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Adventures of a Vatican Astronomer with Brother Guy Consolmagno
Friday | April 14, 2023 | 2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Br. Guy Consolmagno is both a Jesuit brother and a planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory, which he has directed since 2016. Thanks to his Vatican connections, his work has sent him around the world several times to dozens of countries and every continent. In this talk he will share some of those adventures, from the meteorite fields of East Antarctica to the United Nations, and reflect on the larger meaning of our common experience as scientists… not only what we do, but why we do it.
Thanks to special guest:
Br. Guy J. Consolmagno, S.J. is the Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona; he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989. He is the curator of the Vatican Meteorite Collection and was the 2014 recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for outstanding communication by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.