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Science Café 2017 Events List



STFK Science Cafe Sunday, December 10, 2017 (2:00 P.M.)

Topic: "African Elephants"

Presenter: Becca Wyatt
Elephant Lead Keeper
Zoo Knoxville

Location: Ijams Nature Center (in the Miller Building)
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Sunday, November 5, 2017

Topic: "Nuclear Reactor Safety:
What we learned from the Fukushima Accident"

Presenter: Juan J. Carbajo
Research Staff member
Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Sunday, October 15, 2017

Topic: "Red Wolf"

Presenter: Kelly Cox
Assistant Director of Animal Care and Conservation
Zoo Knoxville

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Sunday, September 24, 2017

Topic: "Fantastic Syzygies: When Celestial
Bodies Align"

Presenter: Dave McCallister
Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of
Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee
AAS Astronomy Ambassador

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Sunday, August 6, 2017

Topic: "Observing the Eclipse"
(Encore presentation)

Presenter: Dr. Richard Gelderman
Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy
Director of the Hardin Planetarium
Eclipse Evangelist at Western Kentucky University

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Saturday, August 5, 2017

Topic: "Observing the Eclipse"

Presenter: Dr. Richard Gelderman
Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy
Director of the Hardin Planetarium
Eclipse Evangelist at Western Kentucky University

Location: The Town of Farragut Community Room
11408 Municipal Center Drive, Farragut, TN

(The entrance door and parking for the Community Room is located on the right side of the building as one faces the main entrance.)

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Topic: "Fluvial landforms, wind-formed deposits,
and sedimentary processes of Titan"

Presenter: Devon Marjorie Burr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Planetary Geology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Location: Zoo Knoxville

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Topic: "What Plants Talk About"

Presenter: Chris Adams
Assistant Professor of Biology—Botany
Berea College

Location: Zoo Knoxville

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Thursday, June 8, 2017

Topic: "Totality: The Great American Eclipse of 2017"

Presenter: Mark Littmann, Ph.D.
Author of the new book Totality: The
Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
and Professor, Hill Chair of Excellence in
Science Writing, University of Tennessee

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Thursday, May 11, 2017

Topic: "Malayan Tigers"

Presenter: Petty Grieve
Grasslands and Asian Trek Curator
Zoo Knoxville

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Thursday, April 13, 2017

Topic: "Animal Behavior and Communication"
(Encore presentation)

Presenter: Todd M. Freeberg
Associate Head
Department of Psychology Adjunct Faculty
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville



STFK Science Cafe Thursday, March 9, 2017

Topic: "Pluto and Beyond"

Presenter: Dr. Joshua P. Emery
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville

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STFK Science Cafe Thursday, February 9, 2017

Topic: "Behavior and Welfare of Dairy Cows"

Presenter: Peter Krawczel
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Science
University of Tennessee

Location: Ijams Nature Center
2915 Island Home Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville

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STFK Science Cafe Saturday, January 21, 2017

Topic: "Animal Behavior and Communication"

Presenter: Todd M. Freeberg
Associate Head
Department of Psychology Adjunct Faculty
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Location: Zoo Knoxville

Venue: This is an "STFK Science Café" event
presented by Spirit and Truth Fellowship of Knoxville

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