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Honors Program

Calendar of Events








When? Where? What?
Tuesday, Sept. 9,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "Historical background on Global Climate Change." Lecture by Elizabeth Kolbert, columnist for the New Yorker.
Tuesday, Sept. 16,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium Six Degrees Could Change the World (2007). National Geographic film followed by a panel discussion with local scholars.
Tuesday, Sept. 23,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "Evidence of Global Climate Change." Lecture by Penn State Professor Michael Mann.
Tuesday, Sept. 30,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium The Great Warming (2006). Film directed by Michael Taylor, followed by a panel discussion.
Tuesday, Oct. 7,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "The Americas Before Columbus." Lecture by Charles Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.
Tuesday, Oct. 21,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change." Lecture by Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Science.
Tuesday, Oct. 28,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium Strange Days on Planet Earth (2005). PBS film.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 7.30 pm Chafee Auditorium "Advocating for the Environment." Lecture by Mary D. Nichols, chairperson of the California Air Resources Board.
Tuesday, Nov. 18,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "Human Effects on the Ocean and its Ecosystem." Lecture by Jeremy Jackson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Tuesday, Dec. 9,
7.30 pm
Chafee Auditorium "It's a Shore Thing: Coastal Cabaret." Lyrics by Judith Swift and Charles Cofone. Music by Charles Cofone. Directed by Judith Swift.