Wednesday, 11 Apr 2012
CANCELED: Ramsey lecture series: "The Art of Soluble Cyclodextrin and Niemann-Pick Type C Disease"
Steven Walkley, DVM, Ph.D., Einstein College of Medicine, New York, will present "The Art of Soluble Cyclodextrin and Niemann-Pick Type C Disease." He will discuss Niemann-Pick type C, a fatal cholesterol-glycosphingolipid lysosomal storage disorder of children.
Re-booting America: News for a New Generation
Ken Paulson, former editor and senior vice president of USA Today, is the president and CEO of the First Amendment Center. He will discuss how a generational shift in news and information consumption - along with a digitally driven society - will reshape journalism, free expression and democracy. Part of the 10th-Anniversary First Amendment Day Celebration.
Egypt: One Year after the Revolution
Maged Refaat is the Consul General of Egypt, Chicago. He has been a diplomat with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry since 1988 and held positions in Belgium, Bahrain, Russia, and Nigeria as well as with the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations. World Affairs Series