Welcome back to Columbia and to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. Can I say that its actually fall? Will it be 80 degrees again this week? Bwog Science currently has no answers for this pressing question. As always, email maggie@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

Bridging the Gap: Co-producing Climate Research Lunch

  • Monday, October 13, 12 pm to 1 pm.
  • Fayerweather Hall Room 513 and online via Zoom. Registration required.
  • As part of their Co-Production of Knowledge Initiative, the center for Science and Society will bring together expert speakers to present a new framework to rethink how scholars can conduct collaborative research. In order to fully understand the biggest impacts of climate issues, researchers must fully engage with communities most impacted. Speakers will reflect on what co-production of climate research can look like through presenting their experience collaborating with communities in Madagascar. More information.

Biology Department Seminar: Hypothalamic Evolution and Regeneration Suppressors

  • Monday, October 13, 12 pm to 1:15 pm.
  • Fairchild Hall, Room 601. Registration not required.
  • Stanford Associate Professor Bo Wang will present how recent technology has improved how scientists can understand the diversity and evolution of cell types, as well as insights gained from this. It will touch on how behaviors like hunger and thirst evolved, how bodily tissues respond to cancer, and more. Learn more.

Climate Treaties: Time for a New Approach

  • Tuesday, October 14, 6 pm to 8 pm.
  • The Forum, 601 West 125th Street. Registration required.
  • The Center for Political Economy will offer a lecture to ask hard questions around why approaches to climate negotiations in the past 35 years have failed to meet expectations. It will discuss an alternative focusing on individual sectors and how policies can provide the “big push” needed for universal adoption and change. More information.

Fentanyl Test Strip & Naloxone Training

  • Thursday, October 16, 12 to 1 pm.
  • John Jay Hall, Third Floor Conference Room. Registration not required.
  • Join Columbia Health to learn the facts on opioid overdoses and how to treat and respond to them. Those who take the training will learn how to use fentanyl test strips and administer naloxone. Attendees will also be able to take a fentanyl test strip or a naloxone kit. More information.

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