Week of August 22
This Week at OLLI
Fall Registration begins tomorrow!!
Monday
- 10:00AM Mindfulness
- 1:00PM C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves (Zoom)
Tuesday– Fall Registration Begins!!
REMINDER: You must have a current membership for the duration of classes you are planning on taking this fall. For example, if your class runs through October 31, and your membership expires on September 20, you must renew at the time of registration.
- 9:30AM The Evolution of Drug Discovery
- 1:00PM The Music of Young America
- 1:15PM Golf
- 3:30PM Vietnam War/Short Stories (Zoom)
Wednesday
- 10:00AM Find Your Voice
- 11:30AM Salon des Refuses
- 12:30PM Bowling
- 1:00PM Walking Group
- 4:00PM Advisory
Thursday
- 9:30AM Renewable Energy (Zoom)
- 1:00PM Mah Jonng
- 3:00PM SIGS Comm Mtg
NEW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Come learn and discuss the possibility of introducing a new Special Interest Group at OLLI this fall. Krystyna Kasman, OLLI member and instructor, invites us to dive into the question “Are We God’s Laboratory?” The meeting will be open to all members on Thursday, August 25, at 1:00pm at OLLI. Registration is not required.
Consider: Are we really alone in our universe? Looking for the answer to this question pushes astronomers, astrophysicists, astrobiologists and other astros… over the edge of human intellect to design experiments and equipment to perform these experiments and fulfill the hope for an answer. One of such tools, the super creation of the human brain is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – an infrared space observatory that orbits the Sun 1 million miles from the Earth and doing so uncovers the history of the Universe’s creation – its expansion from Big Bang around 13.8 billion years ago. The first full color image was taken from back over 13 billion years ago to see some of the earliest light of the universe. To search for alien life, the JWST is looking for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets. It has ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away, by capturing the signature of water and specific gas molecules. The telescope, for example, has been able to reveal hydrocarbons and silicate in the dust obscuring the Cartwheel Galaxy, using its Mid-Infrared Instruments.
Krystyna W. Kasman holds a M.Sc. from Warsaw University (Poland) and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Polish Academy of Science. Following postdoctoral research and work as a researcher at SUNY, Stony Brook, Krystyna was a senior scientist at Estee Lauder’s laboratories. Then she moved back to work in academia. In her research she used spectroscopy and electron microscopy among other methods. She loves to be a teacher as well as a learner. Among her many hobbies are the study of different gone-by cultures. For the OLLI at URI, Krystyna has taught Polish for Beginners, and two classes: “What We Should Know About Our Skin” and “Mirrors that Reflect Light and Time.”
OLLI-UA Online Speaker Series
Mark Sheldon: Is Taiwan Really the Next Ukraine?
Live Online Zoom Webinar on Monday, Sept 19 at 1:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Description:
A brief overview of Taiwan and PRC ties, the status of Taiwan in US-China relations, reforms, and political developments in Taiwan domestically, and an examination of the claim that Taiwan will somehow be the next Ukraine.
Click here for more information and to register: https://olli.arizona.edu/page/osherinvite
Report Wildlife Observations
The RIDEM Division of Fish and Wildlife requests the public’s assistance in reporting observations of wildlife throughout the state. Observations from citizen scientists help our state biologists understand the distribution, abundance and health of our native wildlife.
If you expect to report observations frequently, we recommend downloading the FREE Survey123 app on your smartphone. You only need to download the app once. Click on the appropriate survey button below and select “open in the Survey123 Field App”, the application will automatically download and you can enter future observations from the application on your phone!
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