A Longing to Understand
A One–Woman Play performed by Jane Cox
Wednesday, 17 Oct 2007 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Jane Cox is a professor and stage director in the Iowa State University Theatre Program. She has been involved with over two hundred-fifty productions as an actress, designer, or director. Her one-woman shows have been performed in over twenty states as well as at the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. "The Longing to Understand" is the story of Barbara McClintock, the maize geneticist who discovered mobile genetic elements called transposons, or "jumping genes," in corn. In 1983, at the age of eighty-one, McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for this work. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Programs for Women in Science and Engineering
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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