Spotlight on Science, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m.: The Library Foundation of Newport Beach presents the free lecture series Spotlight on Science with Paul Robertson, PhD, UCI Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Robertson will be speaking on “Earth 2.0: How to Find it, Why We May Already Have, and What’s Next”. Robertson was a NASA Sagan Fellow at Penn State University and a member of the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. His current research focuses on the development of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder. This research avenue advances his overall goal of finding potentially habitable exoplanets around nearby stars.
Registration for this event is available through the Library Foundation website at https://libraryfoundationnb.org.
The Library Foundation of Newport Beach was established in 1989 as a collaborative public-private partnership with the City of Newport Beach. It funds valuable library resources, programs, and services, and engages the community through the creation and sponsorship of literary, cultural, and intellectual programs. The Library Foundation raised over $2.2 million in private funds for the construction of the Central Library, which opened in 1994, demonstrating widespread community support for the library system. Over the past decade, the Foundation has contributed more than $7 million to fund programs, technologies, and services for the 1.2 million people who use the four Newport Beach Library branches annually. The Foundation just completed the Beyond Books Campaign to raise 50 percent of the cost of construction for the new civic auditorium, Witte Hall, which opened on the weekend of July 10-12, 2026.
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