Hazel Barton, Loper Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Cave Microbiology: It’s Wild Down There,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public. Caves, by their …
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Helena D. Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet and playwright whose one-person show, Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker, earned multiple theater accolades, including the AUDELCO Best Solo-Performance Award. A licensed social worker with a doctorate from Rutgers, she is the substance abuse treatment director for a …
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George Saunders is the author of twelve books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, and Tenth of December, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Folio and Story Prizes. A MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, he has taught in Syracuse University’s Creative Writing …
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Travelocity.com Founder Terry Jones Delivers Wilkes University’s Allan P. Kirby Lecture in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship on Oct. 21
by Web ServicesTerry Jones, founder of Travelocity.com and founding chairman of Kayak.com, will deliver the Allan P. Kirby Lecture in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Wilkes University at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21. Jones will deliver the lecture On Innovation: Powerful Ideas to Create a More Innovative Organization, at the Dorothy …
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Urban Water Infrastructure Is Topic of Kappe Lecture at Wilkes University on Oct. 30
by Web Services“Rethinking America’s Urban Water Infrastructure: Resource Efficiency, Access and Public Health,” will be the topic of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists 2019 Kappe Lecture on Oct. 30 at Wilkes University. The lecture will be delivered by Nancy G. Love, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the …
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Bestselling Author and Journalist Richard Louv Explores Nature-Deficit Disorder During the Oct. 17 Lecture at Wilkes University
by Web ServicesThe negative consequences of separating children from the natural world will be explored when bestselling author, journalist and nature advocate Richard Louv speaks at Wilkes University. Louv will deliver his lecture, “The Nature Principle: Nature-Deficit Disorder, Vitamin N, and the New Nature Movement” on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in …