RAS Annual Meeting and Spring Lecture
April 22 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
RAS 2025 Spring Lecture Smith Frost Town
The Rochester Academy of Science Annual Meeting and Spring Lecture are Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. This live meeting (with Zoom remote) will be at the Rochester Institute of Technology Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Room 1125, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. After a brief introduction and report, the Annual RAS Officer election will conclude the business meeting. Note that you must have renewed your membership by March 31st to vote.
The Spring Lecture will follow the business meeting at 7:30PM. Our speaker is Dr. Alexander Smith, professor of Anthropology at SUNY Brockport. He is head of our RAS Anthropology Section. He leads the Archaeology project in partnership with the Rochester Museum & Science Center. This project is dedicated to the excavation and better understanding of an abandoned mill town known as “Frost Town”, located on what is now the Cumming Nature Center in South Bristol, NY. If time permits, Dr. Smith will also discuss his excavations of iron-age sites on Mediterranean islands such as Mallorca and Menorca.