February 2008  
 

February 5, 2008 - Jim Rogers, President and CEO of Duke Energy, 7:00 p.m. at Frist 302

A New Way: Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Energy Efficiency
 
February 8, 2008 - Environmental Justice Film Series, 7:00 p.m. at McCormick 101
In The Light Of Reverence
 
February 12, 2008 - Oil, Energy and the Middle East: George Perkovich, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 4:30 p.m. at Guyot 10
Iran's Nuclear Program and Arab Responses
 
February 12, 2008 - David Suzuki Lecture, 8 p.m. at McCosh 50
Sustainability: The Real Challenge
David T. Suzuki PhD, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things. click here to read his bio
 
February 18, 2008 - Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences to Fight Infectious Disease, 4:30 p.m. at 300 Wallace Hall
"Drugs vs. Bugs: Leveraging Chemistry in the Assault on Tuberculosis" Joel Freundlich, Department of Chemistry
"The Future of Global AIDS Treatment: A View from Brazil" Joao Biehl, Department of Anthropology
 
February 19, 2008 - Oil, Energy and the Middle East: Ali Allawi, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, 4:30 p.m. at Aaron Burr 219
Iraq: Economic Development and the Oil Curse
 
February 21, 2008 - Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate, 4:30 p.m. at McCormick 101
Poetry Reading and Reception
 
February 22, 2008 - Environmental Justice Film Series, 7:00 p.m. at McCormick 101
Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted by Red Dirt and Clay
 
February 26, 2008 - Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 12:30 p.m. at Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School (directions and parking)
Isaac Held, "The scientific basis for projections of climate change (in a nutshell): History, status, unsolved problems"