Calendar of Events
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Tuesday, Sept. 9: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Historical Background on Global Climate Change -- Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker and author, Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Tuesday, Sept. 16: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
The Great Global Warming Hoax? -- URI oceanography professors Rebecca Robinson and John Merrill unwrap the arguments using documentary film clips.
Tuesday, Sept. 23: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Scientific Evidence of Global Climate Change -- Michael E. Mann, director, Earth System Science Center at Penn State.
Tuesday, Sept. 30: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Hollywood Armageddon -- URI professors Kathryn Moran and Tom Zorabedian examine film clips from nightmare narratives through their respective lenses of science and film.
Friday, Oct. 3: 3.00 pm
Roger Williams Lounge
Student Advisory Board meeting -- All honors students are welcome to join. Help shape the Honors Program at URI!
Tuesday, Oct. 7: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Human Transformation of the Americas Before Columbus -- Charles C. Mann, journalist, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.
Wednesday, Oct. 8: 12.00 pm
Lippitt Hall
Ribbon Cutting -- Official opening of Lippitt Hall, the newly renovated home of the Honors Program.
Tuesday, Oct. 14: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Impact of Global Environmental Change on Evolution -- Stephen R. Palumbi, professor, Stanford University, and author of The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change.
Friday, Oct. 17: 3.00 pm
Roger Williams Lounge
Student Advisory Board meeting -- All honors students are welcome to join. Help shape the Honors Program at URI!
Tuesday, Oct. 21: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Geoengineering Solutions to the Greenhouse Problem-- Ralph J. Cicerone, president, National Academy of Sciences.
Tuesday, Oct. 28: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Astonishing Solutions -- URI professors Arthur J. Spivack and James J. Opaluch dissect documentary film clips and discuss mitigating the global carbon-climate problem.
Friday, Oct. 31: 3.00 pm
Roger Williams Lounge
Student Advisory Board meeting -- All honors students are welcome to join. Help shape the Honors Program at URI!
Wednesday, Nov. 12: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
California Action on Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change -- Mary D. Nichols, chairman, California Air Resources Board.
Tuesday, Nov. 18: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Human Effects on the Ocean and its Ecosystems -- Jeremy Jackson, professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.
Tuesday, Dec. 2: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
Solutions to the Global Carbon and Climate Problem -- Robert Socolow, co-director, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University.
Tuesday, Dec. 9: 7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium
It's a Shore Thing--A Coastal Cabaret -- A fresh, salty and musical look at global environmental change in our coastal zones.
