Lectures

Gustav Kirchhoff as a Physics Student: The Myth, the Reality, and Why the Difference Matters. Kathryn Olesko, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, and Affiliate Faculty Member, Science, Technology, Health, and Society Program, University of Puget Sound.

The past isn’t over: Nongenetic transgenerational effects in ecology and evolution. Katherine Crocker, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Puget Sound.

Paints as a Potential Source of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Exposure. Mitchell Kim-Fu, PhD student, Dept. of Chemistry, Oregon State University.

Population Biology and Cyber Security. Marc Mangel, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of California Santa Cruz.

Summer Research Information Meeting for Students and Faculty with Luc Boisvert, Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Elize Hellam, Experiential Learning Programs and Support, University of Puget Sound.

Associate Professor of African American Studies Renee Simms will deliver the Spring 2023 Daedalus Lecture on Mar. 30 at 5 p.m. in the Murray Board Room. Tickets are $15 per person, payable by cash and check only at the door. Professor Simms' lecture is titled "Fire Under Feet: Creative Writing and the Decolonial Imagination." RSVP by Mar. 22.

Interested in a career in commercial real estate? Join alumnus Brendan Mason as he shares stories and wisdom from his journey in commercial real estate.

Inspired by a real estate career talk during his senior year, Brendan Mason ’06, pursued a career in real estate development that led to his (finally) founding AltaBird Investments in 2021. Brendan will share his journey and thoughts on how to navigate and get a head start to a career in this exciting, challenging, sometimes very lucrative, and always evolving field of commercial real estate.

Professor Schwitzgebel’s research explores connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind, especially the nature of belief, the inaccuracy of our judgments about our stream of conscious experience, and the tenuous relationship between philosophical ethics and actual moral behavior. He is the author of Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic, with Russell T. Hurlburt, MIT Press (2007); Perplexities of Consciousness, MIT Press (2011); and A Theory of Jerks, and Other Philosophical Misadventures, MIT Press (2019).

The discourse on reparations and landback are often talked about side by side but rarely intersect. This talk explores the contradictions and possibilities embedded on Black freedom and Indigenous sovereignty, why it matters, and dreams about the potential of collective resistance.

Join Dr. Melvin Rouse, Associate Professor of Psychology, for a talk entitled: The Social Self, the Biological Self: How Biological Phenotype and Social Behavior Can Inform One Another.