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Earth Sciences, Life Sciences and Environment
Idaho Matters: What Goes Into Removing a Dam?
Idea of Nature Series: Two Lectures in April
Idea of Nature Lecture on March 28
Idea of Nature Lecture on February 9
Event: Dr. Alex Bezzerides on October 19
Event: “Early Footsteps” Lecture on October 9
Water Recycling Pilot Tour on October 14
Event: Introduction to Birding on August 16
Article: Women Trailblazers in Conservation
Article: Mapping the Genetic Footprint of Big Sagebrush
Golden Eagle Audubon Society: Jean Mohler Sidinger
Article: Invasive Plants in Idaho’s Wildlands
Archaeology Month at Celebration Park
Earth Day 2022: Invest in Our Planet
Article: Everything in Your Orange Bags
Article: Biodiversity: Nature by Another Name
Article: Geologists Dig Into Grand Canyon’s Mysterious Gap in Time
Article: Mural Depicts the Impact of Coral Bleaching
Powells Event: Susan Simard and Aaron Scott
Event: Earth Day 2021 – Change Starts Here
Event: Women in Environmental Leadership Series
Article: Doctoral Student Advances Vanilla Plant Research
Article: How to Help Reverse Insect Declines
Lecture: “GEAS Intro to Birding”
TED Talk: “How Trees Talk to Each Other”
TED Talk: “Indigenous Knowledge Meets Science to Solve Climate Change”
Video: “Idaho Conservation League ‘Wild Idaho!’ Sessions”
Video: “The Global Coffee Crisis is Coming”
Course: Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
Article: “‘Frequent Fliers:’ American Kestrels Take to the Skies in a New Study”
Audubon Society: Birds of Maine
Article: “Whales Get A Break As Pandemic Creates Quieter Oceans”
TED Talk: “Every Day You Live, You Impact the Planet”
Article: “The Case of the Missing Bacteria”
Podcast Episode: “The Science Behind That Fresh Rain Smell”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Planet in Peril”
30th Annual Grand Canyon Star Party: June 13-20
Article: “Coronavirus Closures Could Lead to a Radical Revolution in Conservation”
Lecture: “Environmental Health Challenges in Developing Countries: A Guatemalan Case Study”
TED Talk: “How Monitoring Animal Health can Predict Human Disease Outbreaks”
Article: “Mapping Idaho Herbivores’ ‘Salad Bar’ from the Sky”
Article: “Unlocking Geochronology Mysteries in the Grand Canyon”
Article: “Out of the Classroom, Into the Field”
Osher Institute Lecture: “History of Good Earth State Park at Blood Run”
Live Animal Cams from Zoos and Aquariums
Osher Institute Course: “Facing the Future: Challenges of Climate Change”
Video: “Everyday Decisions and Environmental Changes”
Article: “Everything You Wanted to Know About Red Tides”
Article: “Covid-19 Can’t Stop Citizen Science”
TED Talk: “What Vaccinating Vampire Bats can Teach us About Pandemics”
The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks
Osher Presenter Book Release: Journey of the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear
TED Talk: “The Amazing Brains and Morphing Skin of Octopuses and Other Cephalopods”
Health and Well-Being
2024 Virtual Lecture Series: 21st Century Medicine
Event: Falls Risk Screening Fair on October 21
Brain Health Symposium on October 21
Hot Weather Safety for Older Adults
Article: 9 Essential Nutrients for Adults Over 50
Article: America’s War Against Heart Disease
Psychology Lecture Series October 11-12
Carl and Jean Grosz Health Sciences Lecture Series: Jim Yong Kim, MD
Mindful Movement for Healthy Aging
Video: Innovations in Healthy Aging
Walk With a Doc Aloha Adventure
Article: COVID-Safe Exercise Ideas for Older Adults This Winter
Osher Institute Lecture: Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory
Article: Breathing Wildfire Smoke Can Affect the Brain
Video: Maintaining Your Sense of Self in the Pandemic
Article: How Exercise Enhances Aging Brains
Article: NIH Networks to Advance Emotional Well-Being Research
Osher Institute Speaker Series: Sleep and Dreams During COVID-19
Osher Institute Lecture: Healthcare Does Not Equal Health
Article: “How to Care for Your Mental Health in a Difficult Holiday Season, According to Therapists”
Article: Dr. Anthony Fauci on COVID-19 Vaccines and the Holidays
Article: “Older adults have more control over their aging than they think”
Article: “A Young Athlete’s Breathing Problems Weren’t Asthma. What Were They?”
