Jersey City – Dr. Brian C. McCarthy ‘82 will be the featured speaker at the 56th Annual Mendel Lecture on Thursday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in Pope Lecture Hall. His talk is entitled History, Ecology, and Restoration of the Nearly Extinct American Chestnut.
Dr. McCarthy received his BA in Biology from Saint Peter’s College, an MS in Botany at Ohio University in 1984 and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is a professor in the Environmental and Plant Biology Department at Ohio University.
The Mendel Lecture is the longest running lecture series in the College’s history. This year’s event is co-sponsored by the Biology Department and the Mendel Biology Society, a student-run organization, and will take place in the Pope Lecture Hall on the Jersey City campus.
Saint Peter’s College is the Jesuit College of New Jersey. Founded in 1872, Saint Peter’s has an enrollment of approximately 3,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The main campus is located in Jersey City. The College has a branch campus for adults in Englewood Cliffs, NJ and also offers courses at various corporate sites at the Jersey City waterfront and in South Amboy, NJ.
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