Reading, Pa.- Author Lauri Lebo will present a lecture, Denying Darwin: A Discussion of Faith, Science and Deception in America, on Monday, November 8, 2010, at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Memorial Chapel. Lebo’s book will be available for sale prior to the lecture.

Lebo, author of Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America (2005), has been a journalist for 20 years. As part of an investigative reporting team that shed light on two forgotten civil rights–era murders, she helped to unravel the accepted history of her town. As the York Daily Record’s education reporter, she covered the Tammy Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover (Del.) Area School District intelligent design trial in 2004.

Lebo will discuss much of the behind-the-scenes elements of the first constitutional test of intelligent design in the historic First Amendment case of Kitzmiller v. Dover. She will explore both the history and future of religiously motivated attacks on evolution and education, and will relate how this issue has become so divisive, not only to the town of Dover, but to our whole nation.

This event is part of a year-long “Celebration of the Sciences” at Albright College. In anticipation of the Grand Opening of Albright College’s new Science Center in fall 2011, events such as lectures by prominent alumni and professionals in the sciences and exciting research presentations by faculty and students are being planned throughout the year. For more information and an up-to-date calendar of events, visit www.albright.edu/sciencecelebration/

For more information about the event or disabled assistance, please contact the Biology Department at 610-921-7720.  Memorial Chapel is located on the Albright College campus at 13th & Union Streets, Reading, Pa.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Two-thirds of students graduate with dual/individualized majors in more than 200 different combinations. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.