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Pioneering forestry researcher Suzanne Simard to receive the 2023 Lewis Thomas Prize

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April 17, 2023

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Caspary Auditorium

2023 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science

The 2023 awardee, Suzanne Simard, is a forest ecologist and author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. She receives Rockefeller’s science writing award for her book on the underground networks of forests and their far-reaching implications on climate change.

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