1:00 Behind the Scenes of Books By the River / 2:30 Flying Dinosaurs: Origin of Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Caroline E. Sawyer
Producer, Book By The River & Associate Professor, Communication Studies, USCB
Behind the Scenes of Book By The River
Caroline Sawyer and some of the students that work on the show will take us behind the scenes of the award-winning national public television show Book By The River to learn how this production is used to educate the next generation of public media makers.

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Light Refreshments and Social Time

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Scott Persons
Associate professor of paleobiology and curator of The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, CofC
Flying Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds
New life has been breathed into an old theory: that modern birds are the last surviving dinosaurs. Paleontologists now have the feathered specimens to prove this evolutionary connection. Dr. Scott Persons will explore the science and the scientific controversies that led to our current understanding of how dinosaurs took to the air.

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