Ig Nobel Awards Watch Party

About the event

Owen Science Library is holding a watch party to celebrate the 35th annual Ig Nobel Prize awards! Join us to celebrate some of the most hilarious scientific findings of the past year. This year’s party will feature trivia, paper-airplane making (and throwing), and free pizza!

Started in 1991, the Ig Nobel prizes recognize research achievements that make people laugh, then make them think. They are named after Ignatius “Ig” Nobel, a distant (fictitious) cousin of Nobel Prize founder Alfred.

Last year’s winners investigated cutting-edge scientific topics like swimming behaviors of a dead fish, living houseplants that imitate nearby plastic ones, and mammals that can breathe through their anus. Expect just as much hilarity interspersed with (very) brief scientific lectures, a mini-opera, and award presentations by actual Nobel laureates.