Join leading researchers, artists, and scholars at the 推荐杏吧原创 at Lake Tahoe for The Tahoe Series. This collection of events, performances, lectures, and seminars welcomes the community to the University's Wayne L. Prim Campus in Incline Village to be enlightened and inspired.
The Tahoe Series: Faculty Showcase features professors across disciplines presenting as experts on new topics in their fields of study.
Canceled due to the Davis Fire. To be rescheduled at a later date.
Join us for an evening with Michael Branch, Foundation Professor of English Emeritus at the 推荐杏吧原创. Mike Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert.
His work includes ten published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated (Island Press). He has authored more than 300 essays, articles, and reviews. He has also given more than 400 invited lectures, readings, and workshops. He is the recipient of Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, the Western Literature Association Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing, the Willa Pilla Award for Humor Writing, and his books have been finalists for the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Creative Book Award, and the Mountain West Center Evans-Handcart Award.
On November 1 he will be inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame.
Thursday, October 17 from 6-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Mars, the next rock out from the sun, has much in common with other terrestrial planets yet hosts many unique and unusual phenomena. It gets cold enough in winter that approximately 1/3 of the atmosphere, which is composed of 96% CO2 gas, will condense directly onto the ground as ice. In the spring, as temperatures warm and that ice sublimes back into the atmosphere, we see unusual geyser-like plumes venting from one special location in the south. Additionally, the perennial south polar cap sports a layer of solid CO2 ice that is tens of meters thick and has unusual erosional patterns. Wendy will describe these phenomena with cool pictures from the latest spacecraft in orbit at Mars.
Wendy Calvin is a planetary scientist who studies the surfaces of solid bodies in our solar system. She’s been a team member on many instruments and missions to study asteroids, Jupiter’s moons, Earth, and especially Mars. She has a particular interest in martian ices and polar processes.
Thursday, November 7 at 6 p.m.
Vladimir Pravosudov is a Foundation Professor and a Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Research Professor in Science at the 推荐杏吧原创. Dr Pravosudov received his M.S. degree in Zoology at the University of Leningrad in Russia in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Zoology at the Ohio State University in 1997. Dr. Pravosudov is a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a fellow of the American Ornithological Society.
Dr. Pravosudov’s research investigates spatial cognition associated with food caching behavior in chickadees which rely on thousands of food caches scattered throughout their home ranges to survive winter and have specialized spatial cognition needed to recover these caches.
Lake Tahoe: A Rephotographic History with Peter Goin
The World Doesn't Stop at the Skin: Figure, Landscape, Art, and Ecosystem with Chris Lanier
June Saraceno, Author and Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program
Legacy of聽James聽E.聽Church鈥檚 snow science research preserved with Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Reyes
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Meeting the Tides of Life Through the Practice of Poetry
Monster Fish with Zeb Hogan