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Virtual Event: Big Read Keynote a Talk With Hope Jahren

NEA Big Read: Lab Girl

Scientist and author, Hope Jahren, will discuss her book Lab Girl. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. www.ocls.info/bigread 

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist who has been pursuing independent research in paleobiology since 1996, when she completed her PhD at University of California Berkeley and began teaching and researching first at the Georgia Institute of Technology and then at Johns Hopkins University. She is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards and is one of four scientists, and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young Investigator Medals given within the Earth Sciences. She was a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu from 2008 to 2016, where she built the Isotope Geobiology Laboratories, with support from National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. She currently holds the J. Tuzo Wilson professorship at the University of Oslo, Norway.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. For more Big Read events go to: www.ocls.info/bigread 

Registration for this event will take place through our partner, the Miami Book Fair. https://ocls.info/miamihopejahrenkeynote   

Live Q&A will not be available during the event. 

This event is provided in partnership with: Eagle Valley High School, Chillicothe Public Library, Colorado Mountain College, Lincoln Land Community College, Maryland Public Television, Miami Book Fair, Morton Public Library District, and Vail Public Library.  

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