Join the Undergraduate Library Services and the Center for Disability Information & Referral on March 23, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Wells Library E174 for an evening with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor in honor of Women's History and Disability Awareness Month. Dr. Taylor is a member of the Kinesiology faculty in the school of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER).

Jill Bolte Taylor's book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, describes her experience with stroke and recovery. Dr. Taylor shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the right and left halves of her brain. Having lost the categorizing, organizing, describing, judging and critically analyzing skills of her left brain, along with its language centers and thus ego center, Jill's consciousness shifted away from normal reality.

Based upon her academic training and personal experience, Jill helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can 'tend the garden of our minds' to maximize our quality of life. Jill pushes the envelope in our understanding about how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel, and how we react to life's circumstances.


What: An evening with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

When: March 23, 2007 from 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Where: Wells Library Media Showing Room, E174.