Please join the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the University of Georgia Press in welcoming author Kaye Minchew for a talk focused on her new book, A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia. A light reception and book signing will follow the lecture at 5 p.m.

The event is part of Ready, Steady, Vote!, a series of events spotlighting all things presidential during the 2016 election season.

"Sea Star Wasting Disease along the West Coast of North America," by Ben Miner in the Department of Biology at Western Washington University. Reception precedes seminar in lobby at 3:30 p.m. Host: Jeb Byers.

Contact: Beth Gavrilles 706-542-7247

School of Music faculty members Michael Heald, violin, and Maggie Snyder, viola, will be joined by guest artitsts Kenn Wagner and Joel Dallow from the Atlanta Symphony, and Ivo-Jan van der Werff, former member of the Medici String Quartet and Professsor of Viola at Rice University.

"TrowelBlazers: Women in Archaeology and Earth Sciences" presented by Dr. Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch

Emily Conron, student outreach coordinator for the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s END7 campaign, will speak about efforts to end seven neglected tropical diseases that infect more than 1.4 billion people worldwide in the next decade.

Contact: Donna Huber 706-542-9417

Henry L. Roediger III, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, will provide a quick history of interest in mnemonics and then discuss modern research. He will discuss the usual processes involved in mnemonic training and how these processes support the validity of conclusions derived from laboratory research, albeit in magnified form. Then, he will report results of a program of research on performance of expert mnemonists and report research on some of the top mnemonists of our time using a standard battery of tests.

Henry L. Roediger, III, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, will report on a program of research about the benefits of retrieval practice through quizzing as an aid to learning. Testing or quizzing is a practice usually considered only to measure what a student knows, but experimental research shows that retrieving information helps to stabilize the knowledge and make it easier to recall on future attempts.

Husband and wife Edward and Stephanie Neeman have been widely acclaimed for their impeccable musicianship and their unique onstage chemistry.

They have performed together at Steinway Hall in New York and at venues across the U.S., Indonesia, and Australia.

The Peabody Archives is a unique collection of media history, housing over 90,000 programs submitted to the Peabody Awards since its inception in 1941. What makes the collection exceptional is the breadth of stories through which their contributors have made a claim for historical significance. Items from local broadcasters, in particular, carry special value due to their rareness (Peabody houses the only remaining copies), as well as the fact that local broadcasters were much more active in telling local stories through original programming several decades ago.

In this compelling new play set in the near future, a scientist teaches a robot how to move, think, and feel like a human – and in the process the pair forges an unexpectedly profound and complex friendship.