LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Freeman Dyson (left), professor of physics emeritus at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will give the spring keynote presentation for the University Theme Program on Tuesday, March 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Center Theater on Rider's Lawrenceville campus.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, highlights a year in which students and faculty began an in-depth look at the many different aspects of the theme "2001: To the Millennium and Beyond." A reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, also located in the Student Center, will follow the lecture.

The topic of Dyson's presentation will be "Science as a Craft Industry," addressing the impact of science on the nature and number of jobs now and in the near future.

Dismissing prevailing fears and drawing on the experiences of his own children, Dyson will argue that science today is producing more jobs for skilled workers than ever before in such fields as toolmaking, desktop publishing, and biotechnology.

Dyson, who was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Rider in 1989, had his article "The Twenty-First Century" featured in the University Theme handbook presented to incoming students last August. He has received many awards during his distinguished scientific career, including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1981 and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science in 1985.

Commissioned by the Science Book Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write Disturbing Universe in 1979, Dyson is also the author of Weapons and Hope (1984), Origins of Life (1986), Infinite in All Directions (1988), and Imagined Worlds (1997).

Rider University's Lawrenceville campus is located five miles south of Princeton and three miles north of Trenton on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, NJ. The campus is one-half mile south of exit 7A of Interstate 95.