Event Archive
2020
May 22, 2020
Andrew Santella
LESSONS OF THE GREAT PROCRASTINATORS
February 26, 2020
Erica Hartmann
HOW MANMADE CHEMICALS ARE ALTERING OUR MICROBIAL WORLD
January 22, 2020
Ken Paller
DO HOUSE-ELVES CLEAN YOUR BRAIN WHILE YOU SLEEP?
2019
November 20, 2019
Mark Hersam
NANOSTRUCTURED BATTERY MATERIALS: REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSPORTATION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
October 23, 2019
Aaron Packman
PREPARING CHICAGOLAND FOR TOMORROW’S WEATHER
May 22, 2019
Raffaella Margutti
THE BIGGEST EXPLOSIONS IN THE UNIVERSE
April 24, 2019
Neil Kelleher
A BILLION-PIECE PUZZLE: COMPLETING THE HUMAN PROTEIN PROJECT WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
March 27, 2019
Martha Vitaterna
MOON TO MARS: ANTICIPATING THE HUMAN RESPONSE TO SPACE
February 27, 2019
Christopher Kuzawa
ARE DADS WIRED FOR CARE? ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE STRANGE CASE OF HUMAN FATHERHOOD
January 2019 event postponed due to weather.
2018
November 28, 2018
Kevin Boyle
POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN MODERN AMERICA: AN INTIMATE HISTORY
October 24, 2018
Lee E. Miller
AWAKENING PARALYZED LIMBS WITH A BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE
September 26, 2018
Christine Helmer
DOES MARTIN LUTHER MATTER TODAY?
May 23, 2018
Emeline Pouyet
DELVING INTO THE HIDDEN PAINTINGS OF PICASSO
April 18, 2018
Farhad Zadeh
UNVEILING THE UNIVERSE: WHAT DO RADIO WAVELENGTHS REVEAL?
March 21, 2018
Indira Raman
THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAIN
February 21, 2018
Joel L. Voss
TINKERING WITH MEMORY
January 24, 2018
Dick Co
HOUSE BY NORTHWESTERN: Sustainability Without Compromise
2017
November 15, 2017
Kenneth Forbus
WHY YOUR COMPUTER DOESN’T UNDERSTAND YOU (yet)
October 11, 2017
Eli Finkel
September 20, 2017
Shane L. Larson
May 17, 2017
Ravi Allada
WHY DO WE SLEEP?
April 19, 2017
John Rogers
LAB ON THE SKIN
March 22, 2017
Jim Hambleton
WHEN THE EARTH GIVES WAY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE
February 15, 2017
Todd Murphey
ROBOT ARTISTS AND AUTOMATING ART
January 18, 2017
Rachel Davis Mersey
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN POST-FACT POLITICS
2016
November 16, 2016
Seth Stein
LAKE SUPERIOR AND THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT: SOLVING A BILLION YEAR OLD MYSTERY
October 19, 2016
Richard Carew
CANCER: HOW A COLLECTION OF HUMBLE CREATURES PLAYED A STARRING ROLE IN UNDERSTANDING ITS ORIGINS
September 21, 2016
James A. Brown
DISCOVERING AMERICA’S LOST CITY
May 25, 2016
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE CORE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY
April 20, 2016
Emma K. Adam
RACE-RELATED STRESS AND ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT: HOW DISCRIMINATION GETS UNDER THE SKIN AND INTO THE MIND
March 23, 2016
Shane L. Larson
WHISPERS FROM THE COSMOS: THE DAWN OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMYS
February 17, 2016
Marco Gallio
READING THE MIND OF A FLY:WHY WE DO IT AND WHAT CAN IT TEACH US ABOUT OURSELVES
January 20, 2016
Fred Turek
THE CLOCKS WITHIN US
2015
December 2, 2015
Stephen Schueller
RE-BOOTING MENTAL HEALTH: BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION TECHNOLOGIES TO COMBAT DEPRESSION
October 21, 2015
William Klein
WHAT’S BEING DONE TO MAKE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE JUST A MEMORY…
September 16, 2015
Michael Horn
BLOCKS, STICKERS, AND JIGSAW PUZZLES