Human Genome Expert Gregory Stock to Speak at UNCW February 2
1/13/2004 12:00:00 AM
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WILMINGTON, N.C. – Dr. Gregory Stock, an expert on the implications of recent advances in reproductive biology, will speak at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2, at Kenan Auditorium on the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The lecture, “Enhancing the Human: Genomics, Science Fiction and Ethics Collide,” will be followed by a question and answer session, and a book signing. Stock’s lecture is the fourth of UNCW’s five-part Leadership Lecture Series.
Stock focuses on the realistic possibilities for human genetic manipulation and how these technologies will combine with increasingly sophisticated pharmaceutical interventions and ever more comprehensive and affordable genetic tests. This lecture invites the audience to think through the medical, social and ethical implications of these powerful technologies.
Stock directs the program on medicine, technology and society at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavior. He is a recognized expert on the larger implications of the Human Genome Project and related genomic technologies. Stock received a Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and was a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School on Public Policy.
Stock’s The Book of Questions, was a New York Times bestseller and has spawned several sequels targeting the future, kids, business and politics. His provocative new book, Redesigning Humans, looks at the intersection of genomics and reproduction. A bibliography featuring his work and related titles is available at UNCW’s Randall Library Web site at http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LLS/lls.html.
The Leadership Lecture Series is a Campus Activities and Involvement Center program designed to expose students to speakers who enlighten, challenge, inspire and demonstrate that all people have the ability to lead if they have the desire to make a difference. For more information about the lecture series, visit www.uncw.edu/arts.
All lectures are scheduled in UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets are free for UNCW students, faculty and staff, and $6 for the general public. To reserve tickets or for additional information about the Leadership Lecture Series, call the Kenan Auditorium box office at 910/962-3500, 800/732-3643 or visit www.uncw.edu/arts. Ticket office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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NOTE TO THE MEDIA: For additional information or for a comment call Shannon Hooker at 910/962-7600 or e-mail at hookers@uncw.edu
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