Phi Beta Kappa Scholar to speak on campus

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Timothy Bromage, professor of biomaterials and biomimetics at New York University, will speak in the Freedom Forum Conference Room in the Al Neuharth Media Center  7:30 p.m. Sept. 5 to discuss “What Cells Will Do For Global Climate Change.”

Bromage has been honored for his research by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. He is the recipient of the Max Planck Prize and is director of the Hard Tissue Research Unit. Bromage’s research is centered on human evolution, growth and development with emphasis on the biology of bones and teeth as “windows into life history.” He conducts his fieldwork primarily in Malawi.

Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University of South Dakota, the lecture will be free and open to the public. The Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to meet well-known scholars and exchange ideas between the scholars and other students and faculty around campus. The Visiting Scholar Lecture is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Alpha Chapter of South Dakota Phi Beta Kappa, the Department of History, Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Biology.