The Record Happenings

Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021

SynBio Young Speaker Series kicks off today

The Synthetic Biology Young Speaker Series, a yearlong program of weekly virtual seminars, launches at 10 a.m. today with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Frances Arnold of California Institute of Technology. Tae Seok Moon, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has organized the series. Each session will include a short talk by a global thought or synthetic biology leader, followed by a longer talk by a rising star. Today’s rising star is Albert Keung of North Carolina State University.

Upcoming events

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Virtual tour: Art on Campus

2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29

Leslie Markle, curator for public art, will discuss artworks installed throughout the Danforth Campus as part of the Art on Campus program, a growing collection of public artworks by nationally and internationally recognized artists.

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Strategies for supporting teens in pandemic recovery

12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31

Brown School alumna Stephanie Malia Krauss will share emerging research and brain science on adolescence, exploring what the past two pandemic school years and summers mean for their learning, development and future.

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COVID-19, the Abraham accords and the 2021 elections

Noon Wednesday, Sept. 1

Itai Sened of Tel Aviv University, an expert on decision making, institutions and policy, will deliver a presentation about “Israel’s politics in an uncertain world.”

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Looking ahead

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Cosmic-ray astrophysics seminar

4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8

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‘The Outwin: American Portraiture Today’ exhibit opens

11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10

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‘How to Fight Injustice Without Hating’

1–2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10

Exhibits and ongoing events

Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit on view

Hostile Terrain 94 is a global pop-up exhibition composed of thousands of handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who died in the Arizona desert between the mid-1990s and 2019. Intended to spark conversations about borders and border crossings and their impact on communities, the exhibit will be in the Kemper Art Museum lobby through Sept. 5.