Annual Sigma Xi Banquet Approaching

You are cordially invited to the 13th Annual Sigma Xi banquet and lecture to be held on Thursday, March 25, 2010 in the University Ballroom at the MLK, Jr. University Union. Distinguished Sigma Xi Lecturer Dr. Emily Tobey will give a free public lecture “Frankenstein: How physics, literature and theatre led to a scientific success” at 7 PM Thursday after the 5 PM banquet.

Dr. Tobey is a Nelle C. Johnston Chair in Communication Disorders in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Tobey received her undergraduate and master’s degree in speech-language pathology from New Mexico State University and Louisiana State University Medical Center. Her doctorate in speech science was obtained at the City University of New York in 1981. She has been employed as teacher of the deaf in the Orleans Parish School System in New Orleans, in addition, to her previous employment at the Louisiana State University Medical Center as an instructor, assistant professor, associate professor and professor in the Departments of Communication Disorders, Removable Prosthodontics, and Otorhinolaryngology. She has served as a researcher at Haskins Laboratories and Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory of the South. Her current interests lie in the role of auditory feedback on the development and maintenance of speech and language.

To attend the banquet, which will be a Cajun food delight including catfish, blackened chicken, and sausage jambalaya, please send $16.00 check payable to Sigma Xi to Dr. Brenda Wilson, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences to be received by Thursday, March 22, 2010. Banquet tickets at the door will be $20.00.

For more information see the Sigma Xi page.