"The Birth & Death of Stars" is subject of Mounts Lecture

Peoria, Illinois . . . November 3, 2003 . . . "The Birth & Death of Stars" will be the topic of the 2003 T.L. Mounts Lecture at Bradley University on November 18. Dr. James B. Kaler, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Illinois, will give the lecture at 7 p.m. in Olin Hall room 168. It is free and open to the public.

Dr. Kaler has been at the University of Illinois since 1964 and has published more than 120 papers in his research area, which involves dying stars. He has written for a variety of popular and semi-popular magazines, was a consultant for Time-Life books on the "Voyage through the Universe" series, appears frequently on Illinois television and radio and has published several books, including Stars and their Spectra, The Ever-Changing Sky, and Extreme Stars.

The T.L. Mounts Lectureship Series is presented by the NCAUR Ag Lab, the Bradley University Department of Chemistry, and the Kiwanis Club of Peoria. It is named for the late Timothy L. Mounts, a Research Leader of the Food Quality and Safety Research Unit at the NCAUR Ag Lab, an alumnus of Bradley, and a member of the Kiwanis Club of Peoria.