Habitable Mars topic of 2016 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
John P. Grotzinger, the scientist who led the Mars Rover Curiosity mission that discovered evidence of water in 2012, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 2, at Washington University in St. Louis.
Stardust in the laboratory the topic of 2013 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
Thomas J. Bernatowicz, professor of physics in
Arts & Sciences, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture at
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Room 105, Steinberg Hall, at Washington
University in St. Louis. He will discuss what cosmic dust carried to
Earth by meteorites has revealed about the creation of the elements by
stars and supernovae. The St. Louis community is cordially invited to the lecture, which is sponsored by the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.