Friday, April 7, 2006
7:00pm
Joan C. Edwards Playhouse
Tickets are required for the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. Tickets are not required to watch the event on a large screen in the Booth Experimental Theater. 

Tickets are available in the Center for Academic Excellence. 

Book signings by Dr. Wilson will follow the presentation. 

Keynote speaker: Dr. E. O. Wilson

Dr. Edward Osborne Wilson, in 1995 named one of the 25 Most Influential People in America by Time Magazine, has been called "the father of sociobiology."  A two-time Pulitzer Award-winning author, Dr. Wilson earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he now serves as the Pellegrino Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.  His speech, "The Future of Life," explained the necessity of environmental caution and care.  A controversial and prominent scholar, Dr. Wilson is also an entomologist and naturalist.

(Photo courtesy of Jim Harrison, Photographer, Harvard University, 2003.)

Previous Honors Convocation speakers:
2005: Noah Adams, former host of NPR's All Things Considered
2004: Jane Alexander, actress
2003: Meave Leakey, paleoanthropologist and zoologist
2002: Homer Hickam, author