Paul Chinowsky stands outside Regent Hall

RAP Task Force hosting open forums to discuss recommendations

May 1, 2017

An Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee task force will present recommendations on the university's Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) with opportunity for community feedback May 2 and 5. Click through to read more and find answers to frequently asked questions.

NASA MMS Mission rendering

NASA mission results shed light on magnetic reconnection

April 28, 2017

On May 3, LASP space physics research scientist Allison Jaynes will present early results from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, launched in 2015 to study the little-understood phenomenon magnetic reconnection.

Nuremberg trials photo from National Archives 1945-46

Remembering the Nuremberg doctors' trial

April 22, 2017

Tonight, a presentation and panel response titled "Agency in the Midst of Oppression: Jewish Doctors, Ghettos and Public Health" is being held in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg doctors’ trial and national Week of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.

riverbed with rocks, stones

Visiting scholar seminar on freshwater security, science communication

April 21, 2017

On April 26, Caltech professor Jay Famiglietti will discuss the convergence of climate models and decades of satellite data that suggest an unfortunate reality: Earth's water cycle is changing.

Finnish ambassador to the United States Kirsti Kauppi

What makes Finland great for education, research and innovation?

April 20, 2017

On April 28, the Finnish ambassador to the United States Kirsti Kauppi will give a public talk at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Auditorium to discuss education, research and innovation.

Image taken by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO,

Kip Thorne, pioneer in gravitational waves, to give 51st Gamow lecture

April 17, 2017

Kip Thorne, pioneer in gravitational waves and creative force behind ‘Interstellar,’ will give the 51st Gamow lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at Macky Auditorium.

Professor Thomas T. Veblen performing research in forest

Veblen to lecture on human, climate impact on forests and wildfires

April 17, 2017

Professor Thomas T. Veblen will deliver a Distinguished Research Lecture titled "Wildfire regime shifts in Patagonian-Andean forest ecosystems: Feedbacks and consequences in the face of climate and land-use changes" April 25.

Image of neural pathway

Workshop to explore the thrilling science of neuroplasticity

April 13, 2017

The human adult brain was once believed by neuroscientists to be "fixed, ended, immutable," but recent advances have revealed this three-pound organ to be remarkably dynamic. Learn more at the May 2 workshop.

Professor Clara Bargellini

Visiting scholar to lecture on historiography of New Spain art

April 12, 2017

Clara Bargellini has always had an interest in methodological and historiographic problems. On April 19, the professor will speak on the historiography, collection and reception of New Spain art.

Carbondale Branch Library exterior

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Peak to Peak Lecture Series comes to Carbondale

April 12, 2017

On Saturday, April 15, Professor Samuel Boyd will present "Magic, the Bible, and the Biblical Imagination in Jewish Mysticism" at the Carbondale Branch Library in Carbondale, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥.

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