BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250924T034801EDT-0899hTnkku@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250924T074801Z DESCRIPTION: \nThe ɬÀï·¬ School of Environment is pleased to present\n \nD r. Wes Jackson\nFounder and President\nLand Institute\n \nWednesday\, Febr uary 10\, 2010 at 6:00 pm\n\nNew Residence Ballroom\n3625 ave du Parc\nMon treal\, Quebec\n \n \nAdmission is free\nNo registration required.\n \nDr. Jackson earned a B.A. in biology from Kansas Wesleyan\, an\nM.A. in botan y from University of Kansas\, and a Ph.D. in genetics\nfrom North Carolina State University.\nHe established and served as chair of one of the count ry's first\nenvironmental studies programs at California State\nUniversity -Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to\nfound The Land\nIns titute in 1976.\nHe is the author of several books including New Roots for \nAgriculture and Becoming Native to This Place and is\nwidely recognized as a leader in the international movement for a\nmore sustainable agricult ure.\nHe was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar\, in 1992 became a\nMacArthur Fellow\, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood\nAward (called the 'al ternative Nobel prize'). Life\nmagazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 ind ividuals it predicts\nwill be among the 100 'important Americans of the 20 th century.' In\nNovember 2005\, Smithsonian called him one of '35 Who Mad e a\nDifference.'\n DTSTART:20100210T230000Z DTEND:20100211T000000Z SUMMARY:2010 ɬÀï·¬ School of Environment's Environment Public Lecture URL:/channels/event/2010-mcgill-school-environments-en vironment-public-lecture-113260 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR