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Professor David Eagleman |
The Randolph-Macon College
Department of Psychology will present the second annual Mike McKay Lecture on the Mind on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is
free and open to the public, will take place in The Copley Science Center, Room 100.
Professor David Eagleman will present “Neuroscience and the Law.” Eagleman is the director of Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, which studies how new discoveries in neuroscience should navigate the way we make laws, punish criminals and develop rehabilitation. The project brings together a unique collaboration of neurobiologists, legal scholars, and policy makers, with the goal of building modern, evidence-based policy.
Eagleman also serves as a faculty affiliate at the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, and as adjunct faculty at Rice University. In addition to his legal work, he is the author of several books, including
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives and
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, co-written by Richard E. Cytowic.
The lecture series is named in honor of the late Professor Mike McKay, a beloved Randolph-Macon College psychology professor who died in an automobile accident in December 2007. The series is supported by a fund that was established shortly after Professor McKay’s death.
“The Psychology Department looks forward to honoring Dr. McKay with this relevant lecture about mental processes in the context of various legal issues,” says Kelly Lambert, the Macon and Joan Brock Professor of Psychology at Randolph-Macon College. “Mike was a valued colleague and a wonderful teacher. Although he was only here for a short time, his academic spirit remains in our halls, and I’m confident he would have been excited about Dr. Eagleman’s visit.”
Those interested in contributing to The Mike McKay Lecture on the Mind series should contact R-MC’s Executive Director of Development, Myra Legg, at (804) 752-8502 or
myralegg@rmc.edu.