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College to host Pulitzer-Prize winner
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| Dr. Edward J. Larson | Collin has built a reputation for welcoming engaging speakers and foremost experts. Thursday, Oct. 26, will be no different as the college plays host to a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The college will host Dr. Edward J. Larson, the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, to speak at the Spring Creek Campus Conference Center. His presentation is titled, “From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in America.”
The event is free and open to the public. A faculty reception will take place at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Larson has published six books including “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion,” which won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. Other works include “Evolution's Workshop: God and Science in the Galapagos Islands,” which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, “Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution; and "Sex, Race and Eugenics in the Deep South.”
He has also published more than 100 articles about law. Larson’s areas of expertise are healthcare law, science and technology law, bioethics, property law and legal history.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Scholarly & Civic Engagement, the Honors Institute, the Math & Natural Sciences Division and the Social & Behavioral Sciences Division.
For more information about Larson, visit his website at www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/larson.html. For more information about the event, contact the Center for Scholarly & Civic Engagement at 972.881.5900.
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