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Please join the HEB department in inaugurating the newly endowed Julia Booms Memorial Lecture series on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 4:00pm in Haller Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street. Though this lecture series is primarily intended for undergraduate students, it is open to the public and we would welcome your attendance at this important event. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the HEB department lounge.
Julia Booms was a beloved Harvard undergraduate who concentrated in Biological Anthropology, now HEB. In her senior fall, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She decided to remain at Harvard and complete her studies while she underwent treatment, and she graduated in the spring of 1992 with her classmates. Two years later, she died of complications from the disease.
To honor the memory of Julia’s intellectual curiosity, compassion, humor, grace, and selflessness, the Booms family established this lecture series. They have requested that Professor David Fox (Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota) kick off the series. David was a close friend and classmate of Julia’s, and also graduated with a degree from this department in 1992.
Starting next year, the annual lecture will be run and organized by the HEB undergraduates, who will choose and invite a distinguished speaker for a lecture, reception and dinner.
Please help us honor Julia and thank the Booms family for their generosity by attending on April 2, at 4:00pm at Haller Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street.
Professor Fox will be speaking on, “Of Mice and Men: testing environmental change in the fossil record.”