The Classics Department announces the second in a series of lectures by classics students who have gone on to interesting careers. Dr. Luigi Maria De Luca, will present the Winslow Lecture: Why Classics, Why Latin? . . . A Scientist's Perspective, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 4:10 p.m., in the Red Pit (Kirner-Johnson Hall).
Dr. Luigi De Luca, who holds an M.A. in classics from the University of Maryland and teaches Latin at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Bethesda, Md., is also head of the differentiation control section of the Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion at the National Cancer Institute.
Born in southern Italy, he graduated from the Collegio Capece of Maglie and received his doctorate from the Institute of Biological Chemistry at the University of Pavia. Before moving to the National Cancer Center, he was director of the clinical laboratory at the Institute for Tuberculosis Research at the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan and then research associate and instructor in the department of Nutrition and Food Science at MIT. The author or coauthor of more than 140 scientific publications and a member of numerous scientific societies, he has been visiting professor at the Universities of Tokyo, Pavia, Rome, Italy, Oslo, and Naples. He has received the Mead-Johnson Award from the American Institute of Nutrition, has been president of the NCI Assembly of Scientists, and has been a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Bellagio, Italy. His talk is the second in a series by classics students who have gone on to interesting careers.
This event is open to the public, free of charge. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please call or write to Carl A. Rubino of the Department of Classics (859-4283, crubino@hamilton.edu).
