Ed Yong: The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses

Ed Yong takes audiences through the hidden realms of animal senses in this lecture based on his upcoming book, “An Immense World.” With wit and humor, learn the amazing ways in which animals perceive aspects of the world to which we are oblivious.

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About the Speaker

Ed Yong is the bestselling author of An Immense World (Random House, 2022). He was named “the most important and impactful journalist” of 2020 by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and he was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his “lucid, definitive” coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. He anticipated the course of the virus, the complex challenges that the U.S. faced, and the government’s disastrous failure in its response. He has also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, the Victor Cohn Prize for medical-science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism, the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association, and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting. A longtime science reporter for The Atlantic, his work has also appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others. In 2024, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for his trailblazing science writing.

This event is a part of the Greg and Julie Flynn Cogut Institute Speaker Series, which brings high-profile speakers in the humanities to the Brown University campus. Each visit includes a public lecture and a separate seminar-style meeting with undergraduate students.

Host or Publisher The Cogut Institute for the Humanities