Collins Memorial Library is hosting a Zine Open House in the West Reading Room.  Make your own Zine! Add to the community Zine! Browse our Zine Collection.

Guest Speaker Maria Cunningham at 1:15.  Snacks will be available.

Rana M. Jaleel is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at University of California, Davis. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University, a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013-2015, Dr. Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. 

The Daedalus Lecture Series carves out a space for academic discussion, offering both a platform for sharing innovative work and the opportunity to come together as a diverse scholarly community. Rather than a teaching lecture, the presentations are conceived as a way to converse with and learn from one another in ways that enrich our community and broaden our interdisciplinary knowledge. Daedalus Lectures are intended to facilitate the sharing of research among colleagues.

All members of the campus and community are invited to the Fall 2026 Swope Lecture on Tuesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Schneebeck Concert Hall.  This fall's Swope Lecturer is Mathew S. Nosanchuk, the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Law at George Washington University.

Simplistic and inaccurate stories about the history of science are common. How can more complicated and accurate histories improve our ability to navigate issues that concern science in the present? This talk will take on common yet historically inaccurate tales about Charles Darwin to illustrate why doing history with close attention to both context and primary sources is important.

Historian and author Marie Vallejo shares her research into the making of her ground-breaking book “Dauntless,” an account of the heretofore untold stories of pre-WW2 Filipino-American immigrants and how men working in the fields of California and Hawaii, the canneries of Alaska and Washington, serving in wealthy homes or attending college transitioned into the First and Second Filipino Infantry Regiments, the Congressional Gold Medal American fighting force which would infiltrate their homeland, occupied by the Imperial Japanese forces immediately following Pearl Harbor.

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Jeenie M Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience and Professor Biology here at UPS, will give his talk on Brain-Body Connection Intuition and Insight as part of the Thompson Hall Science and Math Seminar Series. 

All THSMS events are free and open to the public.

Professor Reiko Hillyer (History, Lewis & Clark College) will give a lecture on her recent book, A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States. Published by Duke University Press, the book "focuses on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits to examine the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to transcend prison boundaries.

Mochitsuki, or traditional mochi pounding, is a thousand-year-old Japanese ceremony. Come to see a live demonstration, including hands-on participation!

We will be trying three to four different types of high-class Japanese-style teas. You are invited to taste, learn, and explore through this demonstration hosted by Professor Mikiko Ludden.