Past Events: Academic Year 2009 - 2010

Literary Investigative Journalism

"Making the Truth Truthful: Turning Science into Storytelling"

November 11 - 6:30pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106

David Shenk '88

David Shenk '88 is the author of five books, including The Immortal Game, The Forgetting, and Data Smog. Currently a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, he has advised the President's Council on Bioethics.

Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series Organized by Brown University Department of English

A Sense of Wonder

Written and performed by Drama Desk Award Nominee
Kaiulani Lee

Nov. 4 - 8:00pm
Solomon 101

A one-woman show about Rachel Carson, “the patron saint of the environmental movement,” A Sense of Wonder has been touring the United States for over ten years. The play has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment. Kaiulani Lee has performed it at over one hundred universities as well as at the Smithsonian Institute, the United Nations, the Sierra Club's Centennial in San Francisco, and the Department of the Interior's 150th anniversary celebration.