Hemant Mehta’s talk, Improving the Atheist Image, was covered twice by the IDS (once the day day of, and once the day after).

Here’s the first article. And here’s the follow-up article.

Location: Fine Arts 015

Hemant Mehta, author of "I Sold My Soul On eBay"

Description: Hemant Mehta is the Chair of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) Board of Directors.
He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he graduated with honors in both Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He is now earning his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University.

He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and is also an SSA representative to the Secular Coalition for America.
More recently, Hemant received national attention, including being featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, for his work as the “eBay Atheist.”
Hemant’s blog can be read at FriendlyAtheist.com and his book “I Sold My Soul on eBay” (WaterBrook Press) was published in 2007.
He currently works as a high school Math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago.

(Room reserved from 7pm; talk starts at 7:30pm.)

Location: Wonderlab Museum

Description: The group is going on an outing to Wonderlab Museum of Science & Technology during the day on Sunday.  Instead of an evening meeting, we’ll be meeting on campus at 12:45pm and going over to visit from 1-5pm.  We’ll go out and get some food in the area afterwards.

The campus meeting spot is in the circle drive in front of the IMU.  If you want to come and/or can drive, email secular@indiana.edu.  The cost of museum admission is $7.