1. PROGRAMS
Science Author Talks
Unscientific America: How
Scientific Illiteracy Threatens
our Future with Chris Mooney
Now You See It: the Brain
Science of Attention with
Cathy Davidson, PhD
Knocking on Heaven's Door
with physicist Lisa Randall,
PhD
A More Perfect Heaven: How
Copernicus Revolutionized
the Cosmos with Dava Sobel
The Better Angels of our
Nature with neuroscientist
Stephen Pinker, PhD
The Universe Within with
evolutionary biologist Neil
Shubin, PhD
Science on Ice with polar
photographer Chris Linder
Science Writing – a
conversation with Mary
Roach (author of Gulp and
many more) & Rebecca
Skloot (author of The Immortal
Life of Henrietta Lacks)
How We Do It: The Evolution
and Future of Human
Reproduction with biological
anthropologist Robert Martin,
PhD
Me, Myself and Why:
Searching for the Science of
Self with Jennifer Ouellette
How the Body Knows Its Mind
with psychologist Sian Beilock,
PhD
Film Screenings
An Inconvenient Truth – in
Grant Park in collaboration
with the Chicago Department
of Environment
The Right Stuff – in Grant Park
in collaboration with
Motorola, Illinois Department
of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity and Chicago
Public Library
The Believers – award-winning
documentary by 137 Films
about the cold fusion scandal
of 1989
The Atom Smashers –
documentary film by 137 Films
screened in celebration of
the July 2012 Higgs Boson
discovery with panel
discussion with physicists from
Argonne and Fermi
Laboratories
Chemistry for Adults
Chemistry of Beer with
Metropolitan Brewery (2010,
2012)
Chemistry of Chocolate with
Blommer Chocolate (2011,
2013, 2014, 2015)
Chemistry of Coffee with
Intelligentsia Coffee (2011)
Chemistry of Cosmetics with
cosmetic chemist Perry
Romanowski (2011)
Chemistry of Honey with
Notebaert Nature Museum
(2011, 2014)
Chemistry of Whiskey with
Koval Distillery (2011)
Chemistry of Spirits with CH
Distillery (2015)
Brain / Neuroscience
Programs
Your Brain on Cubs: The
Neuroscience of Baseball
Players & Fans with the Dana
Institute (2009)
Your Brain on Happiness with
Robin Nusslock, PhD, (2012)
Your Brain on Creativity with
Mark Jung-Beeman, PhD
(2012)
Your Brain and Memory with
Elizabeth Kensinger, PhD
(2012)
Your Brain on Addiction with
Celeste Napier, PhD (2012)
Your Bain on Love, Sex &
Oxytocin with Sue Carter, PhD
and author Kayt Sukel (2012)
Your Brain on Behavioral
Addictions with John grant,
PhD, JD, MD (2014)
Your Brain on Beauty with
Renee Engeln, PhD (2014)
Your Brain & Exercise – What’s
the Connection? with Art
Kramer, PhD (2015)
More Awesome Science
Tour of Argonne National
Laboratories
Weather Forecasting and
Why It's Wrong – with
meteorologist Tad Maguire
String Theory Explained – with
physicist Mark Jackson, PhD

2. ISC Programs continued –
Are We Ready for Genetic
Medicine? – with geneticist
Rex Chisholm, PhD
Is It the Genes or Just the
Jeans? – The Biology of
Gender
CSI: Chicago Style – Forensic
Science by the Experts
Dinosaur Science – with
paleontologist Paul Sereno,
PhD
Disappearing Bees – with
entomologist May
Barenbaum, PhD
The Doomsday Clock and The
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists
Encyclopedia of Life: The
World’s Biodiversity Project –
with Mark Westneat, PhD
Cancer Causing Viruses – with
Ken Alexander, MD
Improbable Research and Ig-
Nobels Awards Show – AAAS
Meeting Chicago (2009, 2014)
Spooky Science – A fun yet
scientific look at ghosts, ESP
and Halloween
Body Electric: Presentations
on Lightning Strike Victims,
Defibrillators & TASERs
Multi-verses – with cosmologist
Lawrence Krauss, PhD and
Chicago Public Library
Meteors and Meteorites – with
astronomer Laura Trouille,
PhD, and geologist James
Holstein, MA (2012)
Perseid Meteor Shower –
Chicago and Evanston
beaches opened for public
shooting viewing of meteor
showers (2012, 2013)
Marijuana, Microbes & Milk:
Science behind public health
policy – with Jack Hermann,
DVM, MPH and Yvette
Johnson, PhD, DVM (2014)
Science Cocktail Party
fundraising party with DIRTT
Environmental Solutions (2012,
2103, 2014, 2015)
Pi Day Celebration promotion
with Chicago area bakeries
and restaurants on March 14th
(annually 2009-2015)
Pi Day ‘Pi K’ (3.14 mile) Fun
Run with Fleet Feet Sports
(2013, 2104, 2015)