<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(238,236,235)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px">Join us on the Path to Totality, April 8, with the presentation:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(238,236,235)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px">“Nature's Cosmic Coincidence: The April 8 total solar Eclipse” with Dr. Simon Steel, Astronomer with the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) Institute</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.6;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(238,236,235);margin:0px 0px 1.25rem 1.25rem"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;line-height:1.5">Apr. 8 at 11 a.m.</li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;line-height:1.5">Ward Hall room 110 and also on Zoom: <a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/93077937849" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(207,16,45);text-decoration-line:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/93077937849</a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(238,236,235)">At the very moment this presentation begins, the Moon’s shadow will be racing towards North America at 2000 mph. Total eclipses are a stunning bucket list experience, but the fact they happen at all is one of nature’s most amazing coincidences. We will talk about the history of eclipses, why they are common and rare at the same time, and what they can teach us about the nature of our very own star, the Sun.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(238,236,235)"><img role="presentation" src="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/_images/plattslife/simon-steel-400px.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="193" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; background-position: 50% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat; word-break: break-word; padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0px; margin: 0px 1.5rem 0px 0px; float: left;">Dr. Simon Steel is an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. He received his Ph.D. in observational astrophysics studying star formation and galaxies, and was a lecturer in astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts before joining the SETI Institute.</p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Genie Babb, PhD (she, her)</div><div>Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Professor of English</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">101 Ward Hall</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">(o) 518.564.3150<br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=101+Broad+Street+Plattsburgh,+NY+12901&entry=gmail&source=g" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">101 Broad Street</a><br></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font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