Join leading researchers, artists, and scholars at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno at Lake Tahoe for The Tahoe Series. This collection of events, performances, lectures, and seminars welcomes the community to the University's Wayne L. Prim Campus in Incline Village to be enlightened and inspired.
The Tahoe Series: Faculty Showcase features professors across disciplines presenting as experts on new topics in their fields of study.
April 17, 2025 from 6-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening with Michael Branch, Foundation Professor of English Emeritus at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. Mike Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert.
His work includes ten published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated (Island Press). He has authored more than 300 essays, articles, and reviews. He has also given more than 400 invited lectures, readings, and workshops. He is the recipient of Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the ÁùºÏ±¦µä Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, the Western Literature Association Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing, the Willa Pilla Award for Humor Writing, and his books have been finalists for the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Creative Book Award, and the Mountain West Center Evans-Handcart Award.
On November 1 he will be inducted into the ÁùºÏ±¦µä Writer's Hall of Fame.
Living on the edge: How food-caching chickadees survive harsh winters with Vladimir Pravosudov
This doesn't happen on Earth! Crazy things at the South Pole of Mars with Wendy Calvin
Lake Tahoe: A Rephotographic History with Peter Goin
The World Doesn't Stop at the Skin: Figure, Landscape, Art, and Ecosystem with Chris Lanier
June Saraceno, Author and Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program
Legacy of James E. Church’s snow science research preserved with Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Reyes
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Meeting the Tides of Life Through the Practice of Poetry
Monster Fish with Zeb Hogan