Events
C2ST achieves its mission by hosting relevant, independent, and credible public STEM programs across all scientific fields at locations throughout Chicagoland. With nine out of ten program attendees’ expectations fulfilled, our supporters agree that C2ST is accomplishing its mission of increasing the public’s understanding of science and technology.
Miss an event? Anyone across the globe can access our STEM program library by visiting our YouTube channel, C2ST TV. Also be sure to follow us on Facebook, where we livestream many of our programs.
Check out below what programs we have planned and discover what we’ve hosted in the past.
The following testimonial from a C2ST supporter demonstrates the scope of our programming:
“A few years ago you hosted a talk called “The Science of Addiction”…I am a mother of a son who has been battling heroin addiction (substance abuse disorder)…As a person who taught and believed in science, I was frustrated going to family meetings where I was told repeatedly we were powerless. Then I attended the lecture hosted by C2ST and asked the question of what we could do to help support their research…Thank you so much! This lecture gave me direction and helped me feel like I had a purpose.”
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March 12, 2014
Illinois Institute of Technology, McCormick Tribune Campus Center, McCloska Auditorium
3241 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
The safety of the food supply has emerged as an important and complex global public health, social, and political issue. Although accurate statistics on the scope of foodborne illness are lacking, the most recent estimates published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that as many as 48 million cases, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths are caused by foodborne illness each year in the U.S.
December 6, 2012
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Screening Room 201
915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
Watch a screening of the film “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russell Crowe and join University of Chicago experts in a discussion of the impact of John F. Nash Jr.’s work as well as the challenges he faced. Nash was the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for his landmark work on the mathematics of game theory.
December 4, 2012
Lincoln Hall, Northwestern University School of Law
375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology and the Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center Present:
“Alzheimer’s and Aging: Our Fragile Minds“
December 1, 2011
Northwestern University, Chicago Campus, Hughes Auditorium
303 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, United States
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
Experts say that the major contributing factors to the obesity epidemic are complex and multiple, but lack of access to healthy, affordable food (“food deserts”), and uptake even when it is accessible, and insufficient physical activity are believed to be the most significant. Read more…
December 1, 2011
Northwestern University, Chicago Campus, Hughes Auditorium
303 E Superior St, Chicago, IL, United States
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
Part 2 of the program features keynote speaker Bechara Choucair, M.D., Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, who will highlight the obesity problem and present his vision for a healthier Chicago. Read more…
November 16, 2010
Northwestern University Chicago Campus, Thorne Auditorium
375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States
Program Series:
Health and Wellness
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology & Children’s Memorial Research Center Present:
“The Immortal Life of HEnrietta LAcks”
Lecture, Book signing and Dinner with
Best-Selling Author Rebecca Skloot
Featuring Special Guests, Veteran Journalist Bill Kurtis
and WLS TV’s John Garcia,
on November 16