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.
February 5
Aviation Anatomy: The Interworking of US Airways Phoenix Hub
Join guest Matt Eggers, Director Phoenix Tower Operations of US Airways, as he delves into the interworking of US Airways Phoenix Hub Operations, from flight schedule creation to a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to safely transport a customer from point A to B.
GUEST:
Matt Eggers, MPA
Director, Phoenix Tower/Operations
US Airways
Planetarium: Stars of the Pharaohs
March 5
Plant Conservation in the Desert Southwest: What Can Genetics Tell Us?
Explore insights that genetic data can provide in our quest to learn more about rare plants and form more effective conservation strategies. Shannon will discuss specific examples from her own research on "Brittlebush" (Encelia farinosa) and "Desert Star Phlox" (Phlox amabilis).
GUEST:
Shannon Fehlberg, Ph.D.
Conservation Biologist
Desert Botanical Gardens
IMAX: Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa
April 2
Return to the Moon
Delve into the historic Apollo mission as Professor Mark Robinson, ASU School of Earth & Space Exploration, share details from the NASA-funded project at ASU to scan thousands of photographs from the historic mission and convert them into digital images. The historical photos, couples with the new ones, will help NASA pick safe landing sites for future missions. Robinson will answer questions about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), for which he is the principle investigator.
GUEST:
Mark Robinson
Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration
Arizona State University
IMAX: Grand Tour of the Planet, sponsored by APS.
may 7
Antibiotic Resistance: What Happens When the Drugs Can't Kill the Bugs?
The development of antimicrobials represent one of the most significant medical successes of the 20th century. Although antibiotics have saved millions of lives, infectious bacteria have evolved to protect themselves and resist killing, thus making some infections difficult or impossible to treat. This lecture will center around Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as an example to discuss bacterial antibiotic resistance, why the problem exists and what happens when infections caused by resistant bacteria fail to respond to our most effective and commonly used antibiotics.
GUEST:
Shelley Haydel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Life Science and the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology
The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
IMAX: Cosmic Coasters
Adults' Night Out is sponsored by:
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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.
Feb. 19, 2010
The End of the Earth: If Not in 2010, Then When?
While it is unlikely the world will end in 2012 due to a cosmic accidnet, it won't be around forever. With the help of biogeochemist, Ariel Anbar, and anthropologist, Michael Smith, we explore the Earth's future and cultural views of creation and destruction.
GUESTS:
Dr. Ariel Anbar
Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration and Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Dr. Michael E. Smith
Professor of Anthropology, School of Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Mar. 19, 2010
Facts or Hype: What is the Media Telling Us About Nano and Other New Technologies?
From lipstick to computer chips, nanotechnology is already many of the things we buy. It gets worked into the plots of Hollywood movies and sci-fi stories. So are we getting the real story about nano? This month, journalists debate how the news media is reporting on the emergence of nanotechnology. Is the press guilty of nano-hype? Do we hear more about risks than benefits? Does it really matter if the public understands science and technology?
GUESTS:
Joe Kullman
Media Relations Officer, Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
Apr. 16, 2010
Upgrading Ourselves: Can Technoloy Make Us Better?
Imagine you could choose to install the latest, new and improved model human brain and body, a version that only recently become available and that renders all previous models obsolete. Would you do it? Join us for a lively debate about the ethical, social, philosophical and religious implications of the attempts to engineer "better humans".
GUESTS:
Dr. Brad Allenby
Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics
Professor of Law
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University
Dr. Hava Samuelson
Professor of History
Director, Center for Jewish Services
Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism
Arizona State University
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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.
feb. 24
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mar. 24
Personalized Medicine
"Personalized Medicine" has become a buzzwork describing everything from disease susceptibility to individualized disease treatment. We will discuss what it means, how it works, what are the promises for the future, and how close are we to making good on those promises? There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.
GUEST:
Dr. Adrienne Scheck
Principal Investigator
Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center
Dr. Philip Stafford
Associate Professor, Computational Biochemistry
ASU Biodesign Institute's Center for Innovations in Medicine
apr 21
"Fact of Fat? The Gut Wrenching Truth About Obesity"
Obesity affects around 4 million Americans. What makes some people skinny and others fat? Local scientists from the Biodesign Institute at ASU, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic in Arizona and The University of Arizona, are looking into the tiny organisms that live in the human gut for some answers. Hear about a comparison from a molecular survey of the human gut inhabitants in obese individuals, normal-weight individuals and patients who had gastric bypass. The results may hold a key to one cause of obesity - and the prospect of future treatment.
GUEST:
Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
ASU Biodesign
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