Upcoming Events
Lunch and Learn with Suzanne Hovik Fuller
The museum is pleased to welcome Suzanne Hovik Fuller, author of “The Girl Who Moved to the Town That Wasn’t There”, for a full day of educational programs at the museum. Suzanne’s book is written about the founding of the village of Egan in the Dakota Territory and is written for an upper elementary and middle school grade level. The book has won two awards including the 2021 WILLA Literary Award for Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction and a silver award for Children’s Fiction from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.
How to Assist Youth with ADHD
Join us as Rachael Moe, MA, LPC-MH presents on how to assist youth with ADHD.
Preparing the Next Generation of Environmental Problem Solvers
Valery E. Forbes is Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Dean of the College of Biological Sciences at University of Minnesota (since July 31, 2015). From 2011-2015 she was Director of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. From 1989-2010, she lived and worked in Denmark, most recently as the Founding Chair of the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change and Professor of Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology at Roskilde University. Dr.
Past Events
Green Chemistry
Industry pioneer and world-renowned chemist John Warner has joined the Zymergen team as a Distinguished Research Fellow. John is a global leader in green chemistry, with hundreds of patents to his name, and a prominent academic figure who brought green chemistry to the mainstream.
This event is for the Chemistry Club at SDSU.
CommUNITY Meeting: Afro-Indigenous Speaker
Creator of the blog RadianTrootsBoricuaBranches Teresa Vega holds a background in anthropology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College and previously worked as an adjunct professor in Cultural Anthropology while attending CUNY Graduate School and University Center’s doctoral program in Anthropology. Through her background in cultural anthropology, she has been able to research her ancestral roots, sparking the start of her blog. There she shares her genealogy research on both her maternal mixed race African-American side as well as her Puerto Rican paternal side.
On the Moral Duty to Prevent Harm* (*Especially in Times of Pandemics) - 2021 Annual Bioethics Lecture
Do healthcare workers have a moral duty to aid others even when doing so imposes a significant risk to their own welfare?
Consistent Daily Rhythms Accelerate the Recovery of the Gut Microbiome from Antibiotic Treatment: Lessons Learned from Gut Microbiome and Other Synthetic Microbial Consortia
Chi Zhao, Postdoctoral Scholar, Research, Vanderbilt University, Biological Sciences
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series
Chemistry in Industry
Presentation for Chem Club by a department alumni, Dr. Tom Offerdahl. He plans to discuss how his experiences at SDSU prepared him for working in the chemistry industry and his current role at the pharmaceutical company he currently works for. Presentation will be delivered via Zoom.
Single-Nuclei Multiomics to Link Plant Cell Identity and Molecular Landscapes
Marc Libault, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series
Human Rights in the Americas
Luz Angélica Kirschner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of American and Global Studies SDSU
9th Annual College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences JP Hendrickson Liberal Arts Faculty Scholar and Herbert Cheever Jr. Lecture
Discovering Microbiome Ecology with the C. elegans Model
Dr. Nic Vega has been an Assistant Professor of Biology at Emory University in Atlanta since 2018. Before starting at Emory, Dr. Vega was a postdoctoral associate in Physics of Living Systems at MIT. The Vega lab uses integrated computational and experimental approaches to study the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiota, with the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a tractable model host.
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series.
National Hispanic Heritage Month Comedian: Renee Santos
Renee Santos burst onto the Stand Up comedy scene 10 years ago in her first National Television debut on Showtime Network’s “Pride Comedy Jam." The Network touts, “a hip and hilarious show with a great ensemble of up and coming diverse comics, including the witty anecdotes of Latina Lesbian comic Renee Santos.” She has been a regular on the Los Angeles comedy scene performing consistently at local clubs, including the Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and the Hollywood Improv, and in April of 2015 became a Bi-Coastal Comic earning residency at NYC’s New York Comedy Club.
Building Arts and Labor Symposium
Morning Session
Harnessing Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria for Sustainable Agriculture
Barney Geddes, Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University, Department of Microbiological Sciences
Part of the Corothers Life Science Series
Eat a Plum, Give a Peach - 2021 Stuart Artist-in-Residence Lecture
Duy Hoàng is an interdisciplinary artist born in Vietnam in 1989 and moved to the U.S. during his early adolescence. With family dispersed overseas after the war, he was amongst the last of his family to leave the country and reunite with them in Massachusetts. Hoàng spent his teenage years grappling to adapt to the foreign cultural dynamics and later driven on to get his BFA at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2013. He then moved to New York to achieve his MFA at Columbia University in 2017.
Outdoor Concert Bash
The Residence Hall Programming Committee's opening event will include band The Icarus Account. The Miller Wellness Center will hold a S'more workshop and RHA, Hall Government and Greek Life recruitment information will be included.
The Icarus Account is made up of twin brothers, Ty and Trey Turner. They started recording music in 2006. While they cringe listening to those early recordings, it laid the foundation for their work today. Currently, they both live in Florida and write and record out of the studio they built in Melbourne.
Planning for Retirement? Isn't It Too Early for That?
Jenn Everson is an SDSU graduate who works in town as a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones, a national financial planning firm, and will discuss the time value of money and importance of saving for retirement early.
Sponsored by: The Economics Club