CASE Kickoff Event Featuring David Epstein and Carol LaFayette

The ninth annual Creativity in the Arts and Sciences Event (CASE) will take place at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Presented by the UF Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science for Life Program and UF College of the Arts, CASE features science research posters, 2-D/3-D art exhibits, film, and dance/music/theatre performances.

The CASE Kickoff Event will take place Friday, January 30 from 5:45 – 7:30 p.m. in the McKnight Brain Institute DeWeese Auditorium Room LG 101-A on UF’s campus. David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene and a reporter at ProPublica, will present “Nurturing Athletic Creativity: Why We Need More Rogers and Fewer Tigers.” Carol LaFayette, professor in the Department of Visualization and director of the Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A&M University will present “Steps to an Ecology of Networked Knowledge and Innovation: Enabling new forms of collaboration among sciences, engineering, arts, and design.” Attendees are invited to stay after the presentations for a reception with refreshments. 

Room #

DeWeese Auditorium Room LG 101-A

Address

1149 Newell Drive
Gainesville
FL 32611