Article: “How To Mitigate Loneliness And Its Consequences”
Great Decisions Episode: “Global Health: Preventing Pandemic”
Article: “‘Doomscrolling’ During COVID-19: What It Does to You and How You Can Avoid It”
Talks at Google: “Sadhguru: ‘Developing an Inclusive Consciousness'”
Article: “How Well is Telepsychology Working?”
Lecture: “Making Marriage Work”
TED Talk: “The New Science of Personalized Vaccines”
Talks at Google: “Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams”
Article: “Racial Disparities in the Time of COVID-19”
Webinar: “Accelerate Out of the Curve: Episode Five”
Article: “Chinese Philosophy has Long Known That Mental Health is Communal”
Article: “The Best Way to Exercise Self-Control is Not to Exercise It At All”
Webinar: “Accelerate Out of the Curve: Episode Four”
Osher Institute Lecture: “The Doctor as a Patient: How it Changed Her Life”
Article: “The Surprisingly Long History of the Ventilator, the Machine You Never Want to Need”
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Podcast Series
TED Talk: “Why It’s So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions”
Lecture: “Depression in the U.S.”
Webinar: “Accelerate Out of the Curve: Episode Three”
TED Talk: “Why Sleep Matters Now More Than Ever”
Webinar: “Accelerate Out of the Curve: Episode Two”
Osher Institute Lecture: “COVID-19 Vaccine…The Science Behind our Immunity”
Webinar: “Accelerate Out of the Curve: Episode One”
Osher Institute Course: “Maintaining Optimum Brain Health and Fitness”
ASU & Mayo Clinic Health and Well-Being Certificate
Osher Institute Lecture: “Communicating with Persons Living with Dementia”
Philosophy, Arts and Humanities
Hemingway Center Lecture With Dr. Suzanne del Gizzo on March 6
Spring 2024 Exhibitions at the Blue Galleries
Podcast: Context – Idaho Humanities Council
Shane Sato Exhibit Opening Reception on November 2
Writing Workshops and Retreats With Elisabeth McKetta
Boise State Blue Galleries Fall Semester Exhibitions
Live From StoryKnife on July 18
Event: Public Art Dedication on May 15
Event: Xiaowei Wang Reading + Discussion on April 12
Video: Library Conversations – Wharton’s Men
Theater of War Presents: The Long-Term Care Trilogy
Blue Galleries Exhibit: Notes for Tomorrow
New Exhibits in Student Union Galleries
Idaho Review Wins Two 2022 Pushcart Prizes
Literature for Lunch on April 22
Stars of Steinway April Performances
The Idea of Nature Lecture Series: Stephanie LeMenager
Stars of Steinway Performance: Kenny Broberg
Literature for Lunch on February 25
The Idea of Nature Lecture Series: Terry Tempest Williams
Literature for Lunch on January 28
Article: Basque Public Radio Features “Boiseko Taupada”
Literature for Lunch on November 12
Literature for Lunch on September 3
Event: The Waves in Quarantine
Boise State Biennial Faculty Exhibition
The Idea of Nature Lecture Series: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Event: Gene Harris Jazz Festival
The Idea of Nature Lecture Series: Loren Davis
Writing Workshop: Lucia Berlin
The Idea of Nature Lecture Series: Allan Wallach
James Castle House Resident Talk: A. H. Jerriod Avant
Osher Institute Speaker Series: Editors of The Diné Reader
Article: “The Idaho Review Wins Fifth Pushcart Prize”
Video: “How Four Chefs Are Preserving History Through Food”
TED Talk: “The Poetry of Everyday Speech”
Out of the Woods: A Live Play Reading Series
Lecture: “How To Speak by Patrick Winston”
Video: “Chew It Over with Jenna Wortham, Wesley Morris, and Samin Nosrat”
Sonoma Valley Authors Virtual Festival
Podcast Episode: “Playing Favorites: When Kindness Toward Some Means Callousness Toward Others”
Now Streaming: Bristol Old Vic at Home
TED Talk: “The Genius Behind Some of the World’s Most Famous Buildings”
Course: “Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature”
Available Until June 30: Just Mercy
Article: “Much of the Cuisine We Now Know, and Think of as Ours, Came to Us by War”
