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New Rochelle, NY, March 22, 2001 - Dr. Peter Dodson, a paleontologist and Professor of Anatomy and Geology at the University of Pennsylvania, will present "Dinosaur Studies on Four Continents," as a lecturer in the Thomas G. Bullen, CFC Memorial Lecture Series in Science and Technology at Iona College. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place on Thursday, March 29 at 12 noon in Joyce Auditorium on the College's New Rochelle campus, 715 North Avenue.

Dr. Dodson received his Ph.D from Yale University where he studies with Dr. John Ostrom, a seminal figure in the dinosaur renaissance that began in the 1970s. Dr. Dodson has made expeditions to China, Madagascar, Egypt and Argentina, as well as to the western United States, where he discovered a new horned dinosaur in Montana described as Avaceratops lammersi. He is co-editor of The Dinosauria, (University of California Press, 1990), voted the best Geosciences reference book of the year, author of The Horned Dinosaurs, (Princeton University Press, 1996) and several children's books including An Alphabet of Dinosaurs (Scholastic, 1995).

The Thomas G. Bullen, CFC Memorial Lecture Series in Science and Technology 2000-2001 is sponsored by the Josephine Lawrence Hopkins Foundation.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Victor A. Stanionis, Physics Department, Iona College at (914) 633-2276.

For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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