Harvard Psychologist, Author to Lecture on Memory and Cognition at Hamilton College

Clinton, N.Y. – Daniel L. Schacter, professor of psychology at Harvard University, will give the John Rybash Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 8, at 4 p.m. in the Hamilton College Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. Schacter will discuss his work in the field of memory and cognition in his talk titled “Constructive memory: Remembering the past and imagining the future.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Schacter earned his undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina and his doctorate in psychology from the University of Toronto. He was recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship from 1998-99 and he received the MERIT Award from National Institute on Aging in 2000. His books include Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and The Past (1996), which won the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association in 1997. Schacter also wrote The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (2001), which was one of the New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year and also won the William James Book Award in 2003.

The John Rybash Memorial Lecture Series was established in honor of John Rybash, Hamilton College professor of psychology from 1991-1999, by his family, friends, colleagues and former students. Rybash died of cancer in June, 1999, at the age of 51.

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