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Past Science Cafe Events
Virtual Penn Science Café: Climate Change Consequences for Plants, Whose Lives Depend on the Sun
Speaker: Brenda Casper, Professor of Biology and Chair of Earth and Environmental Science
,Speaker: Brent Helliker, Professor of Biology
Penn Science Café
Plants are already showing the impact of human-induced climate change: they’re flowering earlier, shifting their growing range, and climbing mountains, all the while saving us from even greater climate-change impacts.
Penn Science Café: COVID-19 and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Speaker: Joseph Kable, Baird Term Professor of Psychology and Director of MindCORE
,Speaker: Barbara Mellers, I. George Heyman University Professor in Psychology and Marketing
Penn Science Café
The pandemic has entered a new phase, full of new questions. A nationwide press to loosen restrictions comes just as we are going into an apparent “fourth wave” of infections. Vaccines are becoming more broadly available – but will enough people choose to be vaccinated?
Penn Science Café: The Global Ethics of Vaccine Distribution
Speaker: Kok-Chor Tan, Professor of Philosophy
,Speaker: Michael Weisberg, Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Penn Science Café
The recent announcements from Pfizer and Moderna highlight the record speed at which the race for an effective coronavirus vaccine has progressed over the past eight months.