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OU Welcomes Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert April 3

Posted on: Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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On Tuesday April 3, 2018 in Memorial Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Ohio University’s Frontiers in Science Lecture Series welcomes Elizabeth Kolbert. She is an American journalist and author, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book  The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History . She won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award and the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism, as well as many other awards. Kolbert is a writer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker Magazine.

OHIO’s Frontiers in Science lecture series was established in 1991 by a gift from Jeanette Grasselli Brown, an OHIO alumna and former University trustee, and her husband, Glenn R. Brown. The series features scientists who have been recognized for their commitment to share their scientific knowledge with individuals of all ages.

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Sixth Extinction
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
7:30 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium
Admission is free, doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Kolbert’s books will be on sale with book signing at lecture’s end