Center for Science Writings: Is Our Planet Alive?
Science journalist Ferris Jabr, contributing writer for The NY Times Magazine, will discuss his acclaimed book Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, which reports on discoveries forcing scientists to rethink the relationship between life and planet Earth.
Reviewers have hailed the book as a “masterwork of journalism” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books, as well as acknowledged classics.”
Wednesday, February 26
3 - 4 p.m.
Via Zoom
About Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is a journalist and author of Becoming Earth, praised for its poetic and powerful prose. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and more. Jabr has received fellowships from Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley, and grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation.
He holds an MA in journalism from NYU and a BS from Tufts University. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and many plants. His surname rhymes with "neighbor."
To learn more about Jabr, please visit his website.
About the Center for Science Writings
Part of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and launched in 2005, the Center for Science Writings (CSW) hosts talks by authors of books on pressing science-related issues, from climate change to mental illness. Speakers—be they scientists, humanities scholars or journalists—deliver free, public lectures each and every semester. The founder and director of the CSW is veteran science journalist John Horgan, author of the bestseller “The End of Science” and other books.