Knight Campus welcomes New York Times bestselling author and animator for the fall term Entrepreneur Speaker Series

The fall term Entrepreneurship Speaker Series welcomes Jorge Cham with his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination" at 3 pm on Oct. 9 at the EMU Ballroom.

Jorge is the best-selling and Emmy-nominated creator of PHD Comics, the popular ongoing comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the celebrated animated series Elinor Wonders Why, which airs on PBS Kids and in 78 countries around the world. He is the co-author of the award-winning book We Have No Idea (and its follow-up FAQ-U), and the co-host of the iHeart Radio show Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. He is also the co-founder of PHDtv, a video science and discovery outreach collaborative, and the author of the upcoming books Oliver's Great Big Universe and Out of Your Mind.

Jorge, who is originally from Panama, earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from Stanford University and was an Instructor and Research Associate at Caltech from 2003-2005. In his lecture, he will recount his experiences bringing humor into the lives of millions of stressed out academics and tells stories from his travels to over 300 universities and research centers in the US and across the world. Thought-provoking yet humorous, Jorge Cham's talk will examine the source of academics' anxieties, explore the myth of procrastination, and help academics figure out how to convey what they've learned to the outside world.

This Knight Campus event will also be co-sponsored by both the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Journalism and Communication.

Please note: All comic art is copyrighted material and used with permission from its creator, Jorge Cham.