Ohio University welcomes author Dr. Neil Shubin to the Athens Campus for its annual Kennedy Lecture Series.
Neil Shubin
Shubin is scheduled to lecture in OHIO’s Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and the event is free and open to the entire community.
An American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and well-known science writer, Shubin’s research seeks to understand the mechanisms behind the evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and fauna. He is the author of two popular science books, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets and People (2013) and Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (2008), which the National Academy of Sciences selected as the best book of the year in 2009.
Educated at Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor and associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Ohio University’s Kennedy Lecture Series was established in 1962 by a gift from OHIO alumni and stalwart supporters Edwin L. and Ruth Kennedy. The Kennedy Lecture Series aims to bring speakers who appeal to a broad cross-section of the OHIO community to the Athens Campus to discuss significant issues in American life.
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