Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Marcia Bartusiak, Professor of the Practice, Emeritus
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
“Edwin
Hubble Discovers the Modern Universe, 1923-24:
A Centennial Celebration”
Wednesday, April 23, 5:15 PM, Burt
Kahn Court in the Quinnipiac University Recreation and Wellness Center
Combining her undergraduate training in journalism with a
master’s degree in physics, Marcia Bartusiak has been covering the fields of
astronomy and physics for four decades. A Professor of the Practice Emeritus in
the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, she has written for a variety of publications--including Science,
Smithsonian, Discover, National Geographic, Technology Review, and
Astronomy--and reviews science books for both The Washington Post and The Wall
Street Journal. She is also the author of seven books, including
"Einstein's Unfinished Symphony," her award-winning history of
gravitational-wave astronomy, "Black Hole," and "The Day We
Found the Universe" on the birth of modern cosmology, which won the Davis
Prize of the History of Science Society.
In 1982, she was the first woman to win the American Institute of Physics
Science Writing Award and five years later was a finalist in NASA‘s
Journalist-in-Space competition. She has also received the AIP Gemant Award,
the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and in
2008 was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, cited for “exceptionally clear communication of the rich history, the
intricate nature, and the modern practice of astronomy to the public at
large.”
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