The University of Akron (UA) Synapse Art and Science Series will, for the first time, join the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (NEOMFA) in presenting a lecture from award-winning author Adam Gopnik on Thursday, March 22, at 7 pm in the UA Student Union Theatre. Free and open to the public, Gopnik’s talk will reflect on the essential intersections of science and the humanities, from Galileo and Shakespeare, through Darwin and the English novelists of his time.

Gopnik has received three National Magazine awards as a columnist for the New Yorker, a job Gopnik began in 1986, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. He is a best-selling novelist, with published works ranging from essay collections about Paris and food to children’s novels. In 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Recently, Gopnik released his first musical, “The Most Beautiful Room In New York,” which opened in New Haven in 2017. On top of all of this, Gopnik is an active lecturer who has spoken in almost every major city in the nation.