Ursinus College Presents a Lecture by Jennifer Wiseman, Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope

In association with Ursinus College’s Center for Science and
the Common Good, Jennifer Wiseman will present a lecture titled “Incredible
Universe, Complex World: Science, Religion, and Ethics Today” on Monday, Oct.
7, at 7 p.m. in the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center’s Lenfest Theater. The
event is free and open to the public.

Wiseman is an astronomer and Director of the Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Religion for the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. She is the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she previously headed the
Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics. She received a bachelor’s
degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University. While a student, she
co-discovered the comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff. She conducted postdoctoral research
in star formation as a Jansky Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory and as a Hubble Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. Wiseman was
the 2001-2002 Congressional Science Fellow of the American Physical Society and
served with staff of the Committee on Science of the U.S. House of
Representatives. From 2003 to 2006, she was the program scientist for the
Hubble Space Telescope at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dr. Wiseman is
also interested in promoting positive dialogue on the relationship of science,
values, and faith. She gives numerous talks on the excitement of astronomy and
scientific discovery.

The Center for Science and the Common Good provides
opportunities for all Ursinus students to consider the impact of science on the
common good and is a resource for students on the impact of science and
society. It is funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Ursinus College is a highly selective, independent
coeducational liberal arts college located on a scenic, wooded, 170-acre campus
in suburban Philadelphia. The college is one of only 8 percent of U.S. Colleges
to host a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.