Join us for an exciting series delving into the mysteries of wine beginning Tuesday, March 12th.  Hosted by Advanced Sommelier and Wine Educator, Ashley Broshious, as we learn how to blind taste and take a tour of the most iconic wine producing countries.

We begin with unraveling the secrets of how to taste like a professional and will learn proper techniques to help you identify what is in the glass.

3/19/24 Week 2: will discuss the major wine growing regions of France and how this country has led the way for centuries as a powerhouse for high quality wines.  We will taste wines from four of these iconic regions and build from the knowledge we learned in week 1.

3/26/24 Week 3: will take us to Italy where we will go beyond the Italian standards such as Chianti Classico.  Be ready to be surprised at the unexpected styles and quality found all over this vast country.  These four wines will please any palate and take you directly to Italy.

4/2/24 Week 4: will focus on the history lore, trials and tribulations of the California wine industry.  We will taste classic wines paired next to Avant Garde winemakers.  This class will surely make you think twice about California wines. The cost is $160 for whole course or $40 a class.

3/6/24 Lecture 1: Introduction to AI in Healthcare: We will take some time at the beginning of this lecture to introduce ourselves and describe our background and current work in the area. We will then provide an introductory overview of AI and its role in Healthcare. Our goal throughout the entire lecture series will be to make these talks as interactive as possible.

3/13/24 Lecture 2: Types of AI in healthcare with special attention to NLP; This lecture will delve deeper into the subdisciplines of AI in healthcare with special attention to natural language processing (NLP).

3/20/24 Lecture 3: The Ethical implications of AI in Healthcare. This lecture will discuss the ethical challenges and dilemmas surrounding AI and healthcare such as data diversity, bias, trust and transparency amongst other topics.

3/27/24 Lecture 4: Final Round-up. This final lecture will be a brief review of major themes we've discussed with an open discussion reviewing topics of interest we have collected from the audience during the previous lectures.

Join us for an exciting series delving into the mysteries of wine beginning Tuesday, March 12th.  Hosted by Advanced Sommelier and Wine Educator, Ashley Broshious, as we learn how to blind taste and take a tour of the most iconic wine producing countries.

We begin with unraveling the secrets of how to taste like a professional and will learn proper techniques to help you identify what is in the glass.

3/19/24 Week 2: will discuss the major wine growing regions of France and how this country has led the way for centuries as a powerhouse for high quality wines.  We will taste wines from four of these iconic regions and build from the knowledge we learned in week 1.

3/26/24 Week 3: will take us to Italy where we will go beyond the Italian standards such as Chianti Classico.  Be ready to be surprised at the unexpected styles and quality found all over this vast country.  These four wines will please any palate and take you directly to Italy.

4/2/24 Week 4: will focus on the history lore, trials and tribulations of the California wine industry.  We will taste classic wines paired next to Avant Garde winemakers.  This class will surely make you think twice about California wines. The cost is $160 for whole course or $40 a class.

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All classes will take place on Wednesdays, April 3- April 24 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm in Blackmer Hall

Early world religions didn't have much of an ethical component; the emphasis was more on making sacrifices to deities in hope of favors or to prevent divine displeasure.  And then came the "Axial Age," a period when, across Eurasia, some very diverse cultures decided that God/the gods cared about how human beings treated each other, with profound consequences for human societies.  For the four weeks of this class, we will examine four great world religions that developed from the Axial Age and how this new moral component continues to echo to the present day.

4/3 Week I: Asian Experiments.  The focus will be on how Buddhism grew from Hinduism, as Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) came to grips with the poverty and suffering of his society.  We will also look at the semi-religion of Confucianism for comparison. 4/ 10 Week II: Mediterranean Melting Pots: Judaism and Zoroastrianism learned much from each other, and by c. 500 BCE both were teaching that God cares how we treat our neighbors.  At about the same time, Greek philosophers began exploring the same issues, adding a moral component at least to elites among Greek polytheists. 4/17 Week III: Transforming the Roman World: How Christianity made a difference.  There's a lot to live up to when the founder of your religion allows himself to be killed for you.  In this week, we will examine how early Christian communities internalized the moral implications of their new religion, gradually reshaping Roman society in the process. 4/ 24 Week IV: The Prophet's Social Message.  Muhammad grew up on an Arabian Peninsula under massive social stress.  His teaching has two key, intermeshed components: submission to God's will, and care for your fellow humans.  Early Islam produced a social safety net that energized and transformed the Near and Middle East (and beyond). $25 a class or $100 for series