Event Recap- Ephtalks: Ideas About the World And Beyond

On Thursday, March 26th, the NY Ephs hosted Ephtalks: Ideas About the World And Beyond at the Williams Club. We invited three distinguished Williams College professors to speak on their topics of expertise for 20 minutes and offered a Q&A for our audience. 

Political Scientist Cheryl Shanks spoke on the civil wars in West Africa and that region's economic isolation from the world playing a role in the Ebola outbreak. She argued that the Ebola epidemic was more of a political rather than medical problem in her talk, Pandemic Panic: The Biology and Politics of Ebola. Physicist Tiku Majumder answered the questions of what made a "good" clock and how the "GPS" system works in his talk Are We There Yet? A Brief History of Clocks, Navigation and Cold Atoms. Lastly, Psychologist Catherine Stroud spoke on how to cope with stress and negative emotions in her talk, Rethinking Stress: The Causes and Consequences of How Your Mind Works.