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Science Sundays

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Science Sundays is a free lecture series open to the public that provides a wide range of current and emerging topics and issues in science that touch our everyday lives. Speakers are experts in their fields from on campus and around the world with experience in making their topics interesting and accessible for audiences of all ages, with or without a science background.

John M. Horack - Gamma Ray Bursts: A Brief History of the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe

April 5, 2020

Gamma-ray bursts, discovered by accident with classified satellites, were for decades a leading mystery in astrophysics. John M. Horack explores the b...

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Kate Zwaard - Collections as Data: Combining Data Science and the Power of Library Collections to Unlock New Understanding

March 1, 2020

While the digital revolution has changed the way libraries serve their users, it’s also enabled new modes of research and creativity. Kate Zwaard will...

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Barbara Piperata - Food insecurity and Mental Health: An Underexplored Global Health Concern

February 2, 2020

Food insecurity is on the rise, affecting the nutrition and mental health of around 821 million people. Drawing on research from Nicaragua, Barbara Pi...

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Amanda Hummon - Diagnosing Cancer with Molecular Imaging

January 12, 2020

Science and medicine are at an exciting crossroads. Recent developments in the clinical laboratory are being implemented in research hospitals and wil...

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Nandini Trivedi - Superconductivity: From the Quantum Dance of Electrons to Levitated Trains and Quantum Computers

December 1, 2019

In this lecture, physicist Nandini Trivedi will explain why a piece of metal can superconduct, that is allow electricity to flow without any resistanc...

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Karen Lloyd - The Strange Microbes Deep Inside Earth and What They Do

November 17, 2019

In this lecture, Karen G. Lloyd will introduce the vast and diverse microbial ecosystem that was recently discovered buried deep within Earth’s crust,...

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Dustin Mixon - The Mathematics of Partisan Gerrymandering

October 13, 2019

Every decade, politicians update voting districts to account for population shifts as measured by the U.S. Census. Of course, partisan politicians are...

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Marcos Sotomayor - The Molecular Machinery of Hearing

September 8, 2019

The human hearing organ is exceptional in its ability to sense sound across a wide range of frequencies and intensities. The process of sound conversi...

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Laurie Cutting - Educational Neuroscience: How the Brain Supports Learning in Children and Adolescents

April 14, 2019

Educational neuroscience draws upon cognitive neuroscience, education and psychology with the goal of examining neurobiological processes related to e...

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Robert Hazen - The Story of Earth: How Life and Rocks Have Co-Evolved

March 17, 2019

The story of Earth is a 4.5-billion-year saga of dramatic transformations driven by physical, chemical and biological processes. The co-evolution of l...

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