Come November and this edition of Headliners, the 2020 election will have taken place and all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats in the US Senate, and the office of president of the United States will have been contested and decided. (We think.) Your guess is as good as ours as to what the post-election terrain will look like. Join us—post-vote—on November 5, when political scientist Dr. Kathryn Pearson will help us gather our collective senses and better understand where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and the election’s implications for governing in the years to come. Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Pearson, Associate Professor, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and recipient of the Morse Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota Headliners is produced by Lifelong Learning, a program of the College of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Professor Marc Hillmyer hightlights the work of the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers (headquartered at the University of Minnesota), where today’s research discoveries are becoming the packaging, construction, household, clothing, automobile, and energy materials of tomorrow. Dr. Marc Hillmyer, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, and director, Center for Sustainable Polymers, Department of Chemistry, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. Headliners is produced by Lifelong Learning, a program of the College of Continuing and Professional Studies.

A Candid Conversation with Neel Kashkari, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

What's on Baby's Mind? The Developmental Origins of Adult Mental Health and Disease with Dr. Michael K. Georgieff, Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Child Psychology; Executive Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota

Beyond Extinction: On Nature's Value, Biodiversity Trends and Causes for Hope with Dr. Kate Brauman, Lead scientist, Global Water Initiative, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota

How Neuroscience Will Revolutionize the Law with Dr. Frances X. Shen, Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, faculty member, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

The US Supreme Court: Still the Least Dangerous Branch? with Dr. Timothy Johnson, Morse Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Minnesota