Veritas Forum at UCSF - this Tuesday, May 5th!

The Veritas Forum at UCSF is just around the corner! We've ordered the food (burritos, in honor of Cinco de mayo!), set up the logistics, and let our publicity engine loose to get the word out to the campus and community. I hope that you can join us at Cole Hall (513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, UCSF) on May 5th, 6-8pm. Bring a hungry stomach, bring a friend, and bring your questions to the talk and open Q&A!

And if you haven't heard...there's a Veritas Lunch the following day, May 6th, from 12-1pm (room TBD, on Parnassus). Please join us to hear from Jonathan Lew, Western Regional Director of the Veritas Forum, as he shares more about Veritas and how you might get involved!

Ask Questions, Get Answers At Veritas

Veritas at UCSF is just around the corner! Stay updated by signing up for our announcements, and feel free to drop a question for Dr. Newsome to answer during the event. (Note that you can ask questions anonymously.)

Veritas Forum at UCSF on May 5th!

We've scheduled our Veritas Forum date and place, and we're honored to have Bill Newsome as our speaker. Newsome is chair of neurobiology at Stanford and renowned for both his work on the intersection of primate research and ethics and the intersection of science and faith. At our forum, he'll be talking on the latter:

Science and faith: the vantage point of one neuroscientist

I am a practicing scientist and a practicing Christian—commitments that are inconsistent in the minds of many. While I encounter tension at times between my science and my faith, my overwhelming belief is that both science and faith contribute critically to a meaningful, fully-experienced human life. Giving up either would result in a regrettable loss of understanding, depth of experience, and simple joy in my life. I believe that much of the perceived incompatibility between science and religion is specious, although real tensions do exist. In this talk I will lay out the central issues from my point of view, hoping to dispel some of the false conflicts between science and faith while bringing into focus real choices that need to be made.

You can find our more about his research as an HHMI investigator as well as his life history and scientific career path. And of course, a sample of one of his talks at a Christian conference (scroll down).

The event's on May 5th (that's right, ¡Cinco de mayo!) at 6pm, in Cole Hall at UCSF (513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco). Drop by if you're in the area! And feel free to peruse our planning and Veritas pages for more information.

Veritas Planning Meeting 0.03

We're having a focused planning meeting to decide on a Spring 2009 event! Please join us at 5:30pm on Monday, 12/1, in one of the S rooms on Parnassus.

Web Server Down 11/28, 10pm - 11/29, 10am

UPDATE (2008-11-39, 9:48am): The server upgrade is complete, and service to stuffy.hopto.org (and related websites) is restored.

The CCF web server will be down for a server upgrade from 11/28, 10pm - 11/29, 10am. We will be upgrading the server software from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 to take advantage of the many refinements and polish included in this latest release of the Fedora open source powerhouse.

New Website Address: sfcampus.org

We have a new website address! With the UCSF web server transition complete, we decided to register an official domain name for CCF. Our private server allows us greater flexibility in web hosting, and sfcampus.org as our shorter domain name will hopefully be more memorable than http://rco.ucsf.edu/indep.php/ccf. But if you forget it, you can still visit our old address to see the new one!

Veritas: 2nd planning meeting

Planning for a Veritas event at UCSF is just getting underway. We'll be having our 2nd planning meeting, and you are all more than welcome to join us. I see Veritas as a wonderful way for our fellowships to connect through planning and outreach.

Our planning meeting is this Monday (8/25) at 7pm, David's place. We'll be focusing on speaker selection, topic/question refinement, and creative venue brainstorming. Please let me know if you're interested in coming or keeping updated on Veritas.

Blessings,
David