Annual Osgood Memorial Lecture to feature earth scientist and museum educator Lisa White

The College of Wooster Department of Earth Sciences will welcome Lisa White, director of education and outreach at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, to present the annual Richard G. Osgood Jr. Memorial Lecture. The lecture, titled “Integrating Paleontology Collections, Virtual Field Trips, and Visualization Tools to Enhance Geoscience Instruction for Diverse Audiences” will take place Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room, located in Wishart Hall (303 E. University Street). White will discuss her work and how to use oceans, fossils, and field trips to spark children’s interest in paleontology. The talk will be preceded by a dessert reception starting at 7 p.m. 

Before joining the UCMP, White spent 22 years at San Francisco State University, where she held positions of professor of geosciences and associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering. White was the inaugural recipient of the Geological Society of America Bromery Award for Minorities, an honor bestowed upon a geoscientist who has been instrumental in opening the geoscience field to diverse communities. As the chair of the American Geophysical Union Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, White works to create a culture that embraces diversity and inclusiveness in the Earth and space sciences.  

White’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of Earth Sciences and the Richard G. Osgood Jr. Memorial Lecture Endowed Fund. The Richard G. Osgood Jr. Memorial Lectureship in geology was established in 1981 and endowed by his three sons in memory of their father, a paleontologist with an international reputation who taught at Wooster from 1967 until 1981. Funds from this endowment are used to bring a well-known scientist interested in paleontology and/or stratigraphy to the campus each year to lecture and meet with students.  For more information contact Nat McCoy at nmccoy@wooster.edu or 330-263-2380. The event is free and open to the public.  

Posted in Event, News on February 23, 2024.