Jill Bolte Taylor to Discuss 'How to Get Your Brain to Do What You Want'
Jill Bolte Taylor.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Jill Bolte Taylor, the best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, in the Hillside Auditorium at the University of Arkansas.
Her lecture, “How to Get Your Brain to Do What You Want,” is the first in the fall semester’s student Distinguished Lecture Series.
No tickets are required, but seating is limited. Overflow seating will be available in the second auditorium with a video link for the audience.
Copies of My Stroke of Insight will be sold at the event, and there will be a book-signing after the lecture.
Taylor was a highly regarded brain researcher when she suffered a stroke in 1996. It took her eight years to completely recover, but her training and knowledge of how the brain works made her uniquely able to analyze and learn from what she went through. Her “stroke of insight” started her on a mission to help others experience the world more fully, using both sides of their brains.
About Distinguished Lecture Series: The Distinguished Lecture Series is a student-sponsored program. Speakers are chosen by a committee of students, faculty and staff, and the events are funded by a student-approved fee, appropriated by the Programs Allocation Board.
About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.
Contacts
Steve Voorhies, manager, media relations
University Relations
479-575-3583,
voorhies@uark.edu
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