TINTON FALLS — Patrick Regan, senior correspondent for science and technology at New Jersey Public Television and Radio, will deliver the 2008 Norman J. Field Lecture in Science at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2.
The lecture, titled “License to Explore,” will take place in the Performing Arts Center auditorium at Monmouth Regional High School, 1 Norman J. Field Way, Tinton Falls.
Refreshments and informal discussion will follow the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
A graduate of Monmouth Regional High School, Regan has spent the past seven years as head science reporter for New Jersey Public Television and Radio, where he has had a license to explore laboratories in pretty much every field of science and engineering.
Regan will discuss some of the most important scientific research of our times, all emerging from a wide variety of New Jersey-based institutions. Ranging from measurements of the far reaches of the universe to robotic and computer-based explorations of the deep innards of our planet, the projects he will describe touch on many of the most basic and intriguing questions about our world.
Regan is NJN’s senior correspondent for science and technology. He covers news about scientific research, technological innovation, and math and science education, inviting viewers inside New Jersey’s academic and industrial laboratories and offering insight into a wide range of issues.
His science and technology report is seen every Wednesday and Friday on “NJN News.” Regan currently hosts “Sounds of Science,” a monthly radio and podcast program that makes scientific news and issues accessible through conversations with leading researchers.
Regan joined NJN in 2001 from Lucent Technologies, where he served as a science and technology writer, magazine editor and spokesperson for Bell Labs.
The Norman J. Field Lectures in Science were established in 1991 in memory of Dr. Norman J. Field and are co-sponsored by the Monmouth County Section of the American Chemical Society, the Monmouth Junior Science Symposium, the Monmouth County School Boards Association and by the Rutgers University Chapter of Sigma Xi, an international scientific research society.
Field was widely recognized for his contributions in the area of public education. He maintained a lifelong personal and professional interest in scientific issues. The mission of the lecture series is to promote interest in science and science education among both younger and older members of the community.
Individual donations are solicited to help defray the unfunded costs of the lecture series. Donations should be made out to American Chemical Society – Monmouth County Section, with the notation “Field Lectures” on the check, and mailed to:
The Norman J. Field Lectures in Science, c/o Ken Field, 108 Pleasant St. No. 3, Cambridge, MA 02139.
For more information on the Norman J. Field Lecture in Science, visit http://www.FieldLecture.org.