Artists see the world in many ways. This talk will briefly describe the complex factors that influence climate and then focus on how landscape painters chose to describe the world around them during a recent climate event called the “Little Ice Age.”
 

Julius Sigler ’62, ’15 DSc is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Lynchburg, where he taught for nearly 50 years. A native of Florida, he graduated from Lynchburg College and earned his graduate degrees at the University of Virginia. He pursued further study at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. He and his wife, Jan, have lived in Lynchburg since 1967. They have three adult sons and two wonderful grandchildren.

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