Robert Sapolsky, a science writer, biologist, neuroscientist and stress expert, will present his lecture “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: Stress and Health” Thursday, Sept. 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Colwell Playhouse.
The event is part of the Fenton-Rhodes Lecture on Proactive Wellness and is the keynote lecture for the Pygmalion Festival. More information may be found at the Krannert Center website.
Sapolsky is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. In 2008, National Geographic and PBS aired an hour-long special on stress featuring Sapolsky and his research on the subject. In addition to “A Primate’s Memoir,” which won the 2001 Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in nonfiction, Sapolsky has written three other books, including “The Trouble with Testosterone,” “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” and “Monkeyluv and Other Essays on our Lives as Animals.”
Sapolsky was awarded Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2008. His articles have appeared in publications such as Discover and The New Yorker, and he writes a biweekly column for The Wall Street Journal entitled “Mind & Matter.” He is currently working on a book to be titled “Human Aggression, Human Compassion and the Ambiguities of Biology.”
