Prosanta Chakrabarty, the E.K. Hunter Chair for Communication in Science Research, Professor and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University, will visit James Madison University on October 22-23, 2026. Professor Chakrabarty's lecture, "Why Teaching and Understanding Evolution Still Matters," will be on Thursday, October 22, at 2:00 PM ET in Festival Ballroom C. The lecture is free and open to the public.