Adults’ Night Out
Enjoy the Center's 300 hands-on exhibits, watch an IMAX film and engage your intellect in a thought provoking presentation.
It's social, it's science, and it's all with people your own size!
Explore the Center's exhibit galleries from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Free for everyone. Please leave children at home. Additional evening options include:
A lecture presentation at 7 p.m. (free); and an IMAX film or planetarium presentation at 8:15 p.m. (Regular admission fees apply for film and planetarium presentations.) Additional fees apply for entrance to featured exhibitions.
sEPT. 3: C.S.I….don’t think so! The real story of the Crime Lab!
Do programs like “C.S.I.” and “Law and Order” depict what really happens in a crime lab, or is it just great entertainment? Kim Kobojek, forensic scientist, will shed some light on the more “Hollywood” side of crime lab life, as well as what really goes on in a crime lab and in the work life of the real scientists and crime scene personnel who do the job day-to-day.
GUEST: Kim Kobojek, D-ABC
Forensic Scientist, Forensic Biology Unit
Phx.PD Laboratory Services Bureau
Optional Dorrance Planetarium presentation: Black Holes*
Oct. 1: Balls, Dogs & Robots: The Art of Catching Things
Explore research using head-cams and high-tech motion-capture cameras allows perception scientists to verify the manner in which pursuers couple themselves to their target. Findings with humans, dogs and autonomous robots confirm that fielders solve this seemingly complex problem with just a few remarkably simple control rules, they basically move to keep the image of the target rising continuously along a straight line. The control rules that emerge are generic, nearly universal and can be generalized to a broad range of human, animal and robotic functioning.
GUEST: Dr. Mike McBeath, Arizona State University
Optional Dorrance Planetarium presentation: Cosmic Coasters*
More information coming soon, but save the date!
Nov. 5
NO ADULTS' NIGHT OUT IN Dec.
*Additional Fee Applies.
BACK TO TOP
Science Café
Presented by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Science Cafés are from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and are free to the public.
Science Cafés are informal discussions that bring together members of the community and university scientists to discuss how science and technology can change the future. In a typical café, scientists speak for 15-20 minutes on a topic, with the rest of the time for the public to ask questions and raise concerns. Teachers receive 1 hour of professional development for each cafe attended.
SEPT. 17
Who Are You Calling Neanderthal? Tracing Our Ancient Ancestors
GUESTS:
Dr. Anne Stone
Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Dr. William H. Kimbel
Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment
Director, Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
OCT. 15
A Weak Link: Peak Phosphorus and Our Food Chain
GUEST:
Dr. James Elser
Regents' Professor & Parents Association Professor (Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science)
Associate Dean (Research and Training Initiatives)
Acting Dean School of Life Sciences
NOV. 19
You Eat: American's Relationship with Food
GUESTS:
Dr. Kirstin Hendrickson
Lecturer
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dr. Scott Lefler
Senior Lecturer
Chemistry & Biochemistry
More details coming soon...
BACK TO TOP
biotech talk
The Biotech Talk series was made possible through a five-year Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. This program will give students and the general public a glimpse into the human body, its parts and processes, and new advances in biomedical research and technology.
Biotech Talks are informal dialogues about current topics in biotechnology & medicine. For adults, this series brings together leaders in science and engineering with members of the community to discuss how biotechnology and medicine and changing the present and future. These informal discussions and free to the public and will give guests the opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns related to each session topic.
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Sept. 8
Oct. 13
Nov. 10
No BIOTECH TALK IN DEC.
More details coming soon...
