October 22, 2014

Graduate School Public Lectures: Olympia Snowe, Nobel recipient Michael Levitt and more

Seats are still available for three of the four UW Graduate School Public Lectures of 2014, presented in cooperation with the UW Alumni Association. The lectures are all free, but advance registration is required.

The series begins with a lecture by Olympia Snowe, a former U.S. senator from Maine, who will speak at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in Room 130 of Kane Hall. Her lecture is titled “Anything is Possible — How to Overcome Obstacles and Make a Difference.”

“An Evening with Dolores Huerta” is next up, with the co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers, speaking at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in Room 120 of Kane Hall. Online registration for this lecture is full but some standby seating will be available 15 minutes before the lecture starts.

Marc Rotenberg, professor of law at Georgetown University and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will give a lecture titled “Watching the Watchers: Fighting Back in an Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Kane Hall’s Room 110.

Michael Levitt, Stanford University professor of structural biology and recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will give a lecture titled “The Birth of Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecules” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec 4, in Kane Hall’s Room 120.