This is Joan Tovsen's presentation for her event, Calendars and Time in the Eyes of Science and History. Joan Tovsen received a BA Public Communications with a minor in Geology at UAA and has done graduate work in environmental northern studies at UAF. Her business ventures include owning of a map store, working in the travel industry, in education, and as a tutor with therapeutic essential oils. Joan's foundation in scientific inquiry enables her to explore Biblical research in...

The value of family and historic photographs as art collections and community reflections are themes addressed by guest speakers Samantha Hill and Carolyn Kozak. Dr. Gabrielle Barnett (Community Outreach, Anchorage Museum) introduces the event and Carolyn Kozak discusses photo observations before Samatha Hill's presentation featuring her and other social practice artists work and intervention is highlighted. (4:53) Samantha Hill is Rasmuson Artist in Residence at the Anchorage Museum. ...

Dr. Chris Kavelin shares stories about how the world’s most important modern medicines arose in the genius of Indigenous cultural wisdom. Dr. Chris Kavelin received his Ph.D in Law from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His focus is the protection of indigenous medical knowledge and the spiritual aspects of health and medicine. This event is sponsored with Alaskan Plants as Food and Medicine Symposium 2015, ANTHC CHS Wellness Division, UAA College of Health, UAA Dept. of Health...

Recent decades have seen the exciting convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada.  Drawing on interviews with organizers across North America, this event will explore the meaning of “another politics”. Chris Dixon, originally from Anchorage, is a longtime community organizer, writer, and educator with a PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the advisory board...

This presentation can accompany the audio podcast of the event Chris Dixon presents Another Politics, also posted in iTunes. Recent decades have seen the exciting convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada.  Drawing on interviews with organizers across North America, this event will explore the meaning of “another politics”. Chris Dixon, originally from Anchorage, is a longtime community organizer, writer, and educator with a PhD from the...

Regina H. Macedo discusses her research concerning avian sexual selections, cooperative breeding and survival adaptation in the neo-tropics.  Communal breeding in tropical guira cuckoos and their social system will be highlighted. “ As neo-tropical regions are destroyed at an alarming rate, with an estimated 140 species of rainforest plants and animals going extinct every day, it is important to bring neo-tropical research to the fore now” Dr. Regina H. Macedo is on faculty at Department of...

Dr. Suzanne Lorenz teaches in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at UAA. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in Indiana where she completed her thesis on mapping dark matter with weak gravitational lensing and continued on as a visiting scholar with the VERITAS Collaboration (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) based on the Whipple Telescope. Her talk includes an understanding of the formation of the universe and the role of dark matter, gravitational...

This is the PowerPoint that can accompany the podcast of Dr. Suzanne Lorenz' discussion about her research on mapping dark matter. Dr. Suzanne Lorenz teaches in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at UAA. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University in Indiana where she completed her thesis on mapping dark matter with weak gravitational lensing and continued on as a visiting scholar with the VERITAS Collaboration (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) based on the...

In 1998, Bill Oefelein was selected to join NASA's Astronaut Corps. He served as pilot for the STS-116 mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery from December 9 to 22, 2006. The mission for the seven-member crew involved the further construction of the International Space Station, 4 space walks, the delivery of a new crew member and two tons of equipment and supplies. After retiring in 2008, Bill returned to Alaska and started Adventure Write with his wife Colleen Shipmen. This is an...

David Krakauer is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and co-director of the Center for Complex Systems and Collective Computation at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He sums up his research by saying, "The big question that many are asking is what will evolutionary theory look like once it has become integrated with the sciences of adaptive information (information theory and computation), and of course, what will these sciences then look like?" He has worked...

Mark Bedau is internationally recognized as a leader in the development of socially and ethically responsible practices for creating life-like systems. He has been professor of philosophy and humanities at Reed College since 1991 and Editor-in-Chief of the Artificial Life journal since 2000. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. (Note: in the beginning of his talk he refers to his presentation whichmay be difficult to follow. However, the event is...

Guest speaker Yvette Johnson graduated from Northern Arizona University where she started The Booker Wright Project. In it, she researches the complicated life her grandfather lived in Greenwood, Miss., where he was a waiter in a "whites only" steakhouse as well as owner of a restaurant on the "black" side of town. Yvette Johnson is co-producer of "Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" and the author of "Searching for Booker Wright." This event is sponsored with the UAA Sociology Department.

Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae." At this very special event, Brian Schmidt will discuss his connections to Alaska, (being a graduate of Bartlett High School, Anchorage) why education is important and his fascinating research in astronomy. His most recent project is mapping the...

Dr. Christopher Clark is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He is an expert on the science of sound and the effects of noise on whales. What we can learn from whales about sound transference and its application to ocean movements, the arctic ecosystem, arctic navigation and resource extraction is explored. This event is sponsored with Alaska's Big Village Network.