About Speaker

Prof Dave Pruett is a former NASA researcher; an award-winning computational scientist; an emeritus professor of applied mathematics at James Madison University (JMU); the originator of “From Black Elk to Black Holes, a Templeton-award-winning Honors seminar at JMU; and the author of Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit (Praeger 2012, paperback 2016). “A love letter to the cosmos” twelve years in gestation, Reason and Wonder synthesizes modern scientific insights with ancient spiritual wisdom to present—in the words of internationally renowned religion scholar Ursula King—“a vision of audacity and grandeur that will change your thinking forever.”