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FAU Hosts Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Science Writer
Deborah
Blum to Speak at the Frontiers of Science Lecture Series
BOCA RATON, FL (March 11, 2004) –
The Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will
present a lecture by Deborah Blum entitled, “Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow
and the Science of Affection.” The lecture will take place Thursday, March
25 at 4 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Science Center, Room 126 on
the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. Blum
is a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the
1992 Pulitzer Prize winner for a series she wrote entitled, “The Monkey Wars.”
Before becoming an instructor for the University of Wisconsin, Blum spent close
to 15 years in California, where she became the first full-time science writer
for The Sacramento Bee. Blum’s lecture
will discuss the ethical issues and dilemmas of primate research that are addressed
in her latest novel “Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection.”
The novel explains the research of University of Wisconsin professor Harry Harlow,
who is best known for his study of love and affection using infant Rhesus monkeys.
In addition to writing and publishing several
critically acclaimed books, Blum serves as president of the National Association
of Science Writers and is on the board of Agriculture and Natural Resources of
the National Research Council. She has also written for The Los Angeles Times,
The New York Times and The Washington Post.
This is the final lecture of a four-part Frontiers in Science lecture series.
The Frontiers in Science Series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored
by the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, with support from FAU’s Lifelong
Learning Society Endowed Professorship. For more information, please call Joan
Gove at 561-297-2954 or email jgove@fau.edu.
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