STEM Speaker Series: “Collecting fossils in the Sahara Desert of Mali” by Dr. Maureen O’Leary

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Clara Tran

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Interested in fossils? Spend an hour with our STEM speaker, Dr. Maureen O’Leary from the Renaissance School of Medicine, to learn about “Collecting fossils in the Sahara Desert of Mali.”

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 17 from 1pm-2pm

Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, E2340, second floor of the Melville Library

Professor O’Leary, a vertebrate paleontologist, will discuss her 20 years of field and laboratory work in West Africa where she has discovered dinosaurs, fossil mammals and other vertebrates and extinct plants. She will also discuss her role in the School of Medicine as an instructor of anatomy and comparative biology researcher.

Please register here and join us for this special event.