Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY-  Timothy Groseclose, professor of American Politics at the University of California Los Angeles and author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, will deliver this year's Donald J. Sutherland Lecture - a talk entitled “Leaning to the Left”- on Thursday, March 15, 2012, 2:20-3:45 p.m. at Student Center Theater in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center.

Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA where he holds joint appointments in the political science and economics departments.  He has published more than two dozen articles in scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the American Political Science Review.  He holds a PhD in Political Economics from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

The 2012 Donald J. Sutherland Lecture, named for the former trustee who endowed the annual event, is co-sponsored by the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Political Science and the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call (516) 463-5622.

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