Ryosuke Motani, Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology and Functional Paleoecology at University of California, Davis, will visit Iowa State University on October 10-11, 2024. Professor Motani's lecture, "Mass Extinctions of the Past and Future: Are We in a Mass Extinction Era?", will be held on Thursday, October 10 at 6:00pm CT in the Sun Room, Memorial Union. The lecture is free and open to the public.