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UCSD SOCIOLOGIST, PSYCHIATRIST DESIGNATED AS FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURERS FOR 2000

Steven Shapin, professor of sociology, and Larry R. Squire, professor of psychiatry, neurosciences and psychology, have been selected as 1998/99 Faculty Research Lecturer awardees at the University of California, San Diego.

Shapin will present his lecture-"How to Live Forever, the Lessons of History"-at 4 p.m. April 26 in Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium, Institute of the Americas. A reception at University House will follow.

Squire will talk on "Memory Systems of the Brain" at 4 p.m. May 23 in Garren Auditorium, Basic Science Building. He also will be honored at a reception to follow at University House.

Shapin is regarded as one of the most eminent and original historians and sociologists of science in the world. He has played a major role in bringing the insights and methods of the sociologist into the practice of the history of science, and has written on a range of subjects including physics, mathematics and biology, as well as on such "rejected" sciences as phrenology. His most recent major book, The Scientific Revolution, has been translated into six languages and made the New York Times top 10 best sellers list among scholarship books for 1997.

Squire, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, is recognized internationally as a major contributor to understanding of both the organization and formal structure of memory, as well as its neural basis. The ideas and facts emanating from Squire's laboratory currently serve as a framework for guiding neuroscience research on memory in many laboratories around the world. He has synthesized current ideas about learning and memory in a 1999 book co-authored with Eric Kandel, Memory, From Mind to Molecules.