Mary Roach – Esbenshade Series 2025-2026

Name: Mary Roach – Esbenshade Series 2025-2026
Start: 2025-11-12T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 215 5th St, Marietta, OH 45750-4033, United States

Schedule

Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

215 5th St, Marietta, OH 45750-4033, United States | Marietta, OH

Mary Roach
November 12, 2025 – McDonough Center, Marietta College
215 Fifth Street, Marietta, OH 45750
Seating is first come, first served.
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7 p.m.
McDonough Auditorium is Building #2 on the campus map. Free parking is available in the lot at Butler and Fourth St.
The author of eight acclaimed books, Mary Roach is known for Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law. Her upcoming ninth book, Replaceable You, will release in September 2025.
In this program, Roach shares hilarious anecdotes, mind-blowing facts, and unknown realities of the relationship between humans and the natural world around us in a fascinating talk based on Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.
Roach’s works have been published in 21 languages, and her second book, Spook, was a New York Times Notable Book. She has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy. She has also served as a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series, an Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium, and an advisor for Orion and Undark magazines. Roach has been a finalist for the Royal Society's Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award.
This event has been funded by the Frederica G. Esbenshade Memorial Fund, which provides
annual income for the purpose of bringing lectures, performing artists, and programs of diverse nature to the campus and community at large. The endowed fund was established in 1980 by Harry H Esbenshade Sr., and Harry H. Esbenshade Jr., husband and son, respectively, of the late Mrs. Esbenshade of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. All events are free and open to the public.