IMSA Kicks-Off Fall 2000 IMSA Great Minds Program® with Community Lecture
For Immediate Release, September 2000
For comment, contact Brenda Buschbacher at
(630) 907-5033
MEDIA ADVISORY: Photography at the lecture is permitted. If you would like to attend, please contact Brenda Buschbacher no later than October 16, 2000. Media will be required to wear an IMSA press badge (can be obtained at front desk).
For Immediate Release, September 2000
For comment, contact Brenda Buschbacher at
(630) 907-5033
AURORA — The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) is hosting an upcoming Community Lecture this Fall featuring Nobel Laureate and IMSA Resident Scholar Dr. Leon Lederman entitled Science and Anti-Science: Technology and Its Burdens. These lectures, as well as a series of Seminars and Dialogues for Illinois educators, are sponsored by the IMSA Great Minds Program.
On October 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the IMSA auditorium, internationally renowned high-energy physicist Dr. Leon Lederman will review the status of science on a broad level and discuss such anti-science movements as astrology, UFO sightings, alternative medicines, post-modernism, etc. He will also discuss the connections of science to technology and discuss the inevitable two-sidedness of technology: its economic, social and cultural virtues and its negative impacts.
Dr. Lederman, Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. He currently holds an appointment as Pritzker Professor of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Contact the IMSA Office of Institutional Advancement at (630) 907-5033 to register your attendance. Admission is $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for seniors and free for students with an I.D.
The IMSA Great Minds Program® supports IMSA's learning agenda by creating unique teaching and learning opportunities to help shape mathematics and science educational public policy in Illinois and the nation. The intellectual resources of the Great Minds Program are shared with students and teachers throughout Illinois and the nation through Seminars, Dialogues, Community Lectures and the IMSA Great Minds Program® website (http://www.imsa.edu/programs/greatminds/).