The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies is very proud to present a talk by the distinguished UIC professor of physics and Honors College Faculty Fellow, Nikos Varelas, whose ground-breaking research of the “Higgs boson”, the elusive subatomic particle essential to the existence of mass, has been granted many awards. Keeping to the tradition of the Greek-Ionian Scientists and philosophers of the sixth cent. BCE, Prof. Varelas will speak on: “Unveiling the Mysteries of our Universe”