The Reconstruction of Prehistoric Health
Steven M. Duray
Palmer College of Chiropractic
7:00 pm, Wednesday, November 7, 1996
Room M201
Palmer College of Chiropractic
1000 Brady Street
Davenport, Iowa
The presentation focused on two major questions:
- How do anthropologists reconstruct the health of prehistoric people?
- What have we learned from the reconstruction of prehistoric health?
Mummies, bog bodies, the identification of pathological lesions in skeletons from archeological sites and the changing patterns of human health over time were discussed.
Sigma Xi Poster Session
7:00 pm, Tuesday, February 4, 1997
Lower Level of the Campus Center
Palmer College of Chiropractic
Researchers from the Quad Cities area presented the results of their scientific endeavors at the third annual Sigma Xi poster session.
Comet Hale-Bopp
Cecilia Vogel and David Renneke
Augustana College
7:00 pm, Thursday, March 26, 1997
John Deere Lecture Hall
Augustana College
The perihelion date for Comet Hale-Bopp was April 1, 1997. On March 26 we shared information about the comet's characteristics and viewed some images of the comet.
From 7:30 to 8:30 pm about 60 people looked at Comet Hale-Bopp in the on-campus observatory. The sky was perfectly clear! The sun set at 6:21 pm and the comet's altitude at 7:30 was about 22 degrees. We also looked at it with 7 x 50 binoculars. The tail was magnificent! Later, about 9:00 pm, Mike Shaw (an Augustana student) and David Renneke took some
pictures of the comet using an ST-6 CCD camera and an 85 mm lens mounted piggyback on the the telescope. The comet was still visible at 10:00 pm when the observatory was closed. It set at 11:16 pm.
Initiation Banquet for New Members
Tuesday, May 6, 1997, at the Wilson Center, on the campus of Augustana College.
Socializing at 6:00, with a buffet dinner at 6:30, followed by an interesting program:
From the Blue Mountains to the Red Center:
A Seven Thousand Mile Trek Down Under
Bohdan Dziadyk
Biology Department
Augustana College
Cost: $12.50
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