Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Karen Chapple, a director of the School of Cities and a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, who will present “Making a Difference Through Urban Data Science.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 10, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Can Chen, an associate professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. This seminar will take place on Wednesday, April 3, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Fahui Wang, Cyril and Tutta Vetter Alumni Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, and associate dean of the Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School at Louisiana State University (LSU). This seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 27, from 5–6:15 p.m. in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center, as well as online.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Ola Johansson, a professor and chair in the Department of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, who will give a presentation on “Creative Economies in Urban Policy and Planning.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 20, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom. 

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Michael Dunford, an emeritus professor in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, who will give a presentation on “World Geography, World Orders, and World Development: Societal and Civilizational Models.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 6, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Thomas Walstrum, a senior business economist in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, from 5–6:15 p.m. in room 111 of the Pritzker Science Center and over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Yihong Yuan, an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University, who will give a presentation on “Modeling Human Mobility Patterns from Big Geodata—What Are We Missing?” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Nicholas A. Phelps, a professor and chair of urban planning and associate dean international at The University of Melbourne, who will give a presentation on “Planning with Extended Urbanization: Elements of A Strategic Spatial Planning Vocabulary.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, February 14, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Natalie Boodram, a senior technical officer at the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), who will give a presentation on “Caribbean Science-Policy Interfaces—A Case Study of the Grenada National Ecosystem Assessment.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 31, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Alessandro Rigolon, an associate professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, who will give a presentation on “Achieving Green Space Equity: Projects, policies, and Systems Change.” This seminar will take place on Wednesday, January 24, from 5–6:15 p.m. over Zoom.

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