Lecture by award-winning science journalist David Dobbs

March 31, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

What: Lecture by award-winning science journalist David Dobbs
When: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Monday, March 31
Where: Pacific Theater, Stockton Campus
Cost: Free and open to the public

Award-winning science writer David Dobbs will deliver the lecture "The Achieving Brain: The Neuroscience of Learning and Expertise" from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday, March 31 in the McCaffrey Center's Pacific Theater on the Stockton campus. The event is being presented by Pacific's Center for Teaching and Learning.

Dobbs will address questions such as "What happens in your brain when you learn?," and "What has to happen for you to learn it really well?" The answers, which involve everything from sea slugs to Tiger Woods, are encouraging, daunting and endlessly useful.

Dobbs writes for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Audubon, and Scientific American Mind, where he is a contributing editor. A feature for the New York Times Magazine, "A Depression Switch," was selected for the Ecco/Harper Perennial Anthology Best American Science Writing 2007. "Buried Answers," one of his features for the New York Times Magazine, was included in Houghton Mifflin's 2006 Best American Science and Nature Writing.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information please call the Center for Teaching and Learning at 209.946.7685 or visit the website at www.pacific.edu/ctl.