, M.D., ' 70, a heart surgeon who spoke about his work in emerging areas of cardiovascular research;

2009 – Gregory Shoukimas, M.D., Ph.D., ' 68, a radiologist who spoke about the evolution of medical imaging;

2008 – Peter Hildebrand, Ph.D., chief of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who spoke about climate change;

2007 – Jane Aronson, D.O., a pediatrician and executive medical director and founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), who spoke about HIV and AIDS in Ethiopia and HIV-infected orphans;

2006 – Edwin F. Ladd, Ph.D., ' 82, a Bucknell University physicist who spoke about the formation of stars and solar systems;

2005 – Robert Thorson, Ph.D., a UConn geologist who addressed the issue of global warming;

2004 – Will Cross ' 78, a mountaineer and world explorer who has Type 1 diabetes and who studies the body’s response to extreme physical stress;

2003 – Harlan Halverson, a marine researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who lectured on marine fisheries depletion and conservation;

2002 – Ed Stone, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology physics professor, who shared his experiences as a director of the NASA Voyager Project;

2001 – Norman Gershenz, Ph.D., director of the Center for Ecosystem Survival at San Francisco State University, who spoke about preservation;

2000 – Daniel Janzen, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, technical advisor to Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, a 250,000-acre preserve in Costa Rica.
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