Now Streaming: National Theatre at Home
Spring 2020 Online BFA Exhibition
Available Until May 24: The Diary of Anne Frank
Video: “The Future of Irish Cuisine”
Video: “That Famous Cello Prelude, Deconstructed”
Documentary: “The Mystery Conman – The Murky Business of Counterfeit Antiques”
TED Talk: “How Language Shapes the Way We Think”
Now Streaming: Shakespeare’s Globe
Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
Physical Sciences, Technology and Engineering
How Aviation Could Steer Regulation of AI in Health
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on November 3
Video: AI, Boise State and the Future of Higher Education
Article: Generative AI Imagines New Protein Structure
Video: Ready for Brain Transparency?
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on January 6
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on December 2
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on October 7
Images From the James Webb Space Telescope
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on May 6
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on April 1
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on March 4
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on February 4
Article: Are We Headed Towards a Technological Singularity?
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on November 5
First Friday Astronomy Lecture on October 1
Osher Institute Lecture: The Future of Cryptocurrency
Article: How to Get Government-Backed Discounts for High-Speed Internet
First Friday Astronomy Event on August 6
First Friday Astronomy Event on July 2
First Friday Astronomy Event on June 4
First Friday Astronomy Event on May 7
Power Talk: Planning and Policy Across Natural Gas and Power Markets
First Friday Astronomy Event on April 2
Video: Lessons From Space Quarantine
Event: Nicole Perlroth in Conversation With John Markoff
Lecture: Innovative Lives: Uncharted Power
First Friday Astronomy Event on February 5
Article: Project Scientia Spreads Science, Celebrates Spanish
Video: “Investigating the Periodic Table with Experiments”
Lecture: “Introduction to Algorithms: Algorithmic Thinking and Peak Finding”
July 19, 2020: See the Moon and Five Planets Before Sunrise
Video: “Titanium: The Metal That Made The SR-71 Possible”
Join an Interview with Boise Astronauts on June 24
Talks at Google: “Catch Me If You Can: Frank Abagnale”
Lecture: “Lessons from Space Quarantine”
Podcast: “Startalk” with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Video: “How Ads Follow You Around the Internet”
Lecture: “Solar Geoengineering to Manage Climate”
TED Talk: “Why Isn’t the Netherlands Underwater?”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Wind Energy and the Changing Electric Generation Mix”
TED Talk: “How We Explore Unanswered Questions in Physics”
Lecture: “Reverse Engineering Visual Intelligence”
Celebrating 30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
SpaceX Starlink Satellite Launch on April 22
Osher Institute Lecture: “Beyond Earth: 50 Years Since Apollo 11”
Documentary: “In the Age of AI”
TED Talk: “The Art and Science of Special Effects”
Osher Institute Lecture: “My Trip to the International Space Station”
Public Affairs, History, Business and Current Events
Idaho Matters: Taking a Walk on the South Side of Boise
Idaho Matters: How Idaho Refugees Are Sewing Hope Into a New Future
Fettucine Forum With Dr. Karl Brooks on April 4
Distinguished Lecture Series on March 13
Fettucine Forum with Dr. Krista Paulsen on March 7
Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative Lecture: Dr. Trinidad Gonzales
Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Robert George on October 23
Humanities and Social Sciences Initiatives Lecture: Dr. Eleana J. Kim
NPR Extra Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month
Interview: Emily Drabinski on the Rise of Book Bans
