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May 15, 2024
Film Screening and Reception for AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic
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May 15, 2024
Campus location | Magnuson Health Sciences Center T (HST) |
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Campus room | Health Sciences Library, 2nd floor |
Accessibility Contact | ahamman@uw.edu |
Event Types | Lectures/Seminars, Screenings, Special Events |
Event sponsors | Health Sciences Library; National Library of Medicine |
Join us for a special film screening and reception in partnership with the traveling National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibit: AIDS, Posters & Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic. Our special guest speakers, Karen Hartfield and Frank Chaffee will discuss their work with HIV/AIDS in both UW and the surrounding communities in Washington state. Following their presentations, we will screen Target Zero: Preventing HIV Transmission, a documentary series that shows the challenges and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection.
Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, May 13. About the exhibit: The posters featured in this traveling National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibit were created by "communities bonded together by illness and a desire to make change". These posters provide a gateway to AIDS history that illustrate how, in the face of illness, neglect, and the unknown, people came together to connect, create, and save one another's lives.
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Link | www.eventbrite.com… |
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UW Psychology Edwards Colloquium with Edmund Lalor, Ph.D., University of Rochester
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May 15, 2024
Campus location | Kincaid Hall (KIN) |
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Online Meeting Link | washington.zoom.us… |
Campus room | Kincaid 102/108 |
Accessibility Contact | psylectures@uw.edu |
Event Types | Lectures/Seminars |
Event sponsors | Department of Psychology |
Target Audience | Faculty, students, staff |
Description |
This is a hybrid event - in person and livestreamed on Zoom. Modeling Speech-To-Language Transformations in the Human Brain Edmund Lalor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester To transform speech into words, the human brain must accommodate variability across utterances in intonation, speech rate, volume, accents and so on. A promising approach to explaining this process has been to model electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings of brain responses to speech. In this talk, I will describe our use of this approach over the past decade to understand how the human brain transforms speech to language and how this transformation is affected by attention and visual input. This lecture made possible in part by a generous endowment from Professor Allen L. Edwards. Faculty host: Joe Sisneros, sisneros@uw.edu Q&A and light refreshments to follow the lecture.
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UW Psychology Edwards Colloquium with Edmund Lalor, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Zoë Schlanger in Conversation With Ferris Jabr
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May 15, 2024
Sponsored by Powell's City of Books in Portland
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It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters (Harper) is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
Please note: NSWA provides these event details as a courtesy to science-related organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest. Please confirm event details with the sponsoring organization before attending.