Barbara Gray Spoerl Lectures in Science and Society
“The Greening of Higher Education”
“Sustainability and the Liberal Arts”
Nan Jenks-Jay
Dean of Environmental Affairs, Middlebury College
Wednesday May 12 7 pm
102 Thomas Steitz Science Hall
“The Role of the Arts in Sustainable Community Development”
Amara Geffen
Professor of Art and Director of the Center for Economic and Environmental Development, Allegheny College
Tuesday, May 18, 7 pm
102 Thomas Steitz Science Hall
“Education in Action for a Sustainable Future”
Debra Rowe
President, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development and Professor, Sustainable Energies and Behavioral Sciences, Oakland Community College
Wednesday May 19, 7 pm
202 Thomas Steitz Science Hall
The Spoerl Lectures are made possible by a fund established in 1999 by Barbara Gray Spoerl, Milwaukee-Downer College Class of 1944, and her husband, Edward Spoerl. Mrs. Spoerl was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Milwaukee-Downer and a Lawrence University alumna trustee from 1975 to 1977. She also served as the president of the Milwaukee-Downer Alumnae Association and of the Lawrence University Alumni Association. The Spoerls’ daughter, Dr. Patricia Spoerl, is a 1971 Lawrence graduate. This fund brings to campus visiting scholars knowledgeable in the historical and cultural meanings of science and technology – e.g., scientists, philosophers, sociologists – to speak on topics that broaden the community’s understanding of the role of science and technology in societies worldwide.