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Charles Darwin meets Computer Science: How Computation has Led to Fundamental Discoveries in Evolution
Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that he could imagine how flowers and bees might evolve in tandem to adapt to one another. In this talk, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Founding Chair of the Integrated Sciences Depar…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/charles-darwin-meets-computer-science-how-computation-has-led-fundamental-discoveries-0After Roe: What Happens When You Lose a Constitutional Right
The reversal of Roe v. Wade is about much more than reproductive rights – so argues Mary Ziegler, a professor of law at U.C. Davis and an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conser…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/after-roe-what-happens-when-you-lose-constitutional-rightWhat "It" Is: Does Creative Activity Have a Biological Function?
Why do people wish they could write, sing, dance, and draw, long after they’ve given up on these things? Does creative activity have a biological function? Is there something common to everything we call the arts? What…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-it-does-creative-activity-have-biological-functionThe Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, Amanda Little, environmental journalist and professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, investigates how we will feed huma…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fate-food-what-well-eat-bigger-hotter-smarter-worldCovering January 6: Journalists’ Reflection
On January 6th, 2021, insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol building as citizens across the country followed the unfolding events on television, social media, and other news sources. Information about what happened…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/covering-january-6-journalists-reflectionUpheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Based on his 2019 book Upheaval, Jared Diamond reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change. In an exhaustive comparative study, he shows how seven countries have survived upheavals in the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/upheaval-turning-points-nations-crisisFintech: Fables, Fallacies, and Futures
Fintech has disrupted industries globally, driving trillion-dollar value creation and destruction. Having been on the frontiers of fintech growth over the last two decades working on a PayPal competitor and Google Walle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fintech-fables-fallacies-and-futuresSouth to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/south-america-journey-below-mason-dixon-understand-soul-nationWomen in Economics
Join Heather Antecol, Dean of the Faculty and Boswell Professor of Economics at CMC, and three Lowe Institute alumnae (Nicole Appleton ’14, Sarah Baker '17, and Yao Li ’20) as they recount how they turned their post-gra…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/women-economicsThe Promise and Perils of Polling
In the last two decades survey methodology has changed a great deal. While new tools of social science research have become available, survey researchers also face new challenges. Headed into the 2022 and 2024 election…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/promise-and-perils-polling