Ig Nobel Awards Watch/Pizza Party

About the event

Owen Science Library is holding a watch party to celebrate the 36th 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.

The theme of this year’s celebration is: fungi!

Last year’s winners investigated cutting-edge scientific topics like lizards’ preferences for pizza toppings, echolocation by intoxicated bats, and cows cosplaying zebras to ward off flies. Expect just as much hilarity interspersed with (very) brief scientific lectures, a mini-opera, and award presentations by actual Nobel laureates.