Vandal Science Days, presented by University of Idaho’s College of Science, will offer several opportunities to indulge in a variety of science-based activities, socialize with professors and students and learn more about UI’s science program. This event will occur Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include intersecting workshops as part of the Lional Hampton Music Festival, though the week.
Vandal Science Days is in the Integrated Research and Innovation Center and is free to the public and welcomes all ages. There will be food, prizes, hands-on fossil digging and comet making. There will also be special presentations by faculty about arsenic usage in beauty products and archaeochemistry.
On Friday, presentations will be held all day. Beginning at 11 a.m. students will showcase “Virtual Realty Demos,” at 1 p.m. Claire Qualls will present “Arsenic For Health and Beauty and other dubious practices,” and at 2 p.m. geology undergrads will conclude with “Geology Top Model” fashion show.
Saturday’s presentation will start at 11 a.m. John Anderson is presenting “Virtual Realities for Sustainable Future: XR Application in Planetwalking Science” and at 1 p.m. Melia LaFleur will address “From Yellow Powder to Black Power and Archaeochemical Journey.”
In addition to this year’s Vandal Science Days, the Lional Hampton Jazz Festival will present various workshops diving into the intersections between science and music. On Thursday and Saturday at 10:15 A.M in Renfrew Hall 111, Professor Mark Nielsen will discuss “Math in the Music Scale” and the reasons behind the 12-tone scale out music is based upon.
On Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Renfrew 111 Professor Christine Berven and Marty Ytreberg will present “Making Music with Waves” and show how instruments create musical tones through standing waves.
The last workshop will be held on Saturday at 3:15 in Renfrew 111 where Professor Zack Etienne will share “Gravitational Waves: Jazz from the Cosmos.”