Lunch & Learn with KC Cole

This Spring, UW Honors will host an exciting series of Lunch & Learn conversations in the Honors suite (MGH 211). These casual events aim to foster lively discussion and community connection. We encourage you to bring your lunch and take an hour away from the chaos of Spring quarter to eat and chat about interesting topics with your Honors community.

In conversation with UW Honors Program Director, Dr. Stephanie Smallwood, science writer and author of best-selling books on math and physics KC Cole will continue a dialogue begun last fall at the Honors Global Challenges: Interdisciplinary Thinking event, where KC was a featured speaker on the theme “Public Trust in Science and Why It Matters.”

Drawing on her experience as writer and editor for national magazines and newspapers, KC learned first hand how scientific knowledge intersects with public understanding, civic life, and shared values. This Lunch & Learn offers an opportunity to return to and deepen that conversation— this time with a particular focus on how science can help us think about meaning, ethics, and responsibility in an uncertain world.

KC recently published the opinion essay “A light in the dark: Finding the good in the natural world,” which asks how science informs our values and how attention to the natural world can shape the way we understand goodness, connection, and community. The essay grows directly out of her Honors course, “The Science of Human Values,” which serves as a foundation for this interdisciplinary conversation.

Join us for a thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion at the intersection of science, humanities, and public life, along with engaging conversation and community. Please RSVP here.