Dr. Edward ‘Rocky’ Kolb gave a superb presentation to a packed house of 270 people in Conron Hall on Thursday, October 4. The 2012 Elizabeth Laird Memorial Lecture was titled “Mysteries of the Dark Universe”. Dr. Kolb gave a wonderful history of the search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in our visible universe, and he also mapped out the most likely future scenarios and candidates for the discovery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.