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Screening of ‘Small Truths’ (Civic Engagement Recognition Week event)
Please join us as documentarians Sarah Yuster and Michael McWeeney showcase their work, "Small Truths," which gives us an intimate look at the lives of NYC schoolchildren in Port Richmond, Staten Island. The stories discuss immigration through the unique perspective of young children.
‘Impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid on Global Species and Dinosaurs’
Academic and Cultural Enrichment presents Astronomical and Geological Aspects of the Chicxlub Impact on Global Species Including Dinosaurs
Dr. John W. Snedden is Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. from Trinity University (San Antonio), his M. S. at Texas A&M University (College Station), and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge). With multiple domestic and international assignments, he worked for Mobil and ExxonMobil for over 25 years in research, exploration, development, and production prior to joining UT. John has published on modern and ancient lagoonal, fluvial, deltaic, shelfal, and deepwater deposits as well as sequence stratigraphic correlation and reservoir connectivity. Recent research has focused on the Gulf of Basin including the Chicxulub (KPg) impact and its sedimentary and tectonic effects. He has served as Vice-President of GCS-SEPM and Secretary-Treasurer of SEPM. John has won the SEPM Excellence in Oral Presentation award, GCAGS Journal Best Paper Award and AAPG’s A.I. Levorsen Best Paper Award.
This event is a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador presentation.
‘Take Back The Night’ rally
Rally to end sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual abuse and all other forms of sexual violence.