Nye

In the five years that his eponymous show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, was on television, Nye picked up 28 Emmys and became known for his ability to help people understand the science around them. It didn't hurt, of course, that the scientist/engineer/inventor, once employed by Boeing, had made a career switch to being a comedy writer and performer.

Nye's topic will be climate change when he visits the Homewood campus on Tuesday, Oct. 23, as the sixth speaker in the 2007 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. The doors to Shriver Hall open at 7:30 p.m. for the talk, which begins at 8 p.m.

Co-sponsors of Nye's talk are the departments of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Biology, and Physics and Astronomy.

The remaining events in this year's symposium are a talk by actor/director/activist Edward James Olmos, on Nov. 8, and a performance by the political satire group the Capitol Steps, on Nov. 2. The theme of the symposium is Renewing American Culture: The Perspectives That Shape Our Identity.

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