Patrusky Lectures

Climate scientist Michael Mann to present 11th Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2023 University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael E. Mann has been selected by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) to present the eleventh Patrusky Lecture...

Astronomer Alyssa Goodman presents tenth Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2022 Harvard astronomer Alyssa A. Goodman presented the tenth Patrusky Lecture on October 23, 2022, as part of New Horizons in Science, CASW’s annual briefing on emerging research and...

Katharine Hayhoe to present ninth Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2021 Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) has been selected by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) to present the ninth Patrusky Lecture on October 6, as ...

Sociologist Ruha Benjamin delves into race and technology in eighth Patrusky Lecture Princeton sociologist Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9), whose work examines how science and technology reinforce racial inequality as they shape the social world, was selected by the Counc...

Steven Squyres presents seventh Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2019 Planetary scientist Steven W. Squyres, lead scientist for the long-lived Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, was selected by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing to p...

Shirley Tilghman presents the sixth Patrusky Lecture Shirley M. Tilghman, a mammalian developmental geneticist who served as the 19th president of Princeton University, presented the sixth Patrusky Lecture on Sunday, October 14, 2018...

Susan Desmond-Hellmann presents fifth Patrusky Lecture at WCSJ2017 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, a physician and scientist who serves as chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was selected by the Council for the Advancement ...

Steven Weinberg presents fourth Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2016 Steven Weinberg, a pioneer of elementary particle physics and cosmology and one of the towering figures of science, presented the fourth Patrusky Lecture on October 30, 2016, at Ne...

Handelsman presents third Patrusky Lecture at ScienceWriters2015 Microbiologist Jo Handelsman, a pioneer in metagenomics research who is currently serving in a key White House science-policy post, presented the Patrusky Lecture on October 11, ...

Don Johanson gives Patrusky Lecture marking 40th anniversary of Lucy’s discovery In the second Patrusky Lecture at CASW’s New Horizons in Science, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of Arizona State Univeresity traced the sweep of knowledge about the hu...

Ben Patrusky celebrated at ScienceWriters2013 Colleagues surprised Ben Patrusky with tributes of words, music and contributions to a new CASW fund in his honor as they gathered in Gainesville, Florida for ScienceWriters2013 an...

George M. Whitesides selected as first Patrusky Lecturer Celebrated chemist and materials scientist George M. Whitesides of Harvard University was chosen to deliver the first Patrusky Lecture on November 3, 2013, at New Horizons in Scie...