Dr. Donald Scavia While the effects of climate change will vary across different ecosystems and sectors, the Great Lakes region is expected to experience large changes in climate during the 21st century. Hear about the impacts of these changes on Great Lakes ecosystems and livelihoods and discuss what the region needs to do to adapt to those changes. Includes exhibition viewing.

You can qualify to borrow a set of physical science hands-on activities from Fermilab! Receive free delivery, pickup, and loan of a set of five exhibits that demonstrate the concepts of momentum and acceleration. Send a minimum of two representatives from your organization for facilitator training. For parents of children in grades K-5.

Download a registration form at our website to mail or fax to us.

Recycled mixed-media artist and creative; Bohdan Gernaga’s solo exhibition début opens for the Science in Art Exhibit in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science at the University of Chicago. Bohdan’s consistent interest & fascination with science has inspired one of his highly colorful & imaginative series “color blocks” (mixed media on recycled & reclaimed materials); viewing many theories & suppositions thru strictly an artists eye, emphasized by an underlying emotional dimension of color geometries.

Robert S. Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor. Dr. Langer has written over 1,100 articles. He also has approximately 760 issued and pending patents worldwide. Dr. Langer’s patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 220 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. He is the most cited engineer in history.

Dr. Langer is one of the world’s most prolific, influential, and acclaimed social innovators of our time, and the full force of his impact will continue to affect the globe for generations to come. He has been referred to as “a medical pioneer in the guise of an engineer,” creating new science by revolutionizing the delivery of drugs and the engineering of human tissue. â€" Social Innovation Conversations

Host: Richard F. Jordan
For any questions/inquiries please contact:
The University of Chicago Chemistry Department
(773)702-7250

Dr. David Archer, University of Chicago

When fossil fuel CO2 is released to the atmosphere, it enters the cacophony of the global carbon cycle. Over the centuries the extra CO2 will spread out between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the land surface. After this equilibration is complete, there will still be a fraction of the new CO2 that remains in the atmosphere. This excess CO2 awaits slow chemical reactions with dissolving rocks on land, called weathering reactions, to carry the carbon back into the solid earth in the form of CaCO3. The "lifetime" of fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere is a complicated question because there are multiple processes operating, but in general the CO2 concentration will be higher than natural for hundreds of thousands of years. Some components of the climate system, such as the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, will respond most strongly to the "long tail" of the fossil fuel CO2, ultimately raising sea level by 10's of meters, something like 100 times more than the IPCC forecast for the year 2100.

The Fermilab Lecture Series presents by Dr. David Archer of the University of Chicago (http://bit.ly/FermiArch) Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. When fossil fuel CO2 is released to the atmosphere, it enters the cacophony of the global carbon cycle. Over the centuries the extra CO2 will spread out between the atmosphere, the ocean, and the land surface. After this equilibration is complete, there will still be a fraction of the new CO2 that remains in the atmosphere. This excess CO2 awaits slow chemical reactions with dissolving rocks on land, called weathering reactions, to carry the carbon back into the solid earth in the form of CaCO3. The “lifetime” of fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere is a complicated question because there are multiple processes operating, but in general the CO2 concentration will be higher than natural for hundreds of thousands of years. Some components of the climate system, such as the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, will respond most strongly to the “long tail” of the fossil fuel CO2, ultimately raising sea level by 10’s of meters, something like 100 times more than the IPCC forecast for the year 2100. David Archer is a professor publishing on Earth’s carbon cycle and its interaction with global climate. Dr. Archer has written a series of outreach books on climate change, including Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, a text for non-science major undergraduates; The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate; and The Global Carbon Cycle, a primer in climate science. He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global biogeochemical cycles, and is regular contributor to the climate science blog site realclimate.org.

You and Curious George learn about the wind. What can the wind move? See how wind makes different things move while you investigate bubbles, wind socks and pinwheels. Listen to the wind. What makes that sound? For students in grades K-1.

Download a registration form at our website to mail or fax to us.

The Museum of Science and Industry's Black Creativity lecture series invites you to join an informative discussion about the future of energy.

Securing a sustainable, efficient and cost-effective energy supply to meet global demand is one of the most critical issues of our time. A panel of leading academic, scientific, corporate and political experts will discuss the historical, current and future challenges in energy, share recent innovations, and highlight growing opportunities in energy fields. Join the discussion with:

Hazel O'Leary, President of Fisk University and former United States Secretary of Energy

Bobby L. Rush, United States Congressman serving 1st District of Illniois

Frank Stewart, President and COO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy

Herman White, Ph.D., Particle Physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

This FREE panel discussion will be moderated by Salim Muwakkil from WVON Radio

6:00-7:30pm Panel Discussion
7:30-8:00pm Reception

This Eighth Annual CBC Symposium will bring together speakers who are at the forefront of research related to protein folding, aging and neurodegenerative diseases:

Scott T. Brady, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD (University of California, San Francisco)
Randal J. Kaufman, PhD (University of Michigan Medical School)
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Judith Frydman, PhD, (Stanford University)
Richard I. Morimoto, PhD (Northwestern University)

Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD from The University of Chicago will give introductory remarks. The day will also include a poster session and a closing reception.

Registration deadline: October 22, 2010.
Poster submission deadline: noon, October 8, 2010.

For registration details, program, information about abstract submission please visit the CBC website at: http://chicagobiomedicalconsortium.org/education/symposia.php#8th

The mission of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) is to stimulate collaboration among scientists at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago that will transform research at the frontiers of biomedicine.