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Plastics: Challenges and Potential

From plastics circularity in healthcare to changing modes of recycling, the 2023 T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation revealed new perspectives on plastics.
Evidence of Presence: Using eDNA to Better Understand Aquatic Biodiversity

Learn how genetics-based tools can help expand our knowledge of aquatic insect communities.
MXenes and the Era of 2D Materials by Design

Yury Gogotsi discusses the multitude of applications offered by MXenes, the fastest growing family of nanomaterials.
AI vs. Superbugs: Artificial Intelligence and the Search for New Antibiotics

César de la Fuente and Michael Mahan delve into AI-assisted antibiotic drug development.
CANCELED: Origin Materials: Paving the Way Towards a Carbon Negative Future

This event has been canceled.
Sweet Revenge on Cancer

Nobel laureate and Stanford professor Carolyn Bertozzi presents the 2023 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture.
Disease, Death, and Denial: How Historical Epidemiologists Uncover Hidden Epidemics of the Past

Learn how historians and social scientists reconstruct lethal events forgotten by the general public.
Bacteriophage and Us: Harnessing the Power of the Puppet Master

Explore the history of bacteriophages and what is being done to harness their power for treating challenging diseases.
Preempting Fate: Technology, Gaming, and Climate Change

Panelists will discuss how we understand climate change and imagine a way forward.
Science and Survival: Translating and Curating the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

Jocelyn McDaniel presents the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Günther Finke Memorial Lecture.
Samuel George Morton and the Afterlife of Scientific Racism in Philadelphia

Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Yellow Fever at the Lazaretto

Historians David Barnes and Rana Hogarth led an exploration of the disease’s legacy, followed by a guided tour of America’s first quarantine station.
Francis Galton, Eugenics, and Why We Need New Science Stories

Watch former UCL curator Subhadra Das discuss the work of the little-known Victorian scientist who coined the term ‘eugenics.’
Why the History of Medicine Matters in Birthing Justice

Watch a recording of medical historian Deirdre Cooper Owens discuss her work at the intersection of science, race, and gender.
Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections

Historians and social scientists of science, technology, and medicine discuss their collaborative work to develop and deploy “embedded connections” in the humanities and STEM fields.
Charming Disaster: Super Natural History

This live goth-folk concert explores the strange and otherworldly side of science.
A Conversation with ‘Mill Town’ Author Kerri Arsenault

Join us for a Fellow in Focus lecture on the joy, challenge, and urgency of writing about our environments.
Catastrophic Knowledge: Early Modern Disaster Science

Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.
Losing the Forest for the Seas: How Shipbuilding and Agriculture Changed Early American Port Cities

Learn how wooden ships were recycled to build 18th- and 19th-century ports.
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