The Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts hosts “Science Face to Face” with NPR Science Friday radio host Ira Flatow in conversation with Professor Erick Kandel of Columbia University on Wednesday, October 21, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia, Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University’s School of Medicine, Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. At Columbia Univeristy, Kandel organized the neuroscience curriculum. He is an editor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field. He recently has written a book on the brain for the general public titled, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind.

Eric Kandel’s research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia (sea slugs) and mice. More recently, he has used animal models, including mice, to study memory disorders and mental illness. Kandel has received 18 honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2000.

This event, which will take place in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor is free but, reservations are required by emailing langscience@newschool.edu .