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Speaker Series Discerning the Truth with Marie Lu (9th-12th Grade) Explore the intricate world of Legend with Marie Lu as she encourages readers to look beyond the surface and reveal hidden secrets. Explore the depths of deceit, battle for power, and the lengths characters will go to unmask the Truth. Legend is a dystopian novel where two unlikely characters, June... Thursday, July 17, 2025, 4:00 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Crafting Your Search Strategy: A Workshop for Systematic and Scoping Review Writers in the Social Sciences Are you a social science graduate student or faculty member that is embarking on a systematic or scoping review project? Are you wondering how to begin writing your search strategy? This workshop is for you! Participants will engage with different search techniques, databases, and tools that will al... Monday, July 21, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM - Online
Speaker Series Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade) This event will be 45 minutes in length. You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As ... Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 4:00 - 4:45 PM - Online
Workshop Systematic or Scoping Review Methods for Dissertations Are you a graduate student who is using systematic, scoping, or other evidence synthesis methods in your dissertation or thesis? This workshop is for you! We will discuss the pros and cons of using these methods in a dissertations, the modifications of the method for individual research, and break d... Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 5:30 - 7:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series On the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains with Pria Anand You’re invited to a fascinating conversation with neurologist and author Pria Anand to chat about her new book The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains (forthcoming June 10, 2025). The Mind Electric speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about our brains, and the... Thursday, July 31, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series The Stories, Science, and History of Birds with Smithsonian Biologist Jay Falk Delve into the fascinating world of birds through astonishing photography and clear explanations in this absorbing global guide, The Bird Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Birds. Birds are dinosaurs with a history going back millions of years. Our fascination with them runs deep in history,... Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series Returning to Romance Through Food and Flirty Fun in Fiction with Casey McQuiston Bring an appetite for sizzling drama as we discuss New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, The Pairing. When two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour, they challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each oth... Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 7:00 - 8:00 PM - Online
Speaker Series How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos with Organizational Psychologist Dr. Tasha Eurich Learn how to master the daily grind and become shatterproof in a tumultuous world with key insights by Dr. Tasha Eurich as she talks about her newest book, Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And why resilience alone isn’t enough). Are you working too much but feel like it’s n... Thursday, August 28, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM - Online
Workshop R for Data Analysis: A tidyverse Approach This session introduces the R statistical software environment, basic methods of data analysis, and the "tidyverse." While R is much more than the tidyverse, the development of the tidyverse packages, led by RStudio, has provided a powerful and connected toolkit to get started using R. Note that gra... Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online
Workshop Data Analysis 2 (statistical tests, regression, sampling, bootstrap, and more + comparison with Python) This workshop reviews statistical tests, regression, sampling and bootstrap methods, and more. The focus here is on implementing statistics using R, with a comparison to Python techniques for accomplishing similar tasks. Part of the Data Topics series of workshops. Workshop conducted via Zoom. Regis... Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Online