Participants in last year’s March for Science in Mobile may remember our interactive booth, where you could text your answer to the question “Science is important to me because…” and have it displayed at the event along with all the other answers. We’ve compiled a selection of the responses into a graphic. How do YOU answer this question?
Today we’re launching a fundraising campaign at Kind.Fund to help pay the cost of the traffic safety officers we need to close the streets in order for our march to take place.
Right now on the day of the national March for Science event, March for Science Mobile is the ONLY registered satellite in Alabama and for hundreds of miles along the Gulf coast. Help show the world that science advocacy is important to the people in our region!
NEW by request: Classic V-Neck shirts.
Visit our artist shop on Threadless to get your March for Science Mobile merchandise before event day! Threadless is a print-on-demand service, so your items are made and then shipped after you place your order – no waiting for a campaign to end. Keep in mind that a couple of days are need for printing, and then you’ll need to add shipping time.
Orders of $45 or more will receive FREE SHIPPING (Use Code “SCIENCEMARCH181f16ad”) – so go in with a friend or order for the whole family!
Check size charts before ordering – women’s fit shirts in particular run small! This year we have kids’ sizes AND onesies, too.
All sales support A Day for Science 2018.
We are extremely pleased to announce that A Day for Science 2018 is sponsored in part by the generous support of:
Science lovers will not want to miss this talk by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Science Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert on her book The Sixth Extinction.
Kolbert’s book is a rare, perspective-shifting mashup of geology, history, and biology that allows us to see the role of Homo sapiens – over hundreds of thousands of years – in the current mass extinction event. Humanity’s exceptional ability to adapt, find new resources, and modify our environment has resulted in the acceleration of natural cycles of change, and brought about multiple significant global changes on a scale unprecedented in planetary history. It’s a fascinating read. It is exactly this kind of jarring re-imagining of ourselves that can enable us to use these wonderful creative brains of ours to inspire and enact change in the future.
In an interview with USA News, Kolbert said,
“Actually, what we need now isn’t hope. What we need is courage. The issue is whether or not we’re going to do anything at all. Or, are we going to rise to a very enormous challenge,” she said. “I talk to college students the same way I talk to their parents and grandparents. This is the world you’re inheriting. Unfortunately, you guys are going to have to deal with the consequences, and the consequences are cumulative. I tell them they should be pretty annoyed, and they should make some noise.”
The talk will be held at the University of South Alabama on April 4, 2018 at 7:00pm at the Student Center Ballroom. A book signing and reception will follow. The talk is sponsored by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing, the English Department, the Biology Department, Phi Kappa Phi, and The Sustainability Committee.
