Post Tagged with: "Science Cafe"

Science Café presents Dr. Julie Suhr on “Detecting Deception” on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Suhr, Professor of Psychology at Ohio University, first began studying deception during her undergraduate years, when she used polygraphs in her research. Since then she has studied […]

Science Café presents Dr. Sarah Wyatt on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Wyatt is Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University. She will talk about plants, gravity and her lab’s recent spaceflight experiments. Plants have evolved on Earth to use gravity as […]

Science Café presents Dr. Ronan Carroll discussing “Vaccine Denial: Facts and Fiction,” on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Flu season means vaccination time. Last year was a high-severity flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overall hospitalization rates […]

Science Café  presents Dr. Natalie Kruse Daniels discusses “The Long Road to Recovery from Coal Mining” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Daniels is Associate Professor in the Voinovich School at Ohio University. Watch live or later on A&S TV. What’s hidden […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Julie Paxton on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Paxton is Professor of Economics at Ohio University. Can people be nudged to behave altruistically? People rely on problem-solving rules called heuristics to make decisions easier. Behavioral economists seek to […]

Science Café kicks off Fall 2018 with Dr. Scott Moody discussing “Athens, OH, 240 Years Ago: A Natural History” on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Moody is Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. Following the settlement of the Revolutionary War […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Laeeq Khan discussing “Competing with Data Analytics in a Social World” on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. Khan is Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University. Responding to the changing environment, organizations are employing data analytics […]