SURROUNDED BY SCIENCE
Sixty-minute programs. Program copies are available at the Parkland College Library.
Executive producer: Barbara Gladney • Director, Michael Coulter.
EVOLUTION
Professor Rich Blazier, Chair Parkland Natural Science Department, provides an overview of the basics of evolution and joins Dave Leake and Heidi Leuszler in a lively discussion of the topic. Dr. Abigail Salyers, Professor of Microbiology, University of Illinois, explains antibiotic resistance in bacteria to illustrate evolution in action. (December 2002)
I’M SICK. GIVE ME ANTIBIOTICS
Antibiotic resistance an increasingly important issue in our lives. Learn what bacteria are, how antibiotics kill bacteria, why resistance to antibiotics is occurring, and what we can do about it. Professor Abigail Salyers, Professor of Microbiology, U of I; June Burch, Health Specialist, Parkland; Dr. Ann Marty, Carle Clinic Family Practice, Monticello; Lynda Creutzburg, Employee Health/Infection Control Coordinator, Provena Medical Center, Urbana; and Lynn Reagan, Manager Infection Control, Carle Clinic Hospital,Carle Clinic Association. (March 2002)
MEADOWBROOK PRAIRIE PARK
Experience what the Illinois landscape was like for the early settlers. Tour Meadowbrook Park in Urbana, Illinois with Robert Vaiden, Parkland Instructor and Geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey, and Heidi Leuszler. (June 2002)
EYE ON THE WEATHER
Ed Kieser, Meteorologist at WILL and Parkland Instructor, discusses meteorology, how and why he became a meteorologist, his work at WILL-TV and radio, and his classes at Parkland. (October 2002)
3, 2, 1, LIFT-OFF!
Dave Leake and Heidi Leuszler talk with Jonathan Sivier and Alan Carroll with the Central Illinois Aerospace (CIA), the local rocket club, and find out about rockets as a hobby. Dr. Michael Heath, Director, U of I Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) and Dr. Mark Brandyberry, Senior Research Scientist at the Center, join the discussion on the relationship of local research to the national rocket program. (December 2002)
THE FLATLANDS TELL A STORY
Bob Viaden, Illinois State Geological Survey and Parkland Instructor, tells the fascinating story of Illinois. Why is Illinois so flat? Why does it produce so much coal? Why is southern Illinois so different from the rest of the state? (March 2002)
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP: DOWN-TO-EARTH ASTRONOMY
Dave Leake and Heidi Leuszler talk with Astronomy Instructor Rob Klinger about how astronomers are working to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. Learn how students can watch the stars away from the city lights. Dave interviews Wayne James at his observatory in Mansfield and Jeff Bryant at the C-U Astronomical Society’s observatory southwest of Champaign. (October 2003)
SAVING ILLINOIS: CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL AREAS
Efforts to conserve the remaining local natural areas by: James Ellis, Botonist, Illinois Natural History Survey, President, Grand Prairie Friends; Kristina Hubert, Director of Natural Resources, Champaign County Forest Preserve District; and Earl Creutzburg, Parkland Professor Emeritus and Biology Forest Preserve Commissioner, at Patton Woods. (December 2003)
DIETING AND CARBOHYDRATES
An informative discussion by: Parkland Biology Instructor, Donna Erikson, dietician, U of I researcher; Jennifer Seyler, U of I researcher; Dr. Beth Flickinger, Department of Food Science, U of I; Karen Kelly and Susan Kundrat, nutritionists. Co-produced by Toni Burkhalter (May 2004)
SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS
Explore the educational theory of “Constructivism” and science education in the schools with Dr. David Brown, U of I College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction and Kevin Kuppler, Champaign schools science coordinator (August 2004)
SURROUNDED BY CORNFIELDS
Science in agriculture. Tour Parkland’s Ag Open House and hear from area experts, instructors, and students on how science grows the cornfields that surround us.
