The Teaching Evolution Lecture Series proudly sponsors a lecture by Dr. Robert Pennock . The event will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 18th, in the UNL City Campus. Pennock's lecture will be entitled "Should Evolution Be Taught in Public Schools?--What Dorothy Learned when the Creationist Whirlwind hit Kansas."

Dr. Robert Pennock is Associate Professor in the Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh (1991). His research focuses on epistemic and ethical values in science. Dr. Pennock is the author of Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism (MIT Press, 1999). Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Templeton Prize for Exemplary Paper in Theology and the Natural Sciences, and a National Endowment for the Humanities/National Science Foundation fellowship on Scientific, Ethical, and Social Challenges of Contemporary Genetic Technology. In 1997, he co-directed an NSF Chautauqua Workshop on "Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project." Dr. Pennock is a member of the American Philosophical Association, Philosophy of Science Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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