Economic Dimensions of Gender Inequality
06/11/2015 @ 7:00 pm – Open to General Public Since March of 2011 Augusto López-Claros is Director of Global Indicators and Analysis with the World Bank Group. He was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was the editor of the Global Competitiveness Report, the Forum’s flagship publication, as […]
Creativity and Healthy Aging
04/21/2015 @ 4:30 pm – Open to General Public Stratton Lecture on Aging SuccessfullyClick here for flyer.
Recent Global Temperature Trends: What do they tell us about anthropogenic climate change?
04/15/2015 @ 5:00 pm – Observations suggest a hiatus in global surface temperature rise since 1998, whereas most climate models simulate continued warming. What causes this difference? Do climate models respond too sensitively to the increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations such as that of CO2, and thus overestimate climate change systematically? Or has the discrepancy arisen by chance? And what is […]
How Can Young People Take Ownership of Their Future? A Lecture by Dr. James Hansen
04/14/2015 @ 4:00 pm – Dr. James Hansen, formerly Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he directs the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. […]
