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Two Years of JWST: New Discoveries across the Universe

Tuesday, March 26, 7 pm

Adult Lecture Series at the County Library

Presented virtually by the County Library's Taylorsville branch 

Dr. Josh Lothringer will provide an update on what NASA’s newest and biggest space telescope, JWST, has been observing in its first two years of operation.

Dr. Lothringer is an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD. He was previously an assistant professor of physics at Utah Valley University from 2021 to 2023. He received his BA in astronomy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2014, and PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in 2019. He is the principal investigator of four Hubble Space Telescope programs and two James Webb Space Telescope programs studying the atmospheres of planets, brown dwarfs, and stars.

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A Night with the First Mexican-American Prima Ballerina

Monday, April 15, 7 pm

Adult Lecture Series at the County Library

Presented virtually by the County Library's Taylorsville branch 

Evelyn Cisneros-Legate will discuss how she overcame racial discrimination as the only person of color at San Francisco Ballet and how she utilized her background and cultural understanding to catapult her career.

Considered one of America's leading ballerinas and the first Mexican-American principal ballerina, Ms. Cisneros-Legate is a renowned dance educator, former principal at Boston Ballet School, and recent honoree as Utah Business Woman of the Year. She danced for many years at San Francisco Ballet under the direction of Lew Christensen (brother of Ballet West founder Willam Christensen) and later under Helgi Tomasson. Ms. Cisneros-Legate holds an honorary doctorate from both Mills College and the University of California at Monterey Bay. Today, as director of the Fredrick Quinney Lawson Ballet West Academy, she trains the next generation of dancers and works to ensure the future of the art of ballet.

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