Lucy Lynch
Address: 975 Vanderbilt, Claremont, CA 91711 Phone number: 626-2700 E-mail: lucyllynch@me.com When did you join the club? 2012 Work experience: social work College(s): Hunter College Volunteer Work: Hobbies and interests:
April 3, 2018 – Prof. Andrew Vosko
Adolescent Sleep and Community Impact – Speaker: Dr. Andrew Vosko, Director of Transdisciplinary Studies, Claremont Graduate University As research has uncovered more about specific sleep needs across people’s lifespans, there has been a movement to address healthy sleep practices in school-aged youth. Much evidence has surfaced that high school students get less sleep than is
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March 2018 Program Schedule
University Club programs are open to the public and are held Tuesdays in the Padua Room of the Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Road, Claremont, Cali fornia. Meetings start at 11:30 AM. The $20 meeting fee includes a buffet lunch. Membership applications are available at each meeting. Map to Hughes Community Center March Program Chair:
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March 27, 2018 – Dr. Edwin Krupp
Devoured by Darkness – Speaker: Dr. Edwin C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory Last August’s All-American Transcontinental Total Solar Eclipse crossed the entire country and confirmed the obvious. Total solar eclipses are now monumental mass entertainment and merchandising opportunities that command world attention. In the past, however, an eclipse was the last thing people
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March 20, 2018 – Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos
Pan-Hellenic Games of Ancient Greece – Speaker: Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos The Olympic games were the oldest pan-Hellenic athletic and religious celebration among the Greeks. Similar festivals took place in Delphi (Pythian games), the Isthmus of Corinth (Isthmian games), Nemea in Argolis, Peloponnesos (Nemean games), Athens (Panathenaian games) and Dodona, Epirus. However, the festivities in Olympia,
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March 13, 2018 – Dr. Liam Corley
Full STE-A-M Ahead: Advancing the Arts and Humanities at the U.S. Naval Academy – Speaker: Dr. William C. Corley, Assoc. Professor of English, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Corley’s presentation is about his experience teaching literature at the Naval Academy from 2013 to 2016. His focus will demonstrate the ways in which literature facilitates
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March 6, 2018 – Dr. Robert R. Gaines
From the Ooze – Speaker: Dr. Robert R. Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, Pomona College In what has been hailed as the world’s most important fossil discovery in decades, Robert Gaines was a member of the team that discovered a stunning new Burgess Shale fossil site in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
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February 27, 2018 – Vatche Sahakian
Are Space and Time Only Illusions – Speaker: Vatche Sahakian, Professor of Physics, Harvey Mudd College In recent years, a group of overworked and underpaid theoretical physicists has posited the possibility that our perception of space and time is just that, only a perception. The suggestion is that gravitation and spacetime are not fundamental, but
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February 20, 2018 – Lisa Levy Buch
Coming Soon: The Gold Line in Claremont – Speaker: Lisa Levy Buch, Chief Communications Officer, Gold Line Construction Authority Come learn about the latest plans for the third segment of the Metro Gold Line as it extends from Glendora to Claremont and beyond, and what to expect as it moves to construction. How will Claremont
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