Events

MLK and Strategies for Social Change: Then & Now is a panel discussion about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategic vision for creating social change and how activists are inspired by him today in the struggle for racial justice. The panel discussion is Friday, Jan. 23, from […]

Professor Sheila Bedi delivers a public lecture as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day events on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 5-7 p.m. in Baker Ballroom A. Her lecture is on “Tearing Down the Walls:  The Urgent Human Rights Crisis in U.S. Prisons and Jails and the Imperative to […]

The Condensed Matter & Surface Sciences Colloquium Series presents Leigh M. Smith on “Controlling and Measuring the Energy Landscape in Single Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures” on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter Lecture Hall 245. Abstract: There has been intense interest in recent years to control the electronic structure […]

The Biological & Biomedical Research Seminar series presents Dr. Anne Trainor on “Finding Common Ground: Integrating Spatial Ecology and Conservation Science into Land-Use Planning” on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 3 p.m. in Irvine 159. Trainor is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an […]

 Science Café presents Dr. Carl Brune on “Cosmic Cooking: the Origin of Elements” on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Atoms are the building blocks that make up the world around us. These small units of matter are composed of nuclei and electrons, […]

The Food Studies curricular theme begins the spring semester with informational sessions on two opportunities to study food and culture, one in Sicily and one in Washington, D.C. Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in Ellis 103. Learn more about the Food in Sicily Maymester experience abroad. Jan. 22 at 6 […]

The Mathematical Biology Seminar series presents Xue Gong on “Mathematical models in emergent behaviors in biological complex systems” on Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 5:15 pm to 6:10 pm at Morton 313. Abstract: Emergence in complex systems is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller […]