"From Thomas Edison to Heddy Lamarr: The Many Sources of Creativity"

Saturday, September 29  -  3:00 pm Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall

Award-winning TV journalist and National Public Radio science correspondent Ira Flatow anchors NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, sharing his deep interest in all things scientific each week with 2.5 million public radio listeners, who call in with questions, opinions, and ideas.

As a student earning his engineering degree at SUNY-Buffalo, Flatow began reporting at WBFO-FM in Buffalo during the 1960s. From 1971 to 1986, he was NPR’s science correspondent, reporting from such places as Three Mile Island, Antarctica (seen recording penguins below), and the Kennedy Space Center. For six years, he was writer and host for PBS’s Emmy-winning Newton’s Apple, a science program for children.

Ira Flatow is the author of several books, including They All Laughed…From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions that Have Changed Our Lives and Rainbows, Curve Balls, and Other Wonders of the Natural World Explained. His numerous television credits include science reporting for CBS This Morning and appearances on talk shows with Merv Griffin, Oprah Winfrey, and Charlie Rose, and on Today.
 

Reading, Talk, and Book Signing with Best-Selling Author
Sue Monk Kidd

Thursday, September 27  -  7:00 pm Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall

Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning author of best-selling debut novel The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, winner of the 2005 Quill award. She has also written three highly regarded spiritual memoirs. The Secret Life of Bees was selected by Wells faculty as this year’s shared first-year reading experience.

As part of Wells’ Arts & Lecture Series, Ms. Monk Kidd will speak about her work and life in the South, followed by a book signing. 

Free for Wells students. Prices are $6 other students/seniors/Wells community/children; $10 general admission; Tickets are available at the door the night of the talk or from the box office in Macmillan Hall the week preceding the event. Call 315.364.3456 to reserve.
 

Science Colloquium by Dr. Margaret “Peggy” A. Pericak-Vance, Wells Class Of 1973

"Making Health Care Better: The Genetics of Common Disease"

Friday, September 28  -  12:30 pm, Stratton 209

Peggy Pericak-Vance is a global leader in the genetics of common diseases. Her ground-breaking work in 1993 led to the identification of a gene that can cause Alzheimer’s disease. With her husband and lab partner Dr. Jeffrey Vance and their team of researchers, Pericak-Vance has discovered genetic links to the origins of more than 50 diseases, including autism, Parkinson, multiple sclerosis, and tuberculosis.

Together, the Vances head the new Miami Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. They have recently moved to south Florida from Duke University’s Center of Human Genetics. Pericak-Vance received her Ph.D. in medical genetics from Indiana University, is a board-certified medical geneticist, and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

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Please call 315.364.3416 or email CelebratingConnections@wells.edu for more information or to let us know you will be joining us. We hope to see you on campus September 27 – 29, 2007 to Celebrate Connections and officially open Stratton Hall.

Last updated 09/26/2007