Mark A. Norell Chairman of the Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History Mark A. Norell was born July 26, 1957, in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent most of his formative years (from 1964) in southern California. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1980 from Long Beach State University and a Masters of Science from San Diego State University in 1983. In 1988, he was awarded the John Spanger Nichols prize for best thesis upon completion of his doctoral studies at Yale University. After a year of post-doctoral training studying the molecular genetics of maize, Dr. Norell accepted a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History in New York where he is the Chairman of the Department of Paleontology. The author of many scholarly articles, Dr. Norell’s most recent book is entitled Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World. Participant In: Where Does It Begin? Saturday, May 5th 4:30 - 6:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Why are we curious about beginnings, whether that of the cosmos or our own? What can we discover from each other’s curiosity about beginnings? What are the organizational properties necessary to call something a beginning? Might similar processes apply to both individual consciousness and the universe at large? Free and open to the public. Design in Nature Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Though human ingenuity may make various inventions…it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous… – Leonardo da Vinci, The Da Vinci Notebooks, Vol. II, XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology When we employ the term… read more »
Where Does It Begin? Saturday, May 5th 4:30 - 6:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Why are we curious about beginnings, whether that of the cosmos or our own? What can we discover from each other’s curiosity about beginnings? What are the organizational properties necessary to call something a beginning? Might similar processes apply to both individual consciousness and the universe at large? Free and open to the public.
Design in Nature Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Though human ingenuity may make various inventions…it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting, and nothing is superfluous… – Leonardo da Vinci, The Da Vinci Notebooks, Vol. II, XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology When we employ the term… read more »