Events

A conversation with Alexander Marr.

Reaching back to Vitruvius, Renaissance architects revived classical architecture, while animating it with disciplined, present-tense passion.  In a few crowded decades, classicism was revived from a thousand year quietus—and transformed into a prototype for the next 500 years of architectural design.

A conversation with Daniela Bleichmar and Vanessa Schwartz.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pharmacology emerged as a cutting edge branch of chemistry aligned with medical practice.  In recent decades, pharmacological research has expanded its methodology to encompass a comprehensive range of molecular, chemical, and biological perspectives, while at the same time becoming increasingly integrated into medical research and practice.  In the same period, pharmacology has branched out into psychotropic research as a crucial element not only of medical practice, but also as a pathway towards an understanding of the relation between...

A conversation with Richard Meyer.

How does the cosmos—whether one or multiple—hold itself together?  Here’s one theory, strings, the unifying of the universe via a sub-atomic grid that some scientists see as the binding force of the cosmos.   A USC physicist will suggest how this might be happening and the multiple disciplines involved in establishing the process.

Covering Quadrants:  (1) critical and integrative thinking; (2) study of the polymaths 

While genes determine whether a fertilized egg will become a mouse or a man, there is a level of biological randomness that causes identical twins to differ even before birth. This levels of randomness helps understand the limited success of the human genome projects in finding gene differences that underlie most variation in cancer, heart disease, and longevity.

A conversation with Ann Marie Yasin.

Covering Quadrants:  (3) the tapestry of knowledge; and (4) communication.