Last-Minute Changes Due to Covid

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Four courses, originally scheduled to be in-person, will now be remote, on ZOOM:

  • Why Do Media Get Health Stories So Wrong So Often (Tues., 9:15, starting Jan. 25);
  • Climate Change: Where Do We Stand (Wed., 9:15, starting Jan. 26),
  • France Through the Ages (Wed., 11:15, starting Jan. 19), and
  • Death, Dying and the Afterlife in World Cultures (Thurs., 11:15, starting Jan. 20).

Registration is now closed, except for those who have already registered and wish to enroll in Climate Change or Media/Health Stories.  Email your request to hjbecker@uci.edu by Jan. 21st.

Also, note that 3 courses will begin during the 2nd week of classes–the week of Jan. 24th.  Those are the Health Stories and Climate Change courses mentioned above as well as the Jewish Intellectual History course which had already been scheduled to start in the 2nd week.

Below is the full schedule of courses — including the notation of which classes are full:

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First Fall ’21 Lindgren Lecture: Epigenetics (Mom & Me)

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Friday, October 22nd, at 11:15 a.m., Professor Brian Strahl, Professor and Interim Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Chapel Hill, will discuss Epigenetics and the Histone Code or “Things Mom Didn’t Have to Teach Me.”  (Title line above abbreviated for impact.)  We will meet over Zoom and the Zoom link will be emailed to current members.  If you are a previous member or are on our mailing list, email hjbecker@uci.edu for the Zoom link.

Each cell in our body contains ~3.4 billion base pairs, which, if stretched out from end to end, would be 6 ft in length, but somehow fits into a cell nucleus only about 10 μm (~0.00001 yards) in diameter. How our DNA is packaged into the nucleus and then unwound for gene expression and protein synthesis (both critical to cell identity and fetal development) is still poorly understood. Brian Strahl, co-Director of the UNC Program in Chromatin and Epigenetics, is at the forefront of deciphering how DNA is packaged and then unwound for expression. DNA packaging and unwinding is largely mediated by a class of proteins called histones. Brian’s lab has been studying these proteins and the small chemical additions that occur on them or they make to DNA (e.g., adding or deleting phosphate or methyl groups).

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Shared Learning Is Moving to the Church of Reconciliation

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Shared Learning and the Church of Reconciliation have finalized our agreement for 2021-2022 with classes beginning the week of September 13th.  The Curriculum and Catalog Committee is working with more than two dozen moderators to prepare an exciting set of courses for the Fall semester.  Most will be in-person at the Church (“the Rec” at 110 N. Elliot Rd.); some will be given remotely over Zoom; and a few are likely to be “hybrid” with participants both in-person and remote.

More details will be forthcoming soon–including a tentative schedule of courses–with the full catalog expected near the beginning of August.  Tell your friends to look out for the latest information–which will be on Shared Learning’s Public Home Page, https://sharedlearning.us.