Join the Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for a seminar tomorrow "New Approaches to the Exploration of the Spatial and the Temporal Patterns of Crime" as part of the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Naru Shiode, a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and Geographic Information Science at Kingston University, January 17, from 5-6:15 p.m. via 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 Yongwan Chun, a professor and the program head of the Geospatial Information Sciences program at the University of Texas at Dallas, who will give a presentation on “Uncertainty in Spatial Analysis: Visualization, Measurement, and Modeling.” This seminar will take place on Friday, December 1, 2023, from 3:15–4:30 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 Daniel Sui, a professor of geography and public and international affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), who will give a presentation on “Coping with the Age of Paradox: Exploring the Role of a Quantum Perspective.” This seminar will take place on Friday, November 17, from 3:15–4:30 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 Lan Deng, a Professor of Urban & Regional Planning in Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. She also serves as the North American Editor for the international journal Housing Studies. The lecture will take place on November 10 at 3:15 p.m. on Zoom.

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Join the Social Science’s Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Xiaochu Hu, a research manager of workforce studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges and serves as the chair of the Health Workforce Interest Group Advisory Committee of AcademyHealth. This event is open to the public and will take place on Friday, November 3, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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Join the of Social Sciences Colloquium at the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Eric Sheppard, a Distinguished Research Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Geography at UCLA, who will give a talk on “Understanding Capitalist Globalization: A Spatio-Temporal Perspective.” This event is open to the public and will take place on October 27, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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The Department of Social Sciences presents its Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Weslynne Ashton, professor at the Stuart School of Business with a joint appointment with the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, who will give a talk on “Crafting a Just, Equitable and Circular Food System.” This event is open to the public and will take place on October 20, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. at Michael Paul Galvin Tower (IIT Tower) IT 1F6-1.

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The Department of Social Sciences presents its Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Bo Zhao, an associate professor and a director of the Humanistic GIS Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, who will give a talk on “Humanistic GIS: Toward a Research Agenda.” This event is open to the public and will take place on October 13 from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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The Department of Social Sciences presents its Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series featuring guest speaker Pengfei Li, an associate professor of strategy and global management at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, Canada, who will give a talk on “Achilles’ Heel: Architecture Change and Competitive Disadvantage of Geographical Clustering.” This event is open to the public and will take place on October 6 from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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The Department of Social Sciences presents a Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Bruce Newbold, a professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Society and associate dean of the Faculty of Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who will give a presentation on “Assessing Older Adult Mobility Using Wearable Technology.” This event will take place on Friday, September 29, from 3:15–4:30 p.m. over Zoom.

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