Friday, February 20th, 2026
8:30am EST TBA (Zoom)
Title: TBA (Coming soon!)
9:30am EST Kevin Birth, Professor of Anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). (Zoom)
10:30am EST Brett Bolen, Associate Professor of Physics at Grand Valley State University (Zoom)
Title: TBA (Coming soon!)
11:30am EST Keith Snedegar, Professor of History at Utah Valley University (Zoom)
Title: The Afropast, Afropresent, and Afrofuture of Space Science across the Mother Continent
12:30pm EST Break for Lunch
1pm EST Paul Gabor, Vice Director, Vatican Observatory and Affiliate Faculty, University of Arizona (Zoom)
Title: Time, Science & Society
2pm EST Amanda Stark, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center (Zoom)
Title: Mars Transit and the MARVL Project
3:30pm-7:30pm EST - In-person events at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center
3:30pm EST - Live panel discussion on how the Moon, Sun, and stars shape calendars and seasons across cultures. (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center's Loosemore Auditorium)
4:00pm EST - Workshop event #1: (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)
Title: TBA (Coming soon!)
4:00pm EST - Workshop event #2: (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)
Title: TBA (Coming soon!)
5:30 pm EST – Reception and Viewing of Design That! Design Challenge Entries (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)
6:30pm EST – Astronaut Jeanette Epps, PhD. (ret.) (in-person at the Loosemore Auditorium, GVSU Pew Campus, DeVos Center)