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UPDATES ON PROGRAMMING FOR HONORS INSTITUTE 2014 ARE COMING SOON!
PLAN NOW to attend the March 7 & 8, 2013, Honors Institute on "The Mysteries of the Universe." This year's programming features a Thursday, March 7 keynote address by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, and a Friday, March 8 symposium and luncheon address by Henry Fountain, science writer for the New York Times. Both days' events are free and open to the general public, but advance registration is required for the March 8 symposium and luncheon.
View the 2013 event poster/mailer (PDF). *Please note change of venue.
The University Honors Program Institute integrates classroom learning, the scholarly conference setting, and service learning with the aim of producing civic-minded, creatively engaged students who feel invested in the Dayton community.
Keynote Speaker
March 7, 2013
7 p.m.
WSU's Nutter Center McLin Gym*
(No registration required.)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
*Please note the change of venue.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Columbia. Tyson's professional research interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. He has written numerous books on those topics, from his memoir, The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, to Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller. In addition to writing, he appeared as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA's spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW, and is working on a 21st century reboot of Carl Sagan's landmark television series COSMOS, to air in the spring of 2014.
Luncheon Speaker
March 8, 2013
12:30 p.m.
Student Union Apollo Room
(Advance registration required.)
Henry Fountain
Science writer Henry Fountain covers engineering, materials, and other subjects at the intersection of science and everyday life for the New York Times. He joined the Times in 1995 as a national desk editor and has also worked as an editor for the weekly technology section Circuits, the Week in review, and the special sections department. Fountain became a full-time reporter in 2009 after writing the Observatory column in Science Times and other articles in the previous decade. Prior to joining the Times, Fountain was an editor at The International Herald Tribune in Paris and New York Newsday.
Henry Fountain's participation in the 2013 Honors Institute Symposium is courtesy of the New York Times inCOLLEGE program and Wright State University’s First Year Programs in University College.