New Frontiers
Health and Science Lecture Series
FineMark National Bank & Trust
Joshua Foer
Lecture Topic: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 PM
Journalist and author Joshua Foer is the recently-published author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, which debuted at No. 3 on The New York Times bestseller list in March 2011. Moonwalking recounts Foer's experience attending the 2005 U.S. Memory Championship to interview mental athletes, he quickly became fascinated by the world of mnemonics and immersed himself in the challenge of training his own memory. A year later, Foer returned to the annual competition as a contender and became the Memory Champion of 2006.
General: $26, Students $10
Dr. Jay Apt
Lecture Topic: Energy - What's Next? Renewables, Battery Vehicles, Gas, Coal, and Energy Independence
Saturday, March 17, 7:30 PM
As Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Electricity Industry Center, Dr. Jay Apt is an esteemed and accomplished professor of technology whose areas of expertise include engineering, public policy and economics. He is a former NASA astronaut, having flown four missions aboard U.S. Space Shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour, and is the recipient of a NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his significant contributions in the field of engineering. Dr. Apt is regularly published in The New York Times and Washington Post and is the co-author of "Near term implications of a ban on new coal-fired power plants in the U.S.," which was cited as one of the top environmental policy papers of 2009 by the American Chemical Society. He is a physics graduate of Harvard College and received a Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
General: $26, Students $10
