SOLD OUT - Dr. Temple Grandin - "Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society"

Please note: This event is sold out and the waitlist is at capacity. We will be synchronously livestreaming Dr. Grandin's talk into the Hunt Library auditorium (1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC). Seats in the auditorium (capacity 400) are unticketed and will be available first-come, first-serve. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Attendees in the auditorium will be welcome to attend the post-talk booksigning with Dr. Grandin as well. The livestream will also be available with an NC State Unity ID at https://delta.online.ncsu.edu/online/Play/e8c736eb9a784bac82bd0f60c186d54a1d.

Dr. Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her talk, "Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society," is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Come early to see a "show and tell" presented by the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center including items from its animal welfare collections, especially materials relating to humane slaughter, livestock management, and the history of the humane movement.

The following books by Dr. Grandin will be available on site for purchase from Quail Ridge Books: The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. Dr. Grandin will sign books purchased at the event following the program.

Dr. Grandin has designed facilities located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on their animals during handling. She has also authored over 400 articles in both scientific journals and livestock periodicals on animal handling, welfare, and facility design. She is the author of "Thinking in Pictures", "Livestock Handling and Transport," "Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals," and "Humane Livestock Handling." Her books "Animals in Translation" and "Animals Make Us Human" were both on the New York Times best seller list. Her life story has also been made into an HBO movie titled "Temple Grandin, staring Claire Danes," which won seven Emmy awards and a Golden Globe. The movie shows her life as a teenager and how she started her career.