Tentative Schedule for HSS 189 Freshman Seminar  (Fall 2012)

Week

Date

Topics

1

Sep 5

 2012 IBS Symposium on Nano Imaging Sciences for Biomedical Exploration, Seoul, Korea  (No class)

2

Sep 12

1. Overview

Integrative Bioengineering?

3

Sep 19

2. Personalized medicine & Nanomedicine

Medicine's future? There's an app for that

4

Sep 26

3. Biomimetics & Bioinspiration

Learning from the gecko's tail

5

Oct 3

The National Foundation Day of Korea

6

**Oct 12

Student Activities (Climbing the Gyejoksan)

7

Oct 17

Movie I, Innerspace I

8

Oct 24

* Midterm Exam. Periods (10/22~26)  

9

Oct 31

Movie II, Innerspace II

10

Nov 7

4. Biomaterials

The magnificence of spider silk

11

Nov 14

5. Tissue Engineering

Printing a human kidney   

12

Nov 21

6. Lab-on-a-chip

A lab the size of a postage stamp

13

Nov 28

7. Synthetic Biology/ Neurobiology

A light switch for neurons

14

Dec 5

8. Brain Science & Engineering

Reengineers a brain

15

Dec 12

9. Sensor and robot

My seven species of robot (Self study)

16

Dec 19

* Final Exam. Periods (12/17~21)