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2018 Earth Day Keynote Address

The Department of Philosophy presents Cristina Richie and her presentation on "Green Bioethics: Environmental Sustainability in Health Care"

Inauguration of the MS Program in Environmental Science

Dr. Robert Curry, Liesel Schwarz, and Sr. Mary Elizabeth Clark make up the panel discussing sustainability and environment in Speaker's Corner at the Falvey Memorial Library.

The task of this presentation is to dismantle the software model of the mind and a related view that says that we can survive brain uploading and other forms of radical brain enhancement because our “informational pattern” or “software” survives.

Dr. Traver’s talk is titled “Sustainable Stormwater at Villanova.” He discusses the challenges of storm water sustainability in the built environment, and Villanova’s use of the campus for scholarship, teaching and as an agent for change

The talk is based on the book Einstein’s Dice and Schrodinger’s Cat.

Michael R Zimmerman, MD, PhD, Biology Dept., lectured on the ancient Egyptians' concept of disease and its treatment on Thursday, Feb. 18, 4 p.m., Mendel 102.

The College of Nursing 37th Annual Distinguished Lecture in Nursing features Dr. Rushton. She brings her perspective as an expert in bioethics and palliative care, sharing her knowledge from clinical practice, teaching, research and consultation.

In honor of the 44th annual Earth Day, Villanova University presents a Panel Discussion on Sustainable Agriculture with JoAnn Garbin, David Masur, and Brenda Gotanda.

Dr. Horton outlines his research on sea-level rise and the process of conducting science. The panel discusses how climate change science has been politicized, the role that science plays in society, and public perceptions of climate change and science.

Villanova University's 2015 Outstanding Faculty Research Award recipient Giorgi Japaridze, PhD, professor of computing sciences, discusses his extensive research.

Computing moved from a fringe activity to a central part of academic life in just 50 years. Timesharing, distributed computing, email, national networks, and the web are direct descendants of systems that universities and scientific researchers built.

Our common ancestry with whales, horses, lions, mice, shrews, and other mammals began a long time ago. A meteor may have removed those pesky dinosaurs 65 million years ago and given our ancestors a chance to thrive. Our family has branched out quite a bit since then, although we mammals all still share many similarities. As a result, for example, we hear the world differently than our even older non-mammalian ancestors. Please join us as Dr. Todd Jackman introduces us to our family and our many resemblances. (But do we have to invite the naked mole rats to the family reunion?)

Dr. Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University, and the Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, is the guest speaker at the Physics Honor Society, Sigma Pi Sigma, induction and the Physics Department's 75th Anniversary Celebration. His talk is entitled "Big Bang or Big Bounce" - Contrasting two views of the origin and evolution of the universe, and how data from the Planck satellite and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN may help to resolve which is correct.

How did gravity sculpt enormous clouds of hydrogen into dense balls that ignited and lit up a dark sky with twinkling stars within galaxies like our own Milky Way? Why are many galaxies racing away from each other, some almost at the speed of light? How do stars transform elements like hydrogen into the carbon from which you, and I, and all life on earth are made? How did a supernova's violent death bring about the birth of our sun and the earth just over 4.5 billion years ago. Dr. Edward Guinan of the Department of Astronomy guides us through the vast reaches of space and time - and explains how we are all made of stardust.

"Dr. Philip Maurone, Chair of the Department of Physics, begins the year-long lecture series "Beginnings" with a presentation about how you, the earth, the Sun, and 100 billion galaxies each with 100 billion stars began 13.82 billion years ago as a single infinitely hot and dense point smaller than a pin head. The series presents the world's greatest detective story; many scientists have pieced together evidence for a narrative about the origins of the universe, stars, galaxies, our solar system, earth, life, evolution, mammals, humanity, and political culture over a course of 13.82 billion years. The series concludes with our best theological understandings of genesis."