{"id":10240,"date":"2008-09-24T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=10240"},"modified":"2013-06-24T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T22:49:22","slug":"nau-festival-of-science-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-festival-of-science-events\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Festival of Science events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU is involved in a number of Flagstaff Festival of Science events beyond Mountain Science &amp; Engineering Day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly remodeled NAU Campus Observatory will be open for public viewing and will feature its new 20-inch telescope from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 26, 27, 28 and Oct. 3, 4 and 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NAU is a sponsor of the Night Visions III exhibit at Coconino Center for Arts, celebrating Flagstaff&#8217;s 50th anniversary of the world&#8217;s first international Dark Skies City, which opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Judy Springer<\/strong>, a research specialist in NAU&#8217;s Ecological Restoration Institute, will discuss &#8220;Creating Moon Gardens for Mystical Nighttime Enjoyment&#8221; at 4 p.m. Sept. 28 at Coconino Center for the Arts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Brumbaugh<\/strong>, a professor of geology at NAU, will discuss &#8220;Earthquakes: From Quaklets to Megakillers&#8221; at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Museum of Northern Arizona.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sylvester Allred<\/strong>, a lecturer in biological sciences, will discuss tassel-eared squirrels at 4 p.m. Sept. 30 at Lowell Observatory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NAU will show a new PBS film,\u00a0<em>Hot Spots<\/em>, about places in the world where animals are on the verge of extinction. Scheduled for release in 2009, the film airs at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 in the Cline Library Assembly Hall and will be introduced by director Michael Tobias and\u00a0<strong>Con Slobodchikoff<\/strong>, a professor in biological sciences at NAU, who will discuss the need for the global and local conservation of prairie dogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J. Judson Wynne<\/strong>, an NAU graduate student, will present &#8220;Caves on Earth and Mars: The Search for Life&#8221; at 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at Lowell Observatory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bee Valvo<\/strong>, from Cline Library Special Collections and Archives, will discuss &#8220;The 1917-1918 Flu Epidemic in Flagstaff&#8221; at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at Riordan Mansion State Historic Park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-festival-of-science-events\/\">NAU is involved in a number of Flagstaff Festival of Science events beyond Mountain Science &amp; Engineering Day: The newly remodeled NAU Campus Observatory will be open for public viewing and will feature its new 20-inch telescope from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 26, 27, 28 and Oct. 3, 4 and 5. NAU is a&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":10241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}