W. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. McCray’s most recent book (2013) is The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, which won the Watson and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” Besides authoring three other books about the history of science and technology, he also recently co-edited a collection of essays called Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and the American Counterculture which the University of Chicago published in 2016. Please fill out the Chapter-Sanctioned Leadership Credit Form (https://forms.gle/di5ztLVip2iCwnRHA) within 1 week of this event to receive credit for your attendance. Thank you!