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Cubberley Lecture Series Presents - An evening with Bill Nye

Cubberley Lecture Series Presents - An evening with Bill Nye

Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Memorial Auditorium

An Evening with Bill Nye the Science Guy - educator, author, Emmy Award winner and CEO of the Planetary Society

followed by a conversation with Stanford Graduate School of Education faculty Nicole Ardoin and Bryan Brown

Thursday, May 5
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Book signing: 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium
551 Serra Mall - Stanford University

This event is currently at capacity. To be added to a notification list and informed if seats are released, please click HERE.

For assistance, please call the Stanford Ticket Office Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at: (650) 725-2787.

Humanity is changing the Earth's heat balance faster than ever in the planet's history. Climate change threatens our survival, and the solution depends on how this generation responds. What can teachers and schools do to give young people the scientific knowledge and analytical skills to meet this challenge?

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Nicole Ardoin holds a joint appointment with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her scholarship examines the role of education in engaging communities in productive dialogue about sustainability.

Bryan Brown is Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the GSE. Brown's research explores the relationship between student identity, discourse, classroom culture and academic achievement in science education.

Bill Nye is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society. Making science accessible is something Nye has been doing most of his life. His fascination with science led him to Cornell University and a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1977. Soon after, Boeing recruited him as an engineer. In Seattle, Nye began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy, when he won the Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. In 1993, “Bill Nye the Science Guy®” was born, earning 19 Emmys in five years. Nye wrote his first book for a general audience, Undeniable - Evolution and the Science of Creation, featured on the New York Times Bestsellers List, in 2014. Nye is the CEO of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of space science and exploration.

Mr. Nye will be signing copies of Unstoppable:  Harnessing Science to Change the World and Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation.  He cannot sign photos, memorabilia, tickets, etc. The above books will be available for sale by the Stanford Bookstore at the event. 

Seating/Tickets: Tickets are required for this free event. The Will Call desk will open at 5:00 p.m. at the top of the steps in front of MemAud in case you asked to have your tickets left there. Seating is general admission, first-come, first-served. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. If you are not in the venue by 6:05 p.m. your seat may be given to a non-ticket holder. If you ordered tickets and can no longer attend, please call the Stanford Ticket Office Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at: (650) 725-2787 to release your seat(s). 

Parking is free after 4:00 pm on weekdays. Galvez Lot at the corner of Galvez Street and Campus Drive has been reserved for the event. 

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact Sheila Sanchez in the Diversity & Access Office, at (650) 725-0326, or sheilas@stanford.edu. Requests should be made by April 16.

Event Details


Price 
https://ed.stanford.edu/alumni/cubberley-lecture/2016
Sponsor 
Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Heising-Simons Foundation

Contact Information


Contact Name 
Holly Materman
Contact Phone 
(650) 723-0630
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