Sitting with Jonah Lehrer, are, from left, honors students Jessica Bejian, program coordinator Beth Donaghey, and honors students Allison Geissert and Vanessa Colomba.

Writer, magazine editor and former Rhodes Scholar Jonah Lehrer, author of the recent “Proust was a Neuroscientist,” shared dinner Wednesday, April 2 at La Boniche with students in the Honors Program, following his presentation to the Honors Workshop. The meal discussion, according to Honors Program Director Doreen Arcus, was designed to “give students the chance to connect with the author in a personal setting, discussing such topics as what it’s like to be a Rhodes Scholar and how to find a niche in the modern job market.”

Lehrer’s new book, which has been purchased for reading by Honors Program students, details the foreshadowing of modern discoveries in neuroscience by the creative works of such a range of artists as Proust, Walt Whitman, Paul Cezanne, Igor Stavinsky and chef Auguste Escoffier.

Lehrer, 25, a graduate of Columbia University, is editor at large for SEED magazine. A contributor to NPR, NOVA and Nature magazine, he has studied at Oxford and worked in the laboratory of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Eric Kandel.