Faculty author series at Widener
How will this generation shape issues of race in society? What can the retina tells us about brain functions? What’s the meaning of life? These are some of the questions Professors John Dowling, Jennifer Hochschild, and Jill Lepore have investigated, if not answered, in their books, questions they will further explore, and raise with students, through a series of book talks to be held in the Widener Library rotunda beginning this week. Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is sponsoring the series, in conjunction with the Undergraduate Council (UC) and Harvard College Library (HCL). “Working with the UC and HCL, I wanted to create additional opportunities outside the classroom for undergraduates to hear directly from — and to engage with — Harvard faculty members about their research and scholarship,” said Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies. Hochschild, the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor...