Events
Butterfly Field Trip
On Friday, May 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the public is welcome to visit with KU scientists and see clouds of emerging butterflies at the Fitch Natural History Reservation located just north of the Lawrence Municipal Airport. KU Natural History Museum and Kansas Biological Survey scientists will be available to offer information and guidance to visitors.
Ornithologist Mark Robbins expects to see thousands of Emperor Hackberry butterflies emerging at the property, which is part of the KU Field Station.
For more information, visit the KU Biodiversity Institute newsroom.
Event Details
Date/Time Friday, May 18, 2012 - 11:00am - 1:00pmLocation
Cost Free
Contact
Questions? Call 785.864.4450 or contact us at naturalhistory@ku.edu
Displaying the World: Innovation at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939
Nineteenth and twentieth century world’s fairs were the most important vehicles for debuting advances in modern living. Often universal in scope, these major events brought together ideas and people in displays that exhibited scientific discoveries, agricultural products, machinery, manufactured products, paintings, sculpture and architecture. Fairs encouraged international competition as well as industrial and technical innovation. Using the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition as the centerpiece, Catherine Futter, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will examine innovation and the golden age of world’s fairs from 1851 to 1939. The talk will be held in front of the museum's famed Panorama exhibit, which was originally created for the 1893 Exposition and still displayed today.
Catherine Futter is the curator of Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939, now on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO.
Event Details
Date/Time Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation Dyche Hall/Natural History Museum
Cost Free
Contact
Questions? Call 785.864.4450 or contact us at naturalhistory@ku.edu
The Cognitive Costs of Technology
A Science on Tap EventThe technological boom of the last 25 years has given us gadgets that are useful, attractive and fun. But are they also harmful? New research has begun to show the costs of our “wired” society, and the incompatibility between our brains and our gadgets. For this Science on Tap, Paul Atchley of the KU Department of Psychology will lead a conversation on the limits of human attention, the costs of technology and promising work showing that a return to nature may be good for how we think.
Event Details
Date/Time Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation Free State Brewery
Cost
Contact
Questions? Call 785.864.4450 or contact us at naturalhistory@ku.edu
The Impact of Extreme Weather
A Science on Tap EventOne impact of global climate change is a change in the number and type of extreme weather events within a region. These may include more pronounced drought, more intense rainfall events, more intense heat waves etc. These events may have very different implications depending upon when they occur during the year. For this Science on Tap, Nate Brunsell of the KU Geography department will lead a conversation about the potential ramifications of changing extreme weather patterns on natural, agricultural, and urban environments.
Event Details
Date/Time Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pmLocation Free State Brewery
Cost
Contact
Questions? Call 785.864.4450 or contact us at naturalhistory@ku.edu
