PROGRAMSScience Author Talks Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future with Chris MooneyNow You See It: the Brain Science of Attention with Cathy Davidson, PhDKnocking on Heaven's Door with physicist Lisa Randall, PhD A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos with Dava SobelThe Better Angels of our Nature with neuroscientist Stephen Pinker, PhDThe Universe Within with evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, PhDScience on Ice with polar photographer Chris Linder Science Writing – a conversation with Mary Roach (author of Gulp and many more) & Rebecca Skloot (author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction with biological anthropologist Robert Martin, PhDMe, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self with Jennifer OuelletteHow the Body Knows Its Mind with psychologist Sian Beilock, PhD

Film ScreeningsAn Inconvenient Truth – in Grant Park in collaboration with the Chicago Department of EnvironmentThe Right Stuff – in Grant Park in collaboration with Motorola, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and Chicago Public Library The Believers – award-winning documentary by 137 Films about the cold fusion scandal of 1989The Atom Smashers – documentary film by 137 Films screened in celebration of the July 2012 Higgs Boson discovery with panel discussion with physicists from Argonne and Fermi Laboratories

Chemistry for AdultsChemistry of Beer with Metropolitan Brewery (2010, 2012)Chemistry of Chocolate with Blommer Chocolate (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)Chemistry of Coffee with Intelligentsia Coffee (2011)Chemistry of Cosmetics with cosmetic chemist Perry Romanowski (2011)Chemistry of Honey with Notebaert Nature Museum (2011, 2014)Chemistry of Whiskey with Koval Distillery (2011)Chemistry of Spirits with CH Distillery (2015)

Brain / Neuroscience ProgramsYour Brain on Cubs: The Neuroscience of Baseball Players & Fans with the Dana Institute (2009)Your Brain on Happiness with Robin Nusslock, PhD, (2012)Your Brain on Creativity with Mark Jung-Beeman, PhD (2012)Your Brain and Memory with Elizabeth Kensinger, PhD (2012)Your Brain on Addiction with Celeste Napier, PhD (2012)Your Bain on Love, Sex & Oxytocin with Sue Carter, PhD and author Kayt Sukel (2012)Your Brain on Behavioral Addictions with John grant, PhD, JD, MD (2014)Your Brain on Beauty with Renee Engeln, PhD (2014)Your Brain & Exercise – What’s the Connection? with Art Kramer, PhD (2015)

More Awesome Science Tour of Argonne National LaboratoriesWeather Forecasting and Why It's Wrong – with meteorologist Tad MaguireString Theory Explained – with physicist Mark Jackson, PhD

ISC Programs continued –

Are We Ready for Genetic Medicine? – with geneticist Rex Chisholm, PhDIs It the Genes or Just the Jeans? – The Biology of GenderCSI: Chicago Style – Forensic Science by the ExpertsDinosaur Science – with paleontologist Paul Sereno, PhDDisappearing Bees – with entomologist May Barenbaum, PhDThe Doomsday Clock and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Encyclopedia of Life: The World’s Biodiversity Project – with Mark Westneat, PhD

Cancer Causing Viruses – with Ken Alexander, MDImprobable Research and Ig-Nobels Awards Show – AAAS Meeting Chicago (2009, 2014)Spooky Science – A fun yet scientific look at ghosts, ESP and Halloween Body Electric: Presentations on Lightning Strike Victims, Defibrillators & TASERsMulti-verses – with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, PhD and Chicago Public LibraryMeteors and Meteorites – with astronomer Laura Trouille, PhD, and geologist James Holstein, MA (2012)Perseid Meteor Shower – Chicago and Evanston

beaches opened for public shooting viewing of meteor showers (2012, 2013)Marijuana, Microbes & Milk: Science behind public health policy – with Jack Hermann, DVM, MPH and Yvette Johnson, PhD, DVM (2014)Science Cocktail Party fundraising party with DIRTT Environmental Solutions (2012, 2103, 2014, 2015)Pi Day Celebration promotion with Chicago area bakeries and restaurants on March 14th (annually 2009-2015)Pi Day ‘Pi K’ (3.14 mile) Fun Run with Fleet Feet Sports (2013, 2104, 2015)