New Meeting Room!
We've got a new room for this quarter! From here on out our meetings will take place in Smith 311. The meetings will still take place on Mondays at 5:30pm.
Neil deGrasse Tyson at the University of Washington!
Adventures of an Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City will be giving a public lecture at the University of Washington on May 12th! The event is free and open to the general public and online registration for the event begins March 31st. You can register and find out more about the event here.
Join Dr. Tyson for an illustrated talk as he reflects on highlights from his scientific career that include being blamed by adults and school children alike for demoting Pluto. Tyson will also share illuminating anecdotes from his time as space policy advisor to NASA, to the Bush White House, and to school systems. Tyson will further reflect on the Obama space plan, Mars Rovers, the search for life, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, the Large Hadron Collider and progress on a theory of everything.
The details of the event are described below:
- 6:30 pm
- May 12th, 2011
Kane Hall, Room 130Meany Hall- Registration starts March 31st
Update: The original event reached full capacity very quickly so it has been moved to Meany Hall, you can procure your ticket here.
Meeting on Monday (3/28)
We'll be having a meeting tomorrow (March 28th) at 5:30pm. Due to a lack of a response regarding room reservation we'll be meeting up at Smith 115 then heading out to dinner on the Ave. We'll be discussing upcoming events and recruitment planning for the near future.
I hope to see you all there!
- Chris
What’s different about today’s student atheists?
Psychology Today published an article today on the difference between present non-religious students and those of just a few years ago. The article cites the growth of the affiliates of the Secular Student Alliance from 50 groups in 2007 to greater than 250 in 2011 as evidence that non-religious college and high school students are self-identifying more readily than ever before.
The article can be found on Psychology Today's website here.
The Website has Returned!
Good news everyone! (As well as some slightly bad news.)
I was able to restore the website and get the blog up and running again. Unfortunately, I lost some of the data in the process. It seems that the database became corrupted sometime in late Autumn quarter. I was able to recover all of the blog posts (or at least, I believe this is all of them) but lost all of the comments that were made on them as well as some of the media that was uploaded into the database. I still have a backup copy of the old website so I may try to see if I can successfully extract the lost information out of it, but I suspect that I will not be able to.
At any rate, be sure to keep a watch on this website! We'll be announcing meetings and special events on here!