Brown Bag Lecture Series is Moving Up a Week!

Join me next Wednesday November 18th in MCC Room 303 for an engaging discussion of Medical Ethics with our very own H&S Instructor Dick Levin
ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN A TIME OF MIRACLES

A Brownbag talk stressing the need for the heart to be as engaged as the mind when confronting some of the technological advances in the field of public health

OR, put it in a simpler way…

Just because we CAN do something, does that mean we SHOULD do it?

Feel free to bring your lunch to this casual noontime talk.
Free Cornish Shopping Bags for all participants!

Richard Levin, Ph.D.
After receiving his B.A. in Biology at Harvard, Richard Levin began graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was a T.A. in Microbiology and Genetics.  Restless after completing his M.S. in Microbiology, he bought a cello and left the world of science for a while.  He became a student in Theodore Roethke’s Poetry workshop, and also a grad student in the School of Music at U.W., eventually earning an M.A. in Composition.  He never considered leaving teaching, however, and while studying music and poetry, he taught at U.W. as a Lecturer in Microbiology.  Though his heart was in the world of music, his living would be earned in the realm of science. Thus, after completing his Trumpet Concerto, he once again climbed the hill toward a Science doctorate, earning a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa.  Fortuitously, he got the job of his dreams, teaching Microbiology and Genetics at Oberlin College, which just happens to have a superb Music Conservatory.  He taught at Oberlin for 35 years, before retiring to his beloved Northwest in 2003.  Since then, he has taught Viral Oncology to Medical Students in the West Indies, and Microbiology to student nurses at a local community college.  He has published work on bacterial lipids, on microbial nitrogen fixation, and on bacterial tumor induction in plants.  Since 1981, he has presented dozens of lectures on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and on the AIDS crisis.