Irene Pepperberg
Ethologist, Author
Irene Pepperberg is Adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University and Research Associate and Lecturer at Harvard. She has studied the cognitive and communicative ability of Grey parrots for over two decades. Her book, Alex and Me, a description of life with her famous subject, became a New York Times bestseller.
She has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim, Harry Frank Guggenheim, and Whitehall Foundations, the Radcliffe Institute; National Science Foundation grants, and the 2000 Selby Fellowship (Australian Academy of Sciences).
Past Events
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Avian Einsteins
Join a broad and distinguished panel of biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, musicians and writers, on an exploration of the striking parallels between bird and human brains.
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Matter: Stories of Atoms and Eves
Nobel-prize-winning scientists, renowned writers and esteemed artists tell on-stage stories about their personal relationship with science.
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