Thursday, October 16, 2008
Alan Lightman to deliver Fall Lecture
 Theoretical physicist and award-winning novelist Alan Lightman will deliver the Fall Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 23, in Carter Hall in the University Center at the University of Southern Indiana. The lecture is free and open to the public.Lightman was selected for this lecture based on an essay he wrote for This I Believe, the 2008 selection for Bonding through Books, USI’s freshman reading program. This I Believe also is Evansville’s One Book, One Community selection this year. The lecture will be based on Lightman’s novel, The Diagnosis, in which a man contracts a strange, debilitating illness for which no doctor can find the cause – a physical manifestation of the emotional effects we experience when we sacrifice human contact for speed, information, and money. The Diagnosis was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award in fiction. The author of 20 books, he is perhaps best known among readers as the author of Einstein’s Dreams, which was translated into 30 languages and has been the basis for more than two dozen plays, dance productions, and musical compositions. He has held positions at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. As the first professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to receive a joint appointment in science and the humanities, he co-founded that institution’s graduate program in science writing. He is currently an adjunct professor of Humanities at MIT. The Fall Lecture Series is sponsored by the Office of Student Development Programs. For more information, call 812/465-7167. Wendy Knipe Bredhold News & Information Services 812/461-5259 or wkbredhold@usi.edu |
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