Science on Screen

Science on Screen creatively pairs area scientists with entertaining films.

• Films in the series will be accompanied by lively talks from notable experts in the fields of science, technology and medicine. 
  
  
• Each film serves as a jumping off point for the speaker to share insights from scientific research or discuss technological advances in a way that engages popular audiences. 
  
  

Awakenings

Starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

John Salamone Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the UConn.

The Time Machine (1960)

This 1960 American science fiction film is based on the novel of the same name written by H. G. Wells in 1895. A man in Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future. The film starred Rod Taylor, Alan Young and Yvette Mimieux.

Ron Mallett Professor of Physics at Uconn. Ronald Mallett has been working on plans for a time machine. He wrote a book entitled, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, co-written with New York Times best-selling author Bruce B. Henderson. Currently, Spike Lee is planning to make a movie about Mallet and his book.

Double Indemnity

Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into murdering her husband to collect his accident policy. However, the scheme arouses Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), an insurance investigator's suspicions.

Jim Bridgeman Professor of Mathematics at Uconn. Before teaching at UConn in 2001 he spent 28 years in insurance and financial businesses, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Actuary for Aetna's international businesses and for ING's Latin American businesses. His research interests include asset-liability modeling and actuarial applications of stochastic modeling.