Thursday, 22 Oct 2015
Registration for Seniors: Spring 2016
First day of assigned Spring 2016 registration dates for students projected as seniors. Hours for AccessPlus registration are 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday-Saturday.
Youth Program: Caterpillar Club
"Countdown to Halloween." If you like Kids Story Time, you'll flip for Caterpillar Club. Please join us for winter storytelling twice per month, from October to March.
Live Webinar: Understanding Closed Captioning Standards and Guidelines
With recent legal action concerning accessibility, many organizations are shifting their discussions from whether they need to caption to how they will caption and what defines high quality captioning.
Webinar: Teaching Ethics - A Key Role for Educators
*event is from 1-2pm* To many educators, few teaching subjects are as important as ethics. Whether taught in separate courses or embedded into study of many subjects, ethics go to the goal of producing decent human beings and good citizens, not just those who have specific skill sets.
Agronomy Seminar
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard and Biofuel Sustainability || Presenter: Anthy Alexiades, Air Resources Engineer, California Air Resources Board
Chiral spin liquid in moat lattices or how a moat protects against ordering?
Tigran Sedrakyan University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lecture: Holistic Approaches to a Resilient Future
James Schwab, manager of the American Planning Association's Hazards Planning Research Center, will talk about ways to foster communities that are resilient in the face of natural hazards and climate-change impacts and what stands in the way. Part of the 2015-2016 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series cosponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning and the College of Design.
Cyclone Cinema: Trainwreck
The Student Union Board presents Cyclone Cinema! Showings are FREE in Carver 101 at 7 and 10 p.m. every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope to see you there!
Discussion: Women in the Arts
In 1985, feminist activists created a protest group called the Guerilla Girls. Since then, their purpose has been to underline and expose three major issues women artists, as a whole, have encountered historically: a) their glaring absence in major international museums, b) their (in)voluntary marginalization from history books, c) the lack of funds granted to their projects.
Lecture: The Evolution of Goodness, Justice and Empathy
Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at University of Louisville, where he studies the evolution of social behavior. Sigma Xi Lecture Series