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Mindful Tech Author Lecture with Dr. David Levy

The Center for Faculty Excellence and UNO Libraries have partnered to bring Dr. David Levy, author of Mindful Tech, to UNO on Tuesday, October 3, 2017.

  • date: 10/03/17
  • time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • location: Mammel Hall Auditorium • maps
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Dr. David Levy, author of Mindful Tech, will provide a free lecture on UNO’s Scott Campus Tuesday, October 3. Levy will discuss how we can learn to use digital technologies more effectively and with less stress using contemplative practices such as mindfulness.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pacific Street parking garage, as well as in general-use surface parking stalls between the Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) building and Mammel Hall.

Registration is requested for all events. To RSVP, contact the Center for Faculty Excellence at unofacdev@unomaha.edu or 402.554.2427.

Dr. Levy’s book has been identified as this year’s Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) book selection. A limited number of copies are freely available from the CFE office for UNO-affiliated faculty and staff. To learn more about CFE's Minful Tech programming click here.

About the Author

David M. Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington in Seattle. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London. For nearly twenty years he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and print to digital media. At the University of Washington since 2000, he has focused on bringing mindfulness training and other contemplative practices to address problems of information overload and acceleration. His book, Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, was published in January 2016 by Yale University Press.