Tuesday, March 31 at 2pm
Goins Auditorium
Do reports of flu epidemics, Ebola outbreaks, and the resurgence of measles make you shiver with fear? Do you wonder how Knoxville officials would respond if an infectious disease broke out here?
Then join Amanda Thomas, an infection preventionist and RN with Covenant Health, when she delivers a talk titled “Community Response to Epidemics.”
Wednesday, March 25 from 1:30 - 2:30
Goins Auditorium & Streaming Live on Every Campus
Social Media: Fact & Fiction
Lawyer Chris W. McCarty will discuss the myths and realities
of social media participation, including the limits of free speech
and the elusiveness of online privacy.
Monday, November 14 at 4pm & Friday, November 21 at 9:40am
Goins Auditorium
What does “disabled” mean when a man with no legs can run faster than most people in the world?
From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
Thursday, Sept. 18
Bestselling author Mark Bowden will be at Pellissippi State Community College for a lecture and book signing. He is the author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War and The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, as well as an essayist in Pellissippi State’s 2014 Common Book, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013.
Bowden will visit classrooms during the day, then begin his public presentation at 7:30 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center of the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The book signing and a question-and-answer session follow the lecture.
Tickets for the presentation are $10 apiece. They will be available at www.pstcc.edu/tickets closer to the event. Because of limited seating, tickets will be limited to two per purchaser.
All movies are playing in the Goins Auditorium
Monday, November 14 at 4pm & Friday, November 21 at 9:40am
What does “disabled” mean when a man with no legs can run faster than most people in the world?
From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, the Pellissippi Campus Common Book, is available on reserve in the library and at campus ERCs for reading while on campus.
