WSU’s Department of History and the Walker Institute of Politics & Public Service host Eric Swedin for the America 250 Utah - How Science Sparked the Spread of Democracy and Transformed Today’s World, 7 p.m. in Lindquist Hall’s Haven J. Barlow Lecture Hall Room 101, free. Swedin will explain how the scientific revolution and enlightenment created the ideas that led to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. More information is available on the Historical Society website.