Dava Sobel gives science lecture at Messiah College Oct. 29
October 8th, 2013
GRANTHAM, Pa. (Oct. 8, 2013) —Dava Sobel, former New York Times science reporter, will discuss, “Copernicus and Galileo: Authors of the Moving Earth” Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in Parmer Hall in the Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts at Messiah College. Admission is free but a ticket is required. To obtain a ticket, contact the Messiah College Ticket Office at tickets@messiah.edu or 717-691-6036. The lecture is sponsored by the Messiah College Friends of Murray Library and the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science.
About Dava Sobel
A former New York Times science reporter, Sobel has also written for Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker. Two of her four books, “Longitude” (1995) and “Galileo’s Daughter” (1999), were made into documentaries for PBS and A&E. Sobel’s most recent book, “A More Perfect Heaven” (2011), includes an “interplay” about Copernicus. A frequent guest on NPR, she has spoken at The Smithsonian Institution, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Royal Geographical Society (London) and the American Academy in Rome. This fall, she began a two-year appointment as the Joan Leiman Jacobson writer-in-residence at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg.
