College of Integrative Sciences

Please visit our main calendar to find appropriate events across the sciences. If you have an event to share with the CIS, please contact Anika (adane@wesleyan.edu).

This Week's Seminars: 

Astronomy Colloquia, Monday, March 2, 4:30pm, Van Vleck Observatory

Dr. Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University

“The Complexity of Black Hole Masses and Spins” 

Biology and MB&B Seminar Series, Wednesday March 4, 12:10pm-1:10pm, Exley 58

Oluwarotimi Folorunso, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Host: Padilla-Benavides

Sturm Lecture, Tuesday, March 3, 8:00pm, Ring Hall

Dr. Vicky Kalogera: “Listening to Cosmic Collisions: Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and the Rise of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”. The lecture is at 8pm in Ring Hall with a reception to follow at Van Vleck Observatory.

Physics Colloquia, Thursday, March 5, 11:50am-1:10pm, Exley 58

Gregory Kestin, Harvard University

AI-Powered Pedagogy: Research-Based Insights for the Classroom

Data For Good Alumni Speakers' Series, Thursday, March 5, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Allbritton 304

"Critical Data Science" - Adina Gitomar, Data Storytelling Strategist, Square

NSM Faculty Luncheon, Friday, March 6, 11:50am-1:00pm, Woodhead Lounge

Joe Coolon and Anika Dane, College of Integrative Sciences

2026 Research in Science Summer Program: Expansion and Expectations

Pizza and drinks will be available starting at 11:50am, talk at noon.

Chemistry Colloquia, Friday, February 27, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Hall-Atwater 84

Dr. Mike LeVine, Genesis Molecular AI

Dr. Computer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI For Science

Host: Erika Taylor

This Week's Workshops: 

Space Night, Tuesday, March 3, 8:00pm, Van Vleck Observatory

Learn about what’s up in the night sky at Space Nights, beginning with a half-hour interactive presentation by department students and/or faculty on space news or recent astronomy discoveries, followed by observing through telescopes when it’s clear. Events are aimed at high school level and above, but all visitors are welcome. Registration is not required. Events take place during the academic year on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Spring 2026 Schedule: February 4th, 11th, 18th, & 25th; March 3rd (Tuesday) & 25th; April 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, & 29th.

In the Beginning: Paleontology and the Alchemy of Deep Time: a lecture/performance with Nicolas Baird

Wednesday, March 4, 12:15

Pizza lunch served at 1pm (please RSVP on the CFA event page to help us get a head count).

Fossils reveal more than any other objects about the deep history of life on Earth. In this lecture/performance, the audience will be guided through the gardens of time, pausing to admire spectacular fossils as Nicolas Baird illuminates the complex processes of evolution. Drawing on both art and science, the experience invites viewers to imagine the world before it became the world we know, and the worlds before that. 

Nicolas Baird is a paleobiologist, artist, writer, and performer based in New York City, currently pursuing a doctorate in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Their work across both art and science frames the world as a network of strange kin. Through photography, poetry, and performance, Baird explores themes of mutability and adaptation. In their scientific research, they look deep into the past to understand how bodies, landscapes, and climates have shaped one another over time. They bring these threads together as co-director of the Institute of Queer Ecology, a continuously evolving collaborative organism that creates and commissions artworks as tools for imagining and building multi-species futures.

Presented by the Creative Campus Initiative of the Center for the Arts, which supports cross-disciplinary collaborations that center the arts as a way of teaching, learning, and knowing.