Tree Time Dr. Claire Campbell4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PAHistory Prof. Claire Campbell addresses the history of the local timber industry.

Tree Time with John Lantz4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PAJohn Lantz, luthier at JR Violins, discusses types of woods used in instrument building.

Interested in Government? Pathways within public service and government will be discussed.

Dean Bernadatte Gilbert from the Penn State College of Medicine will be presenting about the program and will be joined by a MS1 student who is a Bucknell graduate.

As part of the Bucknell Humanities Center's Themed-Year-Programming, "Black Appalachia and the Search for Nowhere" we are hosting a Film Screening: THE EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB, followed by a virtual Q and A session from the director, William Isom II after the viewing.Film screening located in the Gallery Theatre, ELC 3rd Fl. The Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) was founded in 1969 by Appalachian families who migrated out of the coalfields to mostly northern cities. This organization, with chapters all over the country, was established to provide continued connection and reunion for families, friends, churches and schools within the Appalachian diaspora.https://www.blackinappalachia.org/eksc (https://www.blackinappalachia.org/eksc)

BIPP & DCDS present: Data Quality for Public Policy4:30 PM to 6:00 PM116 - Hislop Family Auditorium A Zoom option will also be offered: Meeting ID: 998 0170 1257 Password: 210448 Co-Sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) and The Dominguez Center for Data Science (DCDS)

Tree Time with Michael Palko4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PAMichael Palko, former PA forester, will talk about his experience using trees as a fuel source in schools and hospitals and forest regeneration.

Philosophy Colloquium, On October 23, at 4:30 p.m. Karen Ng, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, will be a guest speaker for the Philosophy Department in the HMH Great Room.In this paper Karen Ng will combine insights from Hegel and Marx to argue for a historical-materialist approach to social freedom. Against views of freedom that depend only on institutional recognition, Ng proposes a broader view that combines social reproduction and our relationship with the environment in order to outline how social freedom is a process that we must self-consciously realize and continually reproduce.

Alumni who majored in International Relations will share about their career paths in different industries, including business, government, and nonprofit.

Alumnus John Weierbach will discuss having a private prosthodontics practice.

The China Institute invites you to a talk by Professor Jennifer Hunt of Rutgers University, former Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Her lecture, Immigration and Innovation, will explore how immigrants contribute to new ideas, technologies, and economic growth. This event is open to all and welcomes anyone interested in the connections between people, policy, and innovation.

Writer-in-Residence Rebecca Makkai will present a craft talk on writing fiction. Please feel free to bring a lunch.Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Have Some Questions For You (https://rebeccamakkai.com/work/i-have-some-questions-for-you/) as well as four other works of fiction. Her last novel, The Great Believers, one of the New York Times' Best Books of the 21st Century (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html#book-80), was a finalist for both the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the 2018 National Book Award, and was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College, Northwestern University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago (https://www.storystudiochicago.org/).

Plan to attend a prep session if you are registered to attend the 11/7 Rock Lititz Experience Live Event. Career Exploration Conference Logistics and details of the trip and fair will be shared. If you are taking Bucknell bus transportation, bring your $20 CASH bus deposit which will be returned when you get on the bus. Bus will depart campus at 7:30 am on Friday, November 7 and will return around 8:30 pm.

Bio:  Gaurav J. Pathania is an assistant professor of Sociology and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Gaurav has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of Southern California. His first book, The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019), explores student resistance in higher education in India. Currently, his research focuses on the socio-political activism of the South Asian diaspora in the US and UK. Dr. Pathania serves as a deputy editor for South Asia Research, a journal published by SOAS, University of London. He is also an anti-caste poet and activist, community organizer with his social justice writings featured in The Boston Globe and he has been interviewed by PBS and BBC on diaspora issues in the United States. Gaurav won the national poetry award for 2016 organized by the Poetry Society of India. His anti-caste poetry appears in J-Caste journal published by Brandeis University. Gaurav made his Hollywood debut in Ava DuVernay's film ORIGIN, portraying Dr. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution. Gaurav and his team have embarked on a series of publications, including Caste & Race with Bloomsbury Publishing.

Tree Time with Dr. Tyler Yamin4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Elaine Langone Center, top floor701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PAMusic Dept. Visiting Assist. Professor, Dr. Tyler Yamin, will share findings from his doctoral work which focused on the sounds of gibbons in the forests of Borneo.

CSREG Panel Discussion Moderated by Soundarya Chidambaram

Artist Talk with Marie CochranSunday, November 02, at 3 p.m.Iron Front Event Space,434 Market Street #301, Lewisburg, PA 17837Join us for a discussion with Marie Cochran, a native of Toccoa in the Northeast Georgia Mountains. She is the founding curator of the Affrilachian Artist Project, which celebrates the intersection of cultures in Appalachia. This event is presented in collaboration with Bucknell's Critical Black Studies program.

Todd Wildman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddwildman1/) of Preluved Guru (https://www.prelovedguru.com/) will provide today's talk via Zoom. Lunch is provided. Sign up here! (https://forms.gle/mbDFNEUBZ3woRMEF7)

Plan to attend a prep session if you are registered to attend the 11/7 Rock Lititz Experience Live Event. Career Exploration Conference Logistics and details of the trip and fair will be shared. If you are taking Bucknell bus transportation, bring your $20 CASH bus deposit which will be returned when you get on the bus. Bus will depart campus at 7:30 am on Friday, November 7 and will return around 8:30 pm.

Generative AI tools are a game-changer for complex data science projects. They can accelerate a project from 0 to 80% complete in a remarkably short amount of time, but the final 20% still demands the skills of a human data scientist to create a robust, nuanced, and context-specific solution. In this talk, I will walk through several projects I have completed with the help of large language models. With each project, I will show you how to construct tasks for AI and which components require human expertise. My goal is to help you think through the role of the human in data science work and the AI skills you should be developing while you are here at Bucknell and how these skills will prepare you to adapt and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world after you leave Bucknell.