Alternative Transportation and the Claremont Senior Bike Group – Speaker: Tom Shelley, CSBG safety officer and senior cyclist Several of our club members are regular bicycle riders. We’ve invited Tom Shelley, safety officer of the Claremont Senior Bike Group (CSBG), to share his insights on the pro and con of cycling. Tom grew up in […]
April 24, 2018 – Tom Shelley Read More »
The Paris Climate Accord: A Progress Assessment– Speaker: Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak, Director of Hixon Center and Associate Professor, Harvey Mudd College Two years after the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, the world has seen several major political developments. This talk will look at the original commitments made by countries vis-à-vis the greenhouse gas reductions needed
April 17, 2018 – Dr. Tanja Rebotnjak Read More »
Campaign Contributions and Wedding Cakes: Understanding the Dramatic Consequences of the Supreme Court’s Free Speech Decisions – Speaker: Dr. Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College From our earliest years as a country, politics and media in America have been conditioned by Supreme Court decisions. Our program will discuss impacts of the free-speech decisions
April 20, 2018 – Dr. Amanda Hollis-Brusky Read More »
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
April 3, 2018 – Prof. Andrew Vosko Read More »
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
March 27, 2018 – Dr. Edwin Krupp Read More »
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,
March 20, 2018 – Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos Read More »
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
March 13, 2018 – Dr. Liam Corley Read More »
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
March 6, 2018 – Dr. Robert R. Gaines Read More »
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
February 27, 2018 – Vatche Sahakian Read More »
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
February 20, 2018 – Lisa Levy Buch Read More »