UA Lecture Features Internal ‘Clock’ Expert

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Lynn Hasher, professor of psychology and marketing at the University of Toronto, will be the guest speaker for the annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture at The University of Alabama on Friday, April 13. The public lecture begins at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall on the UA campus.

Her lecture topic is titled “Aging, Inhibitory Control, and Circadian Rhythms.” This talk includes discussion of impacts on memory and the human body’s internal “clock.”

Hasher earned her doctorate from the University of California-Berkeley in 1970 and has served on the faculties of Carleton University, Temple University, and Duke University. She is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, a past recipient of the James McKeen Cattell Fellowship and past recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

The Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture is sponsored by UA’s department of psychology, in memory of the former UA psychology professor and director of UA’s psychological clinic. Dinoff served in that capacity from 1963 until his death in 1982.

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