Southern California Science Cafe Grows by 500% in a Month
Irvine (ContentDesk) November 4, 2005 -- The Southern California Sigma Xi Science Cafe announced today that, in the period between Monday, September 19, and Monday, October 31, membership increased from 12 members to 60 members, a 500% increase.The Science Cafe, hosted by UC Irvine grad student, Brian Hart, is a place at the intersection of science and life where ordinary folk can mix and mingle with scholars and the like-minded.
You don't need to be a brainiac to join us over coffee or food at your favorite haunt.
Science Cafe is a place where scientific research and lattes converge, and one can plop down and get a little more insight into the science behind current events.Science Cafe events are held focusing on a variety of topics, from Stem Cells to Fuel Cells, Dinosaurs to Women in Science, and Nanotech to Hurricanes.
Members range from retired English professors to political science students, to wives and homemakers to shoe salesmen.
"I've joined because the events are so interesting to me and my children," says Kathie Allen, who was the 50th member to join The Science Cafe.
Last Saturday, October 29, at 3:00 PM, The Science Cafe held a special event focusing on hurricanes, which are in all the buzz today.
What causes hurricanes?
Why are they so destructive?
Why was New Orleans socked by Katrina?
What made that city so especially vulnerable?
In the event, Science Cafe participants gathered near the in-store Cafe of the Barnes & Noble store in Metro Pointe, next door to South Coast Plaza, in Costa Mesa.
Participants first watched a short video clip from the new PBS series, "NOVA scienceNOW," on Hurricanes, and then participants heard from John Abatzoglou, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine's Department of Earth System Science.
Abatzoglou is studying weather and tropical storms under the guidance of Dr.
Gudrun Magnusdottir.At The Science Cafe, events are free and open to the public.
Science Cafe is made possible with support from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the UCI and Orange County chapters of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
Sigma Xi (pronounced like "xylophone"), known for publishing the magazine, "American Scientist," is devoted to the promotion of research in science, with 512 chapters throughout the country and around the world.
Science Cafe is also developed in partnership with the producers of PBS' "NOVA scienceNOW" series, at WGBH-TV Boston.
For more information on Science Cafe, or to join, visit www.socal-sciencecafe.org/..
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