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Research Colloquium Dinner
Faculty Colloquium for Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity
The Faculty Colloquium for Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity Dinner advances the mission of the Faculty Center by providing CSUSM faculty an opportunity to present their scholarly research to their university colleagues. The colloquium series is widely praised because it fosters collegiality and intellectual engagement across the disciplines. The Faculty Center Advisory Council selects one faculty presenter for each academic semester. Faculty members purchase tickets for the catered event. The colloquia are limited to CSUSM tenure-track faculty, lecturer faculty, and adÂministrators with faculty rank. Faculty are encouraged to respond to the forthcoming call and nominate colleagues for future colloquia.
Fall 2024
The Soup that Blue Up Twitter
Speaker: Associate Professor, Biology Elinne Becket, Ph.D.
- Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2024, 5:00pm to 8:00 pm
- Location: CSUSM McMahan House
The beauty of doing science is the shared curiosity and collaboration among people
working towards answering important questions about the world around us. In this presentation,
Dr. Becket will talk about building this community, the importance of open science,
and how soup forgotten in the back of the fridge led to scientists from across the
globe coming together to in a joyous exploration of scientific discovery.
In February 2023, Dr. Becket discovered that leftovers from a beef soup lovingly prepared
by her mom for her birthday had turned a bright shade of blue. Initially disgusted
but then prompted (goaded) by a community of scientists and people of all walks of
life on Twitter, she and a global team of eager microbiologists and chemists set out
to determine what turned this soup blue.