Dr. Johann Neem Keynote Address on August 3
The Evolution of the Pride Flag
Virtual Juneteenth Celebration at James Madison’s Montpelier
Alturas Institute Presents: Constitutional Conversations
Distinguished Lecture Series on March 2
Humanities North Dakota Event With Dr. David Adler
Lunar New Year Celebration on January 21
Brandt Foundation Lecture: Steven H. Hanke
37th Annual Frank Church Conference on Oct. 6
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month
Event: Chinese Mining Heritage and History in Idaho
Observing Juneteenth With the Idaho Black History Museum
Event: Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events
Exhibit: Chinese Mining in Idaho
Osher Institute Lecture: Reaching Across the Racial Divide
Alturas Institute’s 7th Annual Conversations With Exceptional Women
Osher Institute Lectures: Summer Speaker Series
Osher Institute Lecture: Dear Bob…
Juneteenth: A Celebration of Resilience
Event: A Conversation With Hannibal Johnson
Strand Event: Carol Leonnig and Stephanie Ruhle
Article: How Infrastructure has Historically Promoted Inequality
Article: Luminarias: Celebrating Latinas Who Inspire Us
Lecture: War, Combat, and the American Soldier
Event: Mother Tongue Film Festival 2021
Lecture: “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration”
Osher Institute Event: “Meet the Lawyer for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Article: “In Times of Conflict, How Can We Support the People Who Keep Culture Alive?”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Election and Voting Security in the United States”
Article: “What Bikes Tell Us About A Changing Global Economy”
Article: “The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women’s Suffrage From Nay To Yea”
TED Talk: “Why Are Drug Prices So High? Investigating the Outdated US Patent System”
Article: “How Taiwanese Death Rituals Have Adapted for Families Living in the U.S.”
Great Decisions Episode: “India Rising”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Why Do We Have the Electoral College? Should We?”
Article: “What British People in 1776 Really Thought of American Independence”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Finding Itself at Odds with the Neighbor: The Case of Ukraine and Russia”
Documentary: “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality”
Documentary: “Race – The Power of An Illusion”
Talks at Google: “So You Want to Talk About Race: Ijeoma Oluo”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Early History of South Africa”
Osher Institute Lecture: “The Coming Chaos with Frank Figliuzzi”
Interview: “Executive Director Of The Idaho Black History Museum On Racial Unrest”
Documentary: “China: Power and Prosperity”
Osher Institute Course: “The World’s Longest History Lesson”
Article: “With a New Grant, Professor Aims to Catalog ‘Drowned Towns’ of the American West”
Osher Institute Lecture: “How to Talk Across the Political Divide”
Video: “This Photo Triggered China’s Cultural Revolution”
Video: “The Constitution: Changes and Challenges in US History”
Documentary: “Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos”
Article: “Coronavirus Closes in on Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh’s Cramped, Unprepared Camps”
Video: “Spanish Flu: A Warning from History”
Osher Institute Lecture: “Redistricting and Gerrymandering Across the States”
Video Series: “Great Decisions 2020”
Interview: “How Small Pox Eradication May Have Lessons for COVID-19 Pandemic”
Community Resources
AARP Magazine Names Boise a Great Place to Live
Collette Travel Information Session Recording Available Now
Enneagram Workshop on March 8 and 9
Collette Travel Tour: Historical Greenbrier
Osher Institute Members Featured in IdaHome Magazine
Idaho Caregivers Alliance Event on June 27
Volunteers Needed for Holocaust Exhibit at Boise State
Celebrate China Night at Boise State University
StoryCorps is Coming to Boise!
