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  • A Discussion of the State of the Media in the Early Twenty-First Century (1259)

    Mary Kay Mitchell

    (Open) Monday, October 4, 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

    $15

    This Lunch and Learn will present a 3-person panel consisting of three local media professionals..

  • Obituaries in American History (1260)

    Dr. Janice Hume

    (Open) Monday, November 1, 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

    $15

    Newspaper obituaries do far more than report deaths and publicize funerals.In memorializing individual citizens, they make a public expression of values and offer hints about the ways Americans have viewed death.They provide little windows for viewing the nation's cultural history.

  • The Lost Squadron: The P-38 Recovery (1261)

    Pat Epps, Richard Taylor

    (Open) Monday, December 6, 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

    $15

    On July 15, twenty-five airmen flying six P-38s and B-17s made a forced landing on the Greenland ice cap, 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle.Nine days later, the airmen were found alive huddled in one of the B-17s. The aircraft, which became known as "The Lost Squadron," vanished for the next 50 years.In 1980, Pat Epps and colleague Richard Taylor, the architect who designed the Butts-Meier building, flew Epps' Bonanza to the magnetic North Pole to see what a magnetic compass actually does when flown over the Pole.

  • What is Evidence-Based Medicine? (1258)

    Mark Ebell

    (Open) Monday, September 20, 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM

    $15

    Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is the most important change in medical education and practice in the past 25 years. Although widely misunderstood by physicians and largely unknown by patients, it has the potential to rationalize the delivery of medical care and make sure that patients get the right care at the right time.