Jones Visiting Lecturer - Dr. Gloria Mark, Author, psychologist, and UC Irvine professor

Author, psychologist, and Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine will discuss the impact of digital media on attention span—and provide strategies for restoring balance in the digital age.

How people interact with information technology on a day-to-day basis—and how it impacts their attention span, moods, and stress levels—is a topic that Gloria Mark has been passionately researching for nearly two decades. On April 15, the author, psychologist, and Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of Informatics at University of California, Irvine, will be visiting Lafayette College to deliver this year’s Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Visiting Lecture. She will not only discuss her findings, but also provide strategies for reigniting the ability to focus.

The 2024 Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Visiting Lecture will be free and open to the public. The talk will be delivered April 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Colton Chapel. A Q&A session and subsequent light reception will follow the lecture. Registration is requested: Register here. For questions about the event, please contact Aimee Torrisi, Office of the President, at torrisia@lafayette.edu.