Des Moines Register
04-02-06
Tech expert to speak at ISU, Grinnell
ANNE FITZGERALD
REGISTER AGRIBUSINESS WRITER
Calestous Juma, an expert on technology's role in sustainable development and a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, will speak in central Iowa this week as part of the sixth John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable
Agriculture.
The annual event honors Curtiss Distinguished Professor John Pesek for his contributions to Iowa State University in Ames and to sustainable agriculture.
Juma is director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at
Harvard's Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass. He chaired a U.N. millennium project on science, technology and innovation, and he is chairman of the
Committee on Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology of the U.S. National Academies.
On Thursday at Iowa State, Juma will speak about "Reinventing African
Economies." On Friday at Grinnell College, he will speak on "Shaping the New
Biosociety."
Each event will be followed by comments from panelists and from the audience.
Both are free and open to the public.
If you go
The sixth John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture will begin with a 6 p.m. reception Thursday in Iowa State's Scheman Building, followed by a talk by featured speaker Calestous Juma at 7 p.m.
On Friday, Juma will speak at noon in room 116 of the Steiner Building at
Grinnell College.
More information is available by calling (515) 294-6061.