Event: Virtual Community Conversation With Jason Karlawish, MD
City Club Virtual Conversation on December 7
City Club Virtual Conversation on August 25
Morrison Center Neighborhood Concert Series
JUMP Jam & Jive Summer Concert Series
Event: City Club of Boise’s 4th Annual Marilyn Shuler Human Rights Forum
Map: Boise Traffic Box Art Sites
Video: Lunch for Literacy 2021
Event: Building Climate and Community Resilience in the City of Trees
City Club of Boise Virtual Conversation: Vaccine Expert Panel
Boise Metro Chamber: Idaho’s Vaccine Distribution Plan
Article: “The Luncheonette Opens on the Bench, Fulfills All Sandwich Desires”
Central District Health Department Mandates Face Masks Across Ada County
Boise Metro Chamber 2020 Civility Forum
Do Something Good: How You Can Help our Communities
Share Your COVID-19 Experience with the Boise City Department of Arts & History
Recipe Roundup with the Idaho Humanities Council
Local Grocery Delivery: Anderson Reserve
Find a Pen Pal with the Idaho Humanities Council
Rediscovered Books Offering Curbside Pick-Up and Delivery
Local Grocery Delivery: Boise Milk
Special Hours for Treasure Valley Grocery Stores
Local Grocery Delivery: Brown Box Organics Co.
From the Osher Institute Community
Personal Writing SIG: Lori Postlethwait
Idaho Matters: Continuing Education for the “Intellectually Curious”
Personal Writing SIG: Celeste Miller
Artificial Intelligence and Art on March 7
Personal Writing SIG: Jan Mills
Personal Writing SIG: Mark Hurt
Spring 2024 Catalog Available Now!
Personal Writing SIG: Stacia Yoon
Personal Writing SIG: Bob Fontaine
Personal Writing SIG: Tom Baerwald
Personal Writing SIG: Bruce Goslovich
Osher at RIT Pfaudler Lecture Series: Herb Smith
Personal Writing SIG: Jud Roth
OLLI at George Mason University Author Discussions in July
Announcing the 2023 Osher Faculty Grant Award Recipients
Osher at RIT Pfaudler Lecture Series: Enigmatic Haiti
Spring 2023 Catalog Available Now!
Free Taste of OLLI Summer Speaker Series
Fall 2022 Catalog Available Now!
A New Era for the Osher Institute
New Osher SIG! Wednesday Morning Summer Social
New Osher Lecture Coming in May!
Announcing the 2022 Osher Faculty Grant Award Recipients
Register Now! Planetary Science Conference June 27-July 1
Northern Spain Trip With Travel Fever Tours
Osher Institute Faculty Grant 2022 Applications
Spring 2022 Catalog Available Now!
New Osher Special Event Added!
Pack Your Parachute: Tech Tip for May
Pack Your Parachute: Tech Tip for April
2021 Osher Faculty Grant Recipients
A Conversation With David Pogue: An Osher Special Event
Pack Your Parachute: Tech Tip for March
Osher Institute 2021 Faculty Grant Applications
Spring 2021 Catalog Available Now!
Idaho Matters Episode: Osher Institute
Meet the Advisory Board: Rainey Pieters
Osher Institute Hike: Polecat Gulch
Meet the Advisory Board: Ralph Bild
The Fall 2020 Catalog is Online!
Meet the Advisory Board: Rod McLean
Fall 2020 Updates and Registration
Fall 2020 Catalog Coming Soon!
Osher Institute Hike: Veteran’s Trailhead in Eagle
Meet the Advisory Board: Carol Delaney
Resources for Learning About Injustice and Racism in America
Osher Institute Hike: Hulls Gulch Interpretive Trail
Meet the Advisory Board: Merilee Marsh
Osher Institute Hike: Oregon Trail Historic Preserve
Meet the Advisory Board: Susan Gibson
Osher Institute Hike: Cottonwood Trail in Military Reserve
Meet the Advisory Board: Dennis Hall
Fall 2020 Registration Information
Meet the Advisory Board: Celeste Miller
2020 Osher Faculty Grant Recipients
Meet the Advisory Board: Russ Centanni
Meet the Advisory Board: Bae Emilson
Meet the Advisory Board: Chuck Folkner
Meet the Advisory Board: Cindy Anson
The Great Courses Available for Osher Institute Members
Meet the Advisory Board: Virginia Rivers
Meet the Advisory Board: Ben Simko