Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT:
Terry Gearing
561-799-8026, gearing@fau.edu
FAU Jupiter Hosts Writer/Biologist Robert Michael Pyle
Author to Speak on the Disconnect between Young People and Formative Experiences in Nature
WHAT:
FAU Jupiter and the Scripps Howard Institute on the
Environment present Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, who will
speak on “Frogs, Forts and Fritillaries: The Real
World as
Antidote to the Extinction of Experience.”
WHEN:
Wednesday, October 22 at 7 p.m.
Reception, book signing
and sales after the lecture
WHERE:
John D. MacArthur campus
AD Auditorium
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
COST: Free and open to the public
CONTACT: 561-799-8462 or scrippsinstitute@fau.edu
Robert Michael Pyle is an award-winning writer, independent biologist and distinguished alumnus of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has authored 15 books, including Wintergreen, The Thunder Tree, Chasing Monarchs and the Audubon Society’s Field Guide to North American Butterflies. Pyle won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award for natural history literature.
This lecture is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation and coordinated by FAU’s School of Communication & Multimedia Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
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FAU’s MacArthur Campus in Jupiter offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The campus is home to the Wilkes Honors College, the Lifelong Learning Society, and Scripps Florida research facilities.
