FORMER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT NUI GALWAY

Date Published: 27-Oct-2009

A former director of Psychophysics at Columbia University in New York will speak at a special lecture honouring a former President of NUI Galway.Professor Eugene Galanter has accepted an invitation to come to Galway to deliver this year's Monsignor Pádraig de Brún Memorial Lecture.The lecture is held every year in honour of Monsignor de Brún who held the office of President at University College Galway from 1945 until 1959.Professor Galanter has written over 150 books and articles on psychophysics, perception, motivation, memory, early learning and education.Entitled "Education for the Modern World: Science and Culture," the lecture will take place at 8pm on Thursday October 29th in the O' Flaherty Theatre at NUI Galway.