Science on Tap: Global Shift - a Challenging Twist on Climate Change

Mar 12, 2013 9:00pm

Free State Brewing Co.
Many scientists study how soil and plants help regulate Earth's climate, and that work is becoming more important as humans alter the climate system. Scientists are looking for ways to predict how global shifts in temperature and precipitation may alter the Earth's biogeochemical cycles in the future. For this Science on Tap, Sharon Billings, KU associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will explore how soil and plants regulate Earth's climate and how humans are changing the balance.

Science on Tap is a science cafe hosted by Free State Brewing, 636 Massachusetts St. Guest moderators introduce a topic and then guide discussion with the audience. Bring your curiosity and your questions.

Kitty Steffens, 785-864-4450, naturalhistory@ku.edu

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Small Deaths

Feb 1, 2013 - Jun 9, 2013 See Summary

The Mulvane Art Museum is located at 17th and Jewell Streets on the campus of Washburn University.
Small Deaths, an exhibit of hand-colored photographs by Arizona artist Kate Breakey will be on exhibit at the Mulvane Art Museum February 1-June 9, 2013.This exhibit is on loan from the Whittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, an archive and creative center established at Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, to celebrate the photographic arts.
Since her childhood in South Australia, photographer-artist Kate Breakey has been moved by the often unnoticed animals that live, and die, in our proximity. She has taken care to memorialize these tiny creatures--young birds too small to fly, the careless lizard--in her hand-colored, large format photographs. These delicate and quite common animals--sensitively portrayed and vibrantly colored--seem, quite paradoxically, to come alive again.
The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, February 1 from 5-8pm.

Museum, ArtLab and Gift Shop hours are Tuesday 10-7, Wednesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday and Sunday 1-4.

Admission to the Museum and the ArtLab are free and open to the public. Free parking is conveniently located to the west of the Museum.


For more information call 670-1124 or check the web site at www.washburn.edu/mulvane.

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William L. Haney Rediscovered

Feb 1, 2013 - Jun 9, 2013 See Summary

Mulvane Art Museum
Works by William L. Haney, from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, will be exhibited at the Mulvane Art Museum February 1-June 9, 2013. William L. Haney was born in Strong City, Kansas in 1939, but he grew up in Topeka. He entered Washburn University in 1957 as an undergraduate, and graduated in 1961. With the encouragement of his professors in the art department at Washburn, such as James Hunt, who was also the Director of the Mulvane Art Museum at the time, Haney developed his life-long commitment to creating art. Grounded in art history, he developed into an artist both scholarly and revolutionary. Haney spent the key years of his professional life in New York City.

A gallery talk, conducted by Dr. Deanna Haney, will take place at the Mulvane Art Museum at noon on February 1st. The exhibit will open with a reception from 5-8pm. The Mulvane Art Museum is located at 17th and Jewell Streets on the campus of Washburn University. Museum, ArtLab and Gift Shop hours are Tuesday 10-7, Wednesday-Friday 10-5, Saturday and Sunday 1-4.
Admission to the Museum and the ArtLab are free and open to the public. Free parking is conveniently located to the west of the Museum. For more information call 670-1124 or check the web site at www.washburn.edu/mulvane.


Michael D. Allen, 785-670-2426, mulvane.info@washburn.edu

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