October marks the beginning of another season of LASP public lectures. On Oct. 4, Bill Possel presents "Out of this World! Operating the Kepler Mission with University Students."
Executives from Lyft, Comcast, Molson Coors and 5280 magazine will be on campus for an interactive discussion and networking event addressing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
The Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department invites you to its Oct. 3 Think! Talk, addressing what philosophers call the problem of the diversity of revelations.
Jonathan Templin, awarded the inaugural Robert L. Linn Memorial Lecture held alternately at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and UCLA, will discuss bettering assessment practice and policy on Friday at Old Main.
Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, presents his CIRES Distinguished Lecture "The past and future of drought in the Western United States" at 3 p.m. Sept. 29.
The Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy presents "Science, Religion, and Land: the West and the Rest" on Oct. 9 and "Animals, Fetuses, and Morality" on Oct. 10.
Faculty and staff are invited to explore innovative approaches to creating a culture supportive of undergraduate research, as well as Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program funding.
Jonathan Lippman, former chief judge of New York and a pioneer in addressing access to justice, will deliver the sixth John Paul Stevens Lecture, "Changing the Dialogue on Access to Justice."
On Sept. 21, Professor Michael Huemer will discuss why people are especially irrational about politics, and how and why they adopt the beliefs they want to adopt. The bad news? You're probably being irrational, too.
Three faculty experts will speak on the complexity of preparing, gender inequalities in disasters, and the principles and challenges of using insurance to manage catastrophic risk.