Kevin Guskiewicz, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the 2014 Bernard R. Ramsey Lecture Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in the theatre and atrium of the Tate Student Center. Open free to the public, the lecture will be followed by a reception at 8:30 p.m.
The founding director of UNC’s Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, Guskiewicz will discuss “Making Sport Safer Through Innovative Science.” A 2011 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award for his work on sport concussion, Guskiewicz also is director of UNC’s Center for the Study of Retired Athletes.
The Ramsey Lecture series is sponsored by the College of Education.