Amphitheater Lecture Speakers - Post-Journal

Chautauqua 2012Amphitheater Lecture SpeakersFROM PAGE 24UMBC, including the TIAA-CREF Theodore M. HesburghAward for Leadership Excellence and the Carnegie Corporationof New York’s Academic Leadership Award.Hrabowski’s research and publications focus on science andmath education, with emphasis on minority participation and performance.He co-founded, with philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff,UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program, now a national modelfor advancing minority students in pursuit of advanced degreesand research careers in science and engineering. He has also coauthoredthe books Beating the Odds and Overcoming the Odds.At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hereceived his master’s degree in mathematics and his doctorate inhigher education administration and statistics at age 24.WEEK FOURMonday, July 16Sandra PostelDennis DimickSandra Postel is director of the independent Global WaterPolicy Project and the Freshwater Fellowof the National Geographic Society,where she serves as lead water expertfor the Society’s Freshwater Initiative.Previously, she taught environmentalstudies and was directorof the Center for the Environmentat Mount Holyoke College.A leading authority and prolificauthor on international waterissues, Postel is author of Pillar ofSand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity,the basis for a 1997 PBS documentary, andco-author of Rivers for Life.Postel is Water Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and hasserved as an adviser to American Rivers and the U.S. NationalResearch Council’s Division on Earth and Life Studies. Shereceived her bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg Universityand an M.E.M. with emphasis on resource economics and policyat Duke University, where the School of Environment hashonored her with the Distinguished Alumni Award.Dennis Dimick is National Geographic magazine’s executiveeditor for the environment and hasbeen key to shaping the magazine’saward-winning reporting, particularlyon climate change, since 2003.Under his guidance, National Geographichas published stories onsoil degradation, world oil supplies,biofuels, global ice melt,coal, Earth’s carbon cycle, alternativeenergy and sustainable agriculture.Dimick orchestrates the annualAspen Environment Forum co-sponsoredwith the Aspen Institute and regularlypresents slide show lectures on energy, climate, and theenvironment. He earned his bachelor’s degree from OregonState University and graduated with a master’s degree inagricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dimick was one of eight honored with a DistinguishedAlumni Award by the Wisconsin Alumni Associationin 2011.Tuesday, July 17Enric SalaEnric Sala is a marine ecologist who fell in love with thesea growing up on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. He is ascientific researcher on marine conservation ecology forSpain’s National Council for Scientific Research and aNational Geographic explorer-in-residence. Combining workat both institutions, Sala is actively engaged in research,SEE PAGE 28641 Foote Ave. JamestownPh. 484-7777PETER LUMIABC-HISCALL US for a FREE CHECK-UPAre Your Hearing AidsDoing All That They Can?Digital & Clarity Adjustments• Infra-Red System• Reduce mumbling• Stop straining to hearPAGE 25