SCAS News - 19 August, 2024

News from the SCAS Community

Gísli Pálsson's recent book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk
and the Discovery of Extinction
(Princeton University Press, 2024) is among the
six books shortlisted for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.
The prize "celebrates the best popular science writing across the globe" and the
winning title will be revealed at a ceremony in the end of October. 

Gísli Pálsson was a Fellow in residence at the Collegium in the autumn of 1995
as well as in the spring of 2023.

Photo credits: Mikael Wallerstedt