University of Pennsylvania professor to deliver Krause Lecture at MC
Marietta, Ohio (03/23/2023) — Dr. Dani Bassett, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 19th, at Marietta College on "On Being Curious." Bassett is delivering the 2023 Ellis L. and Jennie Mae Krause Lecture in Science.
Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at Penn with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry.
They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. They received a B.S. in physics from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, UK, as a Churchill Scholar and as an NIH Health Sciences Scholar. Following a postdoctoral position at UC Santa Barbara, Bassett was a Junior Research Fellow at the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Alma McDonough Auditorium. The lecture series, which began in 2002, is supported by gifts from the late Dr. Richard M. Krause '47, the son of E.L. and Jennie Mae Krause. Dr. Krause served on the College's Board of Trustees for 22 years.
Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.
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