Date & Time: October 4, 2025 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Location: Earle Hall, Honors College Lounge

Join the Honors College for an alumni Dean’s Circle!

Craig Carson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, will lead us in a conversation about Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers’ novel Playground.

Honors College students in classroom

“Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.”

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