Events

This 2-part workshop focuses on storytelling in science and bringing yourself into the narrative.

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Oakes will share insights from her process of writing two nature/environment books as well as contributing to other major media outlets. Content and activities will help students develop skills as creative communicators and brainstorm compelling ways of writing about scientific...

The Future of Forests and our Lives Connected to Them

A book talk and conversation with scientist and author Lauren E. Oakes

About Treekeepers: The Race for Forested Future:In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent “doing something good for the planet.” Many companies commit to planting a tree with every purchase. But who plants those trees and where? Will they flourish and offer the benefits that people expect?

In Treekeepers, Lauren E. Oakes takes us on a poetic and practical journey from the Scottish Hig...

The Levitt Center invites you to a Community Conversation on TikTok: Security Threat or Speech Haven? Please note this event takes place in the Blood Fitness Center Conference Room. Space is limited!  RSVP here for lunch. 

On January 18, TikTok went dark. After the Supreme Court upheld a federal law ordering TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell ...

 This 2-part workshop focuses on storytelling in science and bringing yourself into the narrative.

RSVP here

Oakes will share insights from her process of writing two nature/environment books as well as contributing to other major media outlets. Content and activities will help students develop skills as creative communicators and brainstorm compelling ways of writing about scientifi...

The Levitt Center invites you to a lunchtime discussion with Associate Professor of Government Alexsia Chan entitled "Avoiding War Over Taiwan".  Please RSVP here for lunch.

Why is Taiwan a geopolitical hotspot? What d...

Heather Hage '02, President & CEO of Griffiss Institute and 2025 Levitt Community Fellow, will share her views on the history and future of "Griffiss" in Rome, NY, from the inception of Griffiss Air Force Base to Griffiss Business and Technology Park, and the role of the Griffiss Institute and Innovare Advancement Center in shaping the future of science and technology in the Mohawk Valley Region and beyond.

 

Amanda Daflos, Hamilton alum and Executive Director for Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins will give a talk. Additional details forthcoming.

Lunch discussion with Amanda Daflos.

The Levitt Center invites you to a talk titled "Innovation and Public Policy: U.S. at a Crossroads" with Paul Asel. RSVP here for lunch

Innovation is a catalyst for economic growth. U.S. support for innovation and entrepreneurs has long been the foundation for global leadership. Yet the U.S. is at a crossroads as global competitors vie for leadership in artificial intelligence and other key technologies. This presentation discusses how U.S. polic...

The Levitt Center would like to invite you to a talk titled "Accumulation by Adaptation" with Kimberley Thomas, Associate Professor of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies Temple University. Accumulation by adaptation names the phenomenon by which political and economic elites profit from climate adaptation efforts. As with the notion of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ from which it derives, the term speaks to the injustice of capital accumulation—in this case, accumulation associated with configuring some groups' vulnerability to climate c...