[OKC] Save the dates - sustainability speakers visiting OU

[Shields, Susie]

2008 OU Dream Course Speakers Announced!

 

          Five distinguished speakers will visit the OU campus during
the

spring of 2008 to participate in the Dream Course speaker series

funded by a generous donation from the University President's office.

The speakers include Dr. Frank Popper of Rutgers University, Dr.

Deborah Popper of the City University of New York, Dr. Malcolm Hughes

of the University of Arizona, Dr. Jody Emel of Clark University, and

Dr. Thomas Wilbanks (a former chair of the OU Geography Department) of

Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

          The speakers will be on campus to participate in the
Sustainability

in the Southern Plains course to be taught by Dr. Scott Greene and Dr.

Fred Shelley during the upcoming spring semester. Each will

participate in two class meetings of the course, and each will give a

public lecture. All current and former students, alumni, and friends

of the Department are cordially invited to the public presentations.

 

Tuesday, February 5 or Wednesday, February 6: Public lecture by Dr.

Frank Popper, Rutgers University, and Dr. Deborah Popper, City
University 

of New York, "The Buffalo Commons in the Twenty-First Century," 

5:00 p.m., Art Museum Auditorium.

 

Wednesday, February 27: Public lecture by Dr. Malcolm Hughes,

University of Arizona, "Strange Times on Planet Earth," 4:30 p.m., 

Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A235.

 

Wednesday, March 12: Public lecture by Dr. Jody Emel, Clark

University, "Our Progress in Moving toward Sustainable Development,"

4:30 p.m., Sarkeys Energy Center, Room A235.

 

Wednesday, April 29: Public lecture by Dr. Thomas Wilbanks, Oak 

Ridge National Laboratory, "Scale and Sustainability," 4:30 p.m., 

A235 Sarkeys Energy Center.

 

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