April 01, 2008 - April 01, 2008
The UMass Lowell Honors Program will host its first annual spring lecture featuring Jonah Lehrer, author of the recent “Proust was a Neuroscientist,” a book that details the foreshadowing of discoveries by modern neuroscience in the writings and creative works of individuals such as author Marcel Proust, poet Walt Whitman, chef Auguste Escoffier, artist Paul Cezanne, and composer Igor Stravinski.