Creativity and New Brain Science

Special guests Jonah Lehrer and Dr. Martin Shapiro will deliver TED (technology, entertainment, design) style presentations on the subject of Creativity and New Brain Science, followed by a discussion with moderator Karen Sunderman, PBS 8/WDSE producer. Freelance and science writer Jonah Lehrer has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature. A graduate of Columbia University, Lehrer studied 20th century literature and theology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He is at work on a book about love, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. Dr. Martin Shapiro is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fresno. His primary research interest is the study of risky decision making in humans and non-human animals. For the past six years he has presented papers on global trends at the American Democracy Project Conference as a Global Engagement Scholar. During his visit to UMD, he’ll speak about behavioral economics and risk, principles of learning and explosive-detecting animals, and developing curriculum around global challenges. Free and open to the public.