http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/21251 Events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Honors Program. Search the Channel search http://smartech.gatech.edu/simple-search http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/27681 Title: How to Explain the Universe in Two Minutes or Less <br/> <br/>Authors: Palca, Joe <br/> <br/>Abstract: Since joining NPR in 1992, Joe Palca has covered everything from biomedical research to astronomy. He began his journalism career in television in 1982, working as a health producer for the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC, after receiving a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he worked on human sleep physiology. He has won numerous awards, including the National Academies Communications Award, the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize, and the 2008 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. Recently he prepared a series of reports on the work of Charles Darwin in honor of the great naturalist’s bicentenary. <br/> <br/>Description: Presented on March 11, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm in the College of Management, LeCraw Auditorium.; The Georgia Tech Honors Program and College of Sciences welcomed Joe Palca, a journalist for National Public Radio, who presented a talk on "How to Explain the Universe in Two Minutes or Less" as part of its Karlovitz Lecture Series. http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/25444 Title: The Future of Science is Art: Or What We Can Learn About the Brain from a 19th-Century French Chef and Kanye West <br/> <br/>Authors: Lehrer, Jonah <br/> <br/>Abstract: Jonah Lehrer presented a talk on "The Future of Science is Art: Or What We Can Learn About the Brain from a 19th-Century French Chef and Kanye West." Lehrer is editor-at-large for Seed magazine and author of "Proust Was A Neuroscientist." A 2003 graduate of Columbia University and a Rhodes Scholar, Lehrer has worked in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel and studied with Hermione Lee at Oxford. He has coauthored a peer-reviewed paper in Genetics and worked as a line cook at Melisse and at Le Cirque 2000, and as a prep cook at Le Bernardin. <br/> <br/>Description: Presented on October 1, 2008, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM at the LeCraw Auditorium, College of Management. http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/21250 Title: The Crossroads of Science and the Arts <br/> <br/>Authors: Lightman, Alan <br/> <br/>Abstract: Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities at MIT, is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. Lightman received his PhD in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1974. In his scientific work, Lightman has made fundamental contributions to the theory of astrophysical processes under conditions of extreme temperatures and densities. In particular, his research has focused on relativistic gravitation theory, the structure and behavior of accretion disks, stellar dynamics, radiative processes, and relativistic plasmas. His research articles have appeared in The Physical Review, The Astrophysical Journal, Reviews of Modern Physics, Nature, and other journals of physics and astrophysics. For his contributions to physics, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science the same year. In 1990, he chaired the science panel of the National Academy of Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee for the 1990s. He is a past chair of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society. In 1981, Lightman began publishing essays about science, the human side of science, and the "mind of science," beginning with Smithsonian Magazine and moving to Science 82, The New Yorker, and other magazines. Since that time, Lightman's essays, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Daedalus, Discover, Exploratorium, Granta, Harper's, Harvard Magazine, Inc Technololgy, Nature, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Story, Technology Review, and World Monitor. His novel Einstein's Dreams was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. In 1989, Lightman was appointed professor of science and writing, and senior lecturer in physics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1991 to 1997, he headed the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. <br/> <br/>Description: Presented on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm in room 100 of the Management Building on the Georgia Tech campus; Part of the Karlovitz lecture series, sponsored by the Georgia Tech Honors Program and the College of Sciences http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/20538 Title: Local Food: Sustainability is Participation <br/> <br/>Authors: Katz, Sandor Ellix <br/> <br/>Abstract: Eating local is more than a consumer experience. It means rebuilding a whole web of relations and demands not only interactions with farmers, but more of us becoming food producers directly involved with the sources of our food: plants, seeds, animals, microbes, earth. Get inspired to reclaim food, power, and dignity. Sandor Ellix Katz is a fermentation revivalist, activist, and author, who travels widely teaching and sharing fermentation skills. His passion for fermentation developed out of his overlapping interests in food, nutrition, and gardening. <br/> <br/>Description: Part of the Georgia Tech Sustainable Food Project, sponsored by the Georgia Tech Honors Program, The School of Literature, Communication & Culture, and Students Organizing for Sustainability.; Presented on March 3rd, 2008 11am to 12 pm at the Georgia Tech Library East Commons Performance Space