One Book 2018: The Sixth Extinction

We're back! It's a new semester and it's time for a new One Book. This semester, the PVCC One Book Program is reading The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Mass extinction neither began nor ended with the dinosaurs, and Kolbert demonstrates humanity's leading role in the sixth mass extinction happening all around us, right here and right now. Is your interest piqued? Read more about the book here in the Jessup Library catalog or on the One Book Program page.

As ever, mark your calendars. PVCC will be hosting events to celebrate this year's One Book. Here are three upcoming events:

Monday, September 17th is Meatless Monday, a global movement event whose current incarnation began in 2003 with health advocate Sid Lerner and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “One day a week, cut out meat” -- Meatless Monday applies this simple rule in an effort to improve global health. Want to join in? Head over to the Bolick Student Center from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and sign a pledge to forgo eating meat on this day in an effort to reduce your carbon footprint.

On Wednesday, September 19, cancer biologist and metascientist Dr. Timothy Errington, Ph.D., will be speaking. Science Club: Career Talks explores scientific reproducibility: "Can scientists find the same thing as other scientists?  Why or why not?  And what makes science good, robust and trustworthy (or not)?" Dr. Errington will be speaking from noon to 1 p.m. in Rm. M229.

Finally, Professor Joanna Vondrasek is leading a birding walk on Monday, September 24. Learn about the avian populations that call PVCC home (distinct from the student population who also call PVCC home) and how they're affected by a changing climate. Participants will meet in room M229 at noon for a 15 minute talk and then venture outside. Wear comfortable shoes!

You can learn about all of these events and more here.