Featured Event

Engineering Plants: The 12,000 Year Plan

October 27, 2020
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Facebook Live and C2ST YouTube TV

Program Series:
Life Science Technology and Engineering

About 12,000 years ago, early humans began directly shaping nature through selective breeding of plants and animals. This moment in time is called the Agricultural Revolution. What humans eat today, in Chicago and around the globe, is a direct result of the advances made thousands of years before any of us were ever born. But the truth is that the Agricultural Revolution never stopped. In some ways, it’s just begun… Read more…

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Science Debate 2020

A non-partisan coalition of national and Illinois science policy organizations prepared a questionnaire for all Illinois Congressional candidates asking them to state their proposals for dealing with the pandemic, climate change, energy, environment, and other pressing issues of public concern.

Upcoming Events

Annual Fall Social

October 29, 2020
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Virtual

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Last year’s Fall Social was one of our best yet. And while it’s a shame we can’t get together in person this year, there’s no reason we shouldn’t try and meet up via the ingenious series of tubes known as the “internet” (thanks Al Gore!).

So, with Fall right around the corner, we are inviting YOU (and anyone else hunkering down in your apartment/house/doomsday bunker) to join us for the 4th Annual Fall Social!

Picture a Scientist: Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion

November 18, 2020
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Facebook Live and C2ST YouTube TV

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Program Series:
Science and Society

Picture a Scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Read more…