Ram Talks

Dates and Times

• Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024  5pm - 6:30pm
• Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024  5pm - 6:30pm
• Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024  5pm - 6:30pm

Location

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Details

Bring your curiosity and energy, grab a cold one, and spend Wednesday happy hour with Ram Talks. Explore, learn, and create with CSU experts downtown at the new Fort Collins Welcome Center.

Ram Talks are a mashup of CSU expertise and active community conversation, unleashing the creative insights and eye-opening shakeup that comes from taking a fresh look at the world around us.

Sept 4 “Hidden hurdles – Inventing new approaches to old problems by re-thinking systems”
Jeni Cross – Professor

Sept 18 “Elephant names: What we can learn from how elephants communicate”
George Wittemyer – Professor

Oct 2 “Taking on the challenge of toxic polarization: better conversations in a hyper-partisan world”
Martin Carcasson – Professor

Oct 16 Pre-Halloween special: “Morbid Trickery – What science is learning from CSU’s Corpse Flower”
Jessica Metcalf – Professor
Valerie Seitz – Postdoctoral Fellow
Tammy Brenner – Plant Growth Facilities Manager

Nov 6 “Muscles Alive! – Your electric muscles are movers and sensors”
Brian Tracy – Associate Professor

Nov 20 “CSU’s super-laser technology and the quest for fusion energy”
Ken Reardon – Professor and Associate Dean for Research

Presented by Colorado State University in partnership with Visit Fort Collins

This event is produced by an outside organization and is unaffiliated with the Downtown Development Authority. The DDA website serves as a marketing outlet for events and promotions occurring inside the Downtown boundary. For questions regarding the event, please contact the event producer.