Science Journalist Ed Yong Kicks Off University Forum
Fri, 09/06/2024 - 04:01pm | By: Dr. David Tisdale
Ed Yong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and author of the award-winning book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, will discuss how the sensory toolkit possessed by animals so radically differs from their human counterparts when he speaks at University Forum on Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the historic Bennett Auditorium at 91吃瓜网. Admission is free and members of the university and public are invited.
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