2010 涩里番 School of Environment's Environment Public Lecture
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The 涩里番 School of Environment is pleased to present
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Dr. Wes Jackson
Founder and President
Land Institute
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:00 pm
New Residence Ballroom
3625 ave du Parc
Montreal, Quebec
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Admission is free
No registration required.
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Dr. Jackson earned a B.A. in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, an M.A. in botany from University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University.
He established and served as chair of one of the country's first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found in 1976.
He is the author of several books including New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place and is widely recognized as a leader in the international movement for a more sustainable agriculture.
He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar, in 1992 became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award (called the "alternative Nobel prize"). Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 individuals it predicts will be among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th century." In November 2005, Smithsonian called him one of "35 Who Made a Difference."