Dr. Thomas Hegna, presenting the Robert W. Kasling lecture in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall.
Photo by Dr. Syed Haider
Associate Professor Thomas Hegna has already placed two off campus speaking engagements on his fall semester calendar.
“Living Fossils, Sex and the Single Anostracan, and Doomsday Preppers: The Branchiopod Crustacean Fossil Record” was the title of the guest lecture Dr. Hegna, of the Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences, gave at the Buffalo Geological Society’s monthly meeting held Oct. 3 at the Heritage Discovery Center, Buffalo, NY.
Hegna developed that lecture as a result of a campus Honors Program seminar he taught on biodiversity.
Next on his agenda is delivering the keynote address at the Penn-York Undergraduate Conference at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, in Bradford, PA, on Saturday, Nov. 15. The title of his lecture is “Teaching Critical Thinking on a Flat Earth: When Does a Hypothesis Become a Conspiracy Theory?”
The Penn York keynote is based on his Robert W. Kasling Lecture, “Teaching Critical Thinking on a Flat Earth,” that he delivered on campus on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The lecture was based on his experiences teaching GEO 160: Blue Planet, a Foundations course.
