Wednesday, 19 Apr 2006
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - President Gregory Geoffroy
Gregory L. Geoffroy became president of Iowa State University in 2001, where he is also professor of chemistry. He began his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1974, and was appointed head of the Department of Chemistry in 1988 and dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in 1989. Geoffroy was appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997, where he also served as interim president for two months in 1998. Geoffroy is a nationally acclaimed researcher in organometallic chemistry, having published more than 200 research articles and has presented more than 200 invited lectures in the United States and nine other nations. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
What Will it Take to Make the Future Sustainable? - Frances Moore Lappe and Joel Kovel
Frances Moore Lappe, author of Scarcity Myths: The Power of Ideas to Shape the World We Want, is the co-founder of two national organizations focused on food and the roots of democracy. The Institute for Food and Development Policy (known as Food First), is action-based non-profit organization dealing with the causes of and solutions for world hunger. She later co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year...
Stealing Reality: The Rise of the Right, the Fracture of News and Lessons Learned from Karl Rove - Bill Israel
Bill Israel, professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, specializes in the study of media and power, reporting, and online journalism. He has taught "Politics and the Press" with aides to Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Israel worked as press secretary to an Iowa gubernatorial candidate, as assistant to the California Senate majority leader, and as press secretary and legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator in Washington. In radio, television, and print media he has worked as reporter, producer, editor, and anchor. He has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, Dallas Morning News, USA Today, CBS Radio, ABC-TV News, and other regional print and broadcast news outlets.