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More than 90 OWU students had the opportunity to meet
Ohio Wesleyan alumni at the annual "Munch and Mingle"
event on campus.
F a l l S p e a k e r S
The following is a sampling
of fall guest speakers at OWU
including Sagan National
Colloquium (SNC), The Eddy
Memorial Lecture on World
Politics, and the inaugural
Barger Family Lecture Series,
named for former OWU Trustee
Richards Barger and his children,
James `78, John `79, and
Catherine Barger Leibrich `83.
For a more comprehensive listing,
please visit OWU’s Web
site at http://news.owu.edu
Toshi Amino, retired executive
vice president for Honda
of America and executive-inresidence
for the Woltemade
Center for Economics, Business,
and Entrepreneurship, “China’s
Automobile Industry,” Robert L.
Milligan Leaders in Business
Lecture Series.
Steve Ansolabehere, the Elting
R. Morison Professor of Political
Science at MIT; David Brady,
senior fellow and deputy director
of the Hoover Foundation
and political science and ethics
professor at The Stanford
Graduate School of Business;
Tom Edsall, professor at the
Columbia Graduate School of
Journalism and columnist for
6 Ohio Wesleyan Magazine
Munch & Mingle
Alumni CAreer Center
networking event
“The New Republic;” and Carl
Pinkele, the Honorable Charles
W. Fairbanks Professor of Politics
and Government and director of
The Arneson Institute for Practical
Politics at OWU, the inaugural
Barger Family Lecture Series,
“The 2006 U.S. Elections: What
Happened? Why? What’s Next?”
Andrew Cottey, senior lecturer
and Jean Monnet Chair in
European Political Integration in
the Department of Government,
University College Cork, “The
End of Humanitarian Intervention:
Norms and International Politics
After 9/11,” sponsored by OWU’s
International Studies Program.
Chris Impey, University of
Arizona Distinguished Professor
and Phi Beta Kappa Visiting
Scholar, “The Art of Science,”
SNC.
Sarah Kennedy, outreach
director of Sustainable Harvest
International (SHI) and coordinator
of its Smaller World Program,
“Sustainable Solutions to Poverty
and Deforestation in Central
America,” SNC.
Robert Pennock, author of The
Tower of Babel: the Evidence
against the New Creationism,
“The Ground Rules of Science:
Why the Judge Ruled Intelligent
Design Creationism out of Court,”
SNC.
Richard Preston, best-selling
author of The Hot Zone, “The
Demon in the Freezer: the
True Story of the War against
Bioterrorism,” SNC.
Nita Rollins `81, director of
Thought Leadership for Resource
Interactive, “Trend in Interactive
Marketing,” Woltemade Center
Lecture Series.
F. Sherwood Rowland `48,
Donald Bren Research Professor
of Chemistry and Earth System
Science at The University of
California at Irvine and recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1995, “Global Warming and
Abrupt Climate Change,” SNC.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of
the UN Millennium Project and
special advisor to United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
on the Millennium Development
Goals, “The End of Poverty,”
the 18 th John Kennard Eddy
Memorial Lecture on World
Politics, co-sponsored by the
Department of Politics and
Government, the International
Studies Program, and SNC.
Picking up helpful tips about the job market
and how to find that first job after college
were highlights of the noon gathering
in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center.
Richard Sayre, director of
the BioCassava Plus Program
funded by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, “Meeting the
Challenge of Malnutrition in Sub-
Saharan Africa, the BioCassava
Plus Program,” SNC.
Peter Singer, senior fellow and
director of the Brookings Project
on U.S. Relations with the Islamic
World at the Brookings Institution,
“Robotics and Warfare,” co-sponsored
by SNC and the International
Studies Program.
Mary Brett Whitfield, director
of the Retail Forward Intelligence
System and manager of the
Softgoods Program, “Why Retail
Differentiation is Important Now,”
Woltemade Center Lecture Series.
Woodrow Whitlow, director
of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) John
H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis
Field, “The Value Proposition for
the Human Exploration of Space,”
sponsored by the Black World
Studies Program.
Carrie Wolinetz, director for communications
for the Office of Public
Affairs, Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology
(FASEB), “Stem Cells and Public
Policy,” SNC.