Engage Wellness is offering free mobility and cognition screenings to the public (adults 60 & older) on April 4 from 11am to 1pm. The screening will take approximately 30min. No sign up required, just stop by the wellness center.
Megan Bull Bear, owner of Lakota Made, will visit the Kiewit Luminarium with an interactive experience exploring practices of growing and tending to medicinal plants. Megan will share traditional Indigenous insights into a variety of plants, their medicinal benefits, and practices of building relationships with the natural world. The discussion will highlight the importance of […]
Join the Nebraska Science Festival for Science Sunday from 1-2pm in April at the Omaha RiverFront, next to the slides. This is a free family friendly hour for you to learn about nature, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and more with hands-on science activities (while supplies last). Science Sunday Activities: April 6 - Tin Foil Watercolor Eggs […]
Join the Nebraska Science Festival for Science Sunday from 1-2pm in April at the Omaha RiverFront. This is a free family friendly hour for you to learn about nature, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and more with hands-on science activities (while supplies last). Science Sunday Activities: April 6 - Tin Foil Watercolor Eggs April 13 - Seed […]
If you love digging into your ancestral past, this is the study hall for you! Use the Kearney Public Library's resources to help you in your quest. This class won't teach you what to do, but volunteers from the Buffalo County Historical Society and library staff will be there to give assistance when needed. So, […]
Discover the true story of the Black Angels at the 16th annual Richard B. Davis, MD, PhD History of Medicine Lecture on April 16, from noon–1 pm, online via Zoom (registration required). Author Maria Smilios learned about the Black Angels while working as a science book editor at Springer Publishing. As a native New Yorker and […]
In this public talk, Dr. Laura Johnson Dahlke will discuss the future of human reproduction and present timely information on the scientific development of artificial womb technology and its implications for humanity. She will further explore the value of pregnancy and childbirth in the 21st century, questioning the notion that mechanical gestation will lead to full […]
Join Dr. Katie East for an entertaining look into forensic anthropology on the screen to learn what forensic anthropologists actually do. Compare television, movies and real life. It may be entertaining when pop culture gets forensic anthropology wrong, but the consequences are more real than you think. This is a free event for teens aged […]
In this workshop, learn about the intimate relationship between Indigenous practices of plant foraging and the cycles of the moon. Sicangu Lakota artist and educator Steve Tamayo will share insight on the many plant medicines Indigenous communities have relied on for generations, how these relationships with plant relatives were impacted by colonization, and how they […]
Join Dr. Katie East for an entertaining look into forensic anthropology on the screen to learn what forensic anthropologists actually do. Compare television, movies and real life. It may be entertaining when pop culture gets forensic anthropology wrong, but the consequences are more real than you think. This is a free event for teens aged […]
Join Giorgia Picci,Ph.D., the Susan & George Haddix Endowed Chair in Developmental Neuroscience in the Institute for Human Neuroscience at Boys Town National Research Hospital, for the April 22 Omaha Science Cafe as she presents, “The Teenage Brain,” 7pm at the Slowdown. The teenage brain is built for change. Decades of research have shown that […]
Join Dr. Katie East for an entertaining look into forensic anthropology on the screen to learn what forensic anthropologists actually do. Compare television, movies and real life. It may be entertaining when pop culture gets forensic anthropology wrong, but the consequences are more real than you think. This is a free event for teens aged […]
Join the Nebraska Science Festival for Science Sunday from 1-2pm in April at the Omaha RiverFront. This is a free family friendly hour for you to learn about nature, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and more with hands-on science activities (while supplies last). Science Sunday Activities: April 6 - Tin Foil Watercolor Eggs April 13 - Seed […]
Stop out to Site-1 Brewing on April 29 at 7pm to learn about "The Sounds of Science: Hearing Music Through Art and Science." Moderated by Dr. Allison Coffin, Associate Professor at Creighton University, panelists Dr. Chris Strecker, Director of the Technology Core and Spatial Hearing and Auditory Neuroscience Lab and Dr. A. Barron Breland, Vice […]
