Why Antarctica - A Continent of Science & Diplomacy

Oct 21-22, 2011, 4:00 pm-1:00 am EDT
Clarence Cook Little Building
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. This talk will put science done in, from, and about Antarctica over the last century into a global context showing its intrinsic importance to humankind using several key case studies drawn from such diverse fields as geosciences, biological sciences and atmospheric and space sciences.
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Erb Speaker Series: The Irrationality of Sustainability

Oct 30, 2011, 11:00 am-12:30 pm EDT
Ross School of Business - 6th Floor Colloquium Room
Are decisions that attempt to balance people, planet and profits made rationally? Can they be? Our economic models are built on the ideal that people are maximizers of utility and that we have access to all the information and thus can make necessary choices on a rational basis. Rationality is everything, or is it?How can the decision making of individuals and organizations be influenced and improved?
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Health Policy Research Seminar Series

Nov 17, 2011, 3:00-4:30 pm EST
School of Public Health Building I
Free and open to the public. Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, will present a talk for the Health Policy Research Seminar Series.
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Erb Speaker Series: The Irrationality of Sustainability

Oct 30, 2011, 11:00 am-12:30 pm EDT
Ross School of Business
Free and open to the public. Are decisions that attempt to balance people, planet and profits made rationally? Our economic models are built on the ideal that people are maximizers of utility and that we have access to all the information and thus can make necessary choices on a rational basis. Rationality is everything, or is it? How can the decision making of individuals and organizations be influenced and improved? Dan Ariely will be talking about self-control, lack of self-control and how an understanding of human weaknesses can help make the world a better place.
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Women and Work

Nov 7, 2011, 3:00-11:00 pm EST
Lane Hall
Free and open to the public. The panel examines current issues that confront women in the workplace. Consideration of workplace victimization, the integration of gendered and professional identities, and the effect of gender-hostile work environments on attributions of success will be addressed. This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
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SHARP Insights: How Title IX Changed the Game - the cultural impact of Title IX

Dec 2, 2011, 12:00-1:30 pm EST
Central Campus Recreation Building (CCRB)
Free and open to the public. Title IX is widely known and has become synonymous in many Americans' minds with gender equity in sport. Yet, like any law, it is limited. Inequities continue inside and outside of sport--inequities that are beyond the direct legal reach of Title IX. Misunderstanding the limits of Title IX has an ironic effect. On the one hand, it can fuel a backlash that blames Title IX for problems associated with some men's sports.
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SHARP Insights: The impact of journalistic norms on the framing of Title IX and women's sports

Mar 15, 2012, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
Free and open to the public. Marie Hardin teaches classes that focus on sports and society at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research concentrates on diversity, ethics and professional practices in mediated sports. Her work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Sociology of Sport Journal, Sex Roles, Newspaper Research Journal, Mass Communication & Society, Journalism, Journal of Sports Management, and The Howard Journal of Communications, among others.
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