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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University March 15, 2004 | Vol. 33 No. 26
 
Coffey Talk: A St. Patrick's Day Tradition

By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette

Donald Coffey seemingly never tires of talking about his favorite subject, humanity. The Johns Hopkins professor of urology, oncology, pathology, and pharmacology and molecular sciences will once again dissect the human condition in the 11th biannual St. Patrick's Day Lecture, "Science, Creativity and Human Destiny."

The event will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, at Turner Auditorium, East Baltimore campus.

Through a series of slides and musings, Coffey will challenge the audience to consider, Who are we? Where are we? and Where are we going? The audio-visual presentation is designed to present diverse views to unresolved issues, such as how humans have developed, and why they are conscious of the universe in ways that other forms of life are not. Coffey said the presentation, which will feature hundreds of provocative images, is intended to be fun and informative.

"I try to break it all down to fundamentals so that everyone in the audience can understand it," said Coffey, who gave the first of his humanity talks to a youth group in 1979, following the death of a student. "The presentation races through the entire universe: stream theory to atoms and good vs. evil to the question of life beyond the Earth."

Why a Saint Patrick's Day Lecture?

"I'm Irish, and they told me 22 years ago to pick a day to give this talk," he said. "So I did."

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