The Stroud Science Symposium brings a leading scientist to campus each year to work with students on topics related to the visitor’s expertise. This experience allows students to access real-world applications, bringing what they learn in class to life. It also highlights how science solves contemporary problems and reinforces the importance of being scientifically well-informed.

Inaugurated in 2000, the Stroud Science Symposium is named in honor of Dixon Stroud, a Kingswood Oxford grandfather and founder of the Stroud Water Research Center of Pennsylvania. The Center is a renowned laboratory dedicated to the research, restoration, and preservation of freshwater habitats.

Visiting Stroud Scientists

• Tiffany Jones, MD, a sports psychologist consultant who looks at using biofeedback to understand anxiety and manage mentality

• Caesar Anderson, MD, MPH, ‘92, a plastic surgeon who specializes in the use of hyperbaric treatment for wound care and healing

• Marshall Barnes, independent researcher, development engineer, and conceptual theorist focusing on time travel

• Marc Zimmer, Ph.D., a professor at Connecticut College working with GFP (green fluorescent protein) in basic research

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

• 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

• Paul Kurlansky, M.D., ’70, a heart surgeon who spoke about his work in emerging areas of cardiovascular research

• Gregory Shoukimas, M.D., Ph.D., ’68, a radiologist who spoke about the evolution of medical imaging

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

• 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

• Edwin F. Ladd, Ph.D., ’82, a Bucknell University physicist who spoke about the formation of stars and solar systems

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

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

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

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

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

• 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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