2024-25 Lyceum Lecture Series
JACK HORNER
"The Real Jurassic Park"
Friday, Nov. 8, 2024
11 a.m.-Noon
Victoria Fine Arts Center
Jack Horner is a severely dyslexic dinosaur paleontologist who spent 7 years at the University of Montana studying geology and paleontology, without receiving a degree. He has since been awarded 4 honorary doctorates, two in science, one in education, and another in humane letters. Jack worked at Princeton University as a research scientist for 7 years before taking a job as Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, and Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University in Bozeman where he spent 34 years.
Jack has more than 320 publications, including a dozen popular books. He has received a plethora of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Romer-Simpson Medal from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and a distinguished teaching award from Montana State. Jack was the committee chair of 12 Doctoral students and 12 Masters students. Jack was also the technical advisor for the first 6 installments of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World movie franchise.
After his retirement from Montana State University in 2016, Jack took a teaching position as Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in Orange California where he currently resides.
STEPHANIE LAND
Discussion of her new book "Class". Some discussion from her first book "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
11 a.m.-Noon
Victoria Fine Arts Center
IMRAN NURI
Advice From America: What I Learned From 1,000 Strangers
Thursday, April 10, 2025
6-7 p.m.
Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts
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