Join ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Interstellar (2014) on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past five decades.
Join us Wednesday, April 22nd at 7 pm and venture into the unknowable beyond with a former NASA test pilot Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and scientist Dr. Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) as they explore exoplanets in search for habitability. Unfortunately, they’re in a battle against time in order to figure out how to ensure humanity’s survival.
This film will be introduced by Dr. Heather Throop, an ecosystem scientist whose research and teaching interests focus on understanding how carbon and nutrients cycle through deserts and how these patterns are affected by human activities. After receiving a doctorate from Stony Brook University, Dr. Throop moved to University of Arizona for a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship and quickly became fascinated by deserts. She has held faculty positions at Beloit College and New Mexico State University, served as a Fulbright research and teaching fellow at Namibia University of Science and Technology, and served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Throop is currently a professor at Arizona State University where she is jointly appointed in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Life Sciences. She has active research projects in deserts throughout the western United States and in Namibia.
Tickets are $8.00, plus applicable taxes and service charges. A limited number of free tickets for ASU students are available on a first-come, first-served basis, courtesy of your Imaginary Friends at CSI.