DCIS Lecture Series 2024-2025

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The 2024-2025 Lecture Series for the Delaware County Institute of Science is scheduled for October 2024-May 2025. The monthly sessions will take place online via Zoom or in person (see schedule for details). Sessions are free and open to anyone - please note that pre-registration is required for Zoom-only sessions.​

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All talks begin at 7:30PM. For the sessions at DCIS, the doors open at 7PM.

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Monday, October 14 2024 - in person at DCIS

• “Philadelphia Red-tailed Hawks on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
  2009-2019” --Pamela Dimler (Naturalist Photographer)

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Monday, November 11 2024 - in person at DCIS

• “Identification of Microscopic Fibers” --Robert Carlton, Ph.D. (Carlton Microscopy & Consulting)

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Monday, December 9 2024 - in person at DCIS

• “Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in the Delaware Valley” --Harold Finnigan, M.S.

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Monday, January 13 2025 - online in Zoom

• “From Cameras to Conservation: How Your Clicks Help Protect
  African Wildlife” --Meredith S. Palmer, Ph.D. (Princeton University)

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Monday, February 10 2025 - online in Zoom

• ​“The Ancestry of T. Rex: A New Tyrannosaurus and its Implications for the
  Evolution of Tyrannosaurs” --Steven Jasinski, Ph.D. (Harrisburg U. of Science & Technology)

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Monday, March 10 2025 - in person at DCIS

• “A New Frontier of DNA/RNA Sequencing -- What Are We Learning” --Loren Buhle, Ph.D. (VP, DNAnexus)

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Monday, April 14 2025 - in person at DCIS

• “From Somersetshire to Darby: Uncovering Family History through Delaware County Historical Society” --Paul J. Hewes Jr., M.S. (Delaware County Historical Society)

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Monday, May 12 2025 - in person at DCIS 

• “Making the World’s Smallest Robot” --Marc Miskin, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Laboratory)

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To learn more about our previous speakers and to view recordings
from the Science Behind Climate Solutions series,
visit our Previous Lectures page.​

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