The Alchemy of Us: How Technology Shaped Us with Author Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D.

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This talk will follow the brief Annual Meeting of the Guilford Library Association.

In this talk, scientist and science writer, Ainissa Ramirez, Ph.D., will discuss her new book The Alchemy of Us, which won the CT Book Award and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.  This book unfolds how simple inventions shaped society. Ramirez will illuminate how everyday objects around us had a hand in changing language, politics, and even our bodies.

Dr. Ramirez received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and her doctorate from Stanford, both in materials science and engineering. She began her career as a scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and later joined the faculty at Yale. She now focuses all of her energy as a “science evangelist” with a mission of making science understandable to audiences of all ages.  She lives in New Haven, CT.

Copies of The Alchemy of Us will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Breakwater Books.

There will be a brief business meeting with the Guilford Library Association prior to the start of the program. 

This program is free and open to all.

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