PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The 2009-2010 Lecture Series will again span the breadth of geography, with regional, physical, and cultural topics presented by prestigious and popular faculty from local colleges and universities. The entire Lecture Series is summarized on page 6 in this Newsletter.
On September 11, the Lecture Series will begin with Dr. Helen Cox speaking about Global Warming and Meeting Our Energy Demands. The lecture will broaden and replace our traditional “Weather Month” and local members of the American Meteorological Society are anticipated to join us that night. Dr. Cox is an Associate Professor of Geography at California State University, Northridge. She is an expert about the earth’s changing climate and has had research projects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Huntsville Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Cox earned BA and MA degrees in Physics at Oxford University, plus MA and PhD degrees in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. On October 2, Dr. Bipasha Baruah will present Slumdogs and Millionaires: Making Sense of Contemporary India. Dr. Baruah is an Assistant Professor of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, and is also the Associate Director of the Yadunandan Center for India Studies. She is from India and her research specialties include gender and development, women and housing, and globalization and labor. Dr. Baruah earned a BS degree at Delhi University, India, plus Master of Environmental Science at the University of Northern British Columbia and PhD in Environmental Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada).
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