Lecture Series
Lecture Series
The Faculty Emeriti Association is sponsoring a series of lectures that are open to the MSU community. The series offers Faculty Emeriti opportunities to hear about interesting topics and to become reconnected with the campus.
Parking: Parking is available in front of the Radiology Building. Additional parking is also available in the lot adjacent to the Radiology Building. Take the ticket to the lecture to have it validated.
We are announcing the next Faculty Emeriti Lectureship. Mark your calendar.
Fracking: An Energy Boom or Environmental Bust?
Monday, April 1, 2013 2:00 pm refreshments, 2:30 pm lecture
Radiology Auditorium
Warren Wood
Warren Wood
Fracking apparently offers an inexpensive domestically produced source of natural gas. “Fracking”, “hydraulic fracturing” or “hydrofracking” is a process of increasing fluid pressure at a point to fracture rocks. This fracturing allows fluids (gas, water, and oil) trapped in the rock to flow more easily to the well. Most of the 60 years of historical experience with fracking has been with deep vertical wells and there has been little environmental consequence to the groundwater, exposure to increased radiation, or seismic hazards. Within the last 15 years, however, it has become possible to drill horizontally at shallower depths (typically about a mile deep). Thus, we have horizontal wells that have a significantly larger fracked area and that is perceived to endanger overlying fresh water aquifers, human health, buildings, and infrastructure. The question proffered, “is it desirable to recover this energy or is the environmental risk greater than rewards?” Note that any resource development, or non-development, is about alternative choices (economic, cultural, environmental, etc).
Warren Wood (BS, MS, and PhD, MSU) is Visiting Professor of Geosciences at Michigan State University; Adjunct Professor, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia; Visiting Research Associate, School of Geography, University of Oxford, UK; Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska; and Scientist Emeritus with the U. S. Geological Survey. During 40 years with the USGS, he served as: Project Chief hydrodynamic dispersion, Assistant Chief radioactive waste, Geochemist for the High Plains artificial recharge project, and a hydrogeologist for the Michigan District. From 1978 -1981 he was Associate Professor at Texas Tech University. For the last 30 years his research interests have been largely in the hydrogeology of arid areas.
The Euro
Monday, March 18, 2013 2:00 pm refreshments, 2:30 pm talk
Radiology Auditorium
Mordechai Kreinin
Mordechai Kreinin
Professor Kreinin is a University Distinguished Professor of Economics at MSU. He is a past president of the International Trade and Finance Association. He has written some 200 articles and books in economics, including the widely used text,International Economics. Professor Kreinin has been a consultant to numerous national and international organizations in the public and private sector. He is listed in Who is Who in the World, Who is Who in America and Distinguished Educators of America.
Toward a New Normal?: Nine Tectonic Shifts in U.S. - China Relations.
Monday, February 25, 2013 2:00 pm refreshments, 2:30 pm talk
Radiology Auditorium
David Firestein, Vice President for the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative and Track 2 Diplomacy at the EastWest Institute addresses "Toward a New Normal?: Nine Tectonic Shifts in U.S. - China Relations." Mr. Firestein served in the U.S. Department of State from 1992-2010 with posts in China and Moscow. He was also Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Refreshments will be available at 2:00, the talk at 2:30 pm in the Radiology Auditorium.
The China – Taiwan Relationship: A Conundrum
Monday, January 14, 2013 2:30 pm
Radiology Auditorium
Radiology Auditorium
Bernard Gallin, MSU Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, specializes in China and Taiwan studies. He has carried out field work over the last 50 years in Taiwan as well as comparative research in the PRC, the China Mainland. He and his wife, Professor Rita S. Gallin, first lived in Taipei and then in a rural Taiwanese agricultural village for two years in the mid-to-late 1950s. He carried out the first long-term study of Taiwanese rural life: its socioeconomic, political and cultural life, examining its interrelationship with the larger area and society. On numerous field trips during the last five decades, he has followed the village and area people’s rural-to-urban migration to Taipei and other Taiwan cities. During more recent years, he has also observed Taiwan's growing economic and religious relationships with the People’s Republic of China, on the Chinese mainland. Gallin has published and lectured on his research findings at universities in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia as well as in the U.S. His talk will focus on the relationship between China and Taiwan.
Why Do Archaeology on a College Campus? The Idea Behind the MSU Campus Archaeology Program & What We Have Found Recently
10 October 2012; Cookies and coffee 2:00PM, lecture 2:30PM
Radiology auditorium
Lynne Goldstein PhD
Bio: Archaeologist and Professor (and former Chair) of Anthropology at Michigan State University, Goldstein has published articles on the pre-contact Mississippian period in the U.S. Eastern Woodlands (ca. AD 1000), the analysis and meaning of mortuary practices, quantitative research methods, computer databases and social networking, and ethics and public policy in anthropology. Before coming to MSU in 1996, she was a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Most recently, some of her research has included the archaeology of university campuses; she created and directs Michigan State University’s Campus Archaeology Program. Goldstein has served as Editor of the journal.
MSU is home to one of the few campus archaeology programs in the United States. Why is such a program a good idea, what does it accomplish, and what can we learn? Why did MSU think it was a good idea? This talk will outline how and why the MSU Campus Archaeology Program came to be, and will also review some of the program's recent accomplishments. MSU has terrific written archives - why do we need archaeology? It is sometimes hard to believe that there are things that we don't know about MSU's history, but archaeology often discovers evidence that does not exist within archives. The program is also a wonderful teaching tool for many different audiences.
Meeting Students in Their Own Spaces and Guiding Them to Ours: The Changing Landscape of Undergraduate Library Services
Friday, October 19 – 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Main Library, North Conference Room (4th Floor, West)
Rachel Minkin, Information Literacy Librarian & Julia Frankosky, Assistant Copyright Librarian
According the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR), technology and students are linked in ways never before seen in academia. Students’ involvement with social media networks is hardly news; but are these students talking to faculty, staff, classmates? How do students prefer to speak with us? How has the influx of technology (including social media) changed the way librarians provide service to undergraduates? Join two MSU librarians in conversation and demonstration as we explore this changing landscape of undergraduate library services.
Seating is limited, so for us to reserve your place, you must register by calling Stephanie Perentesis at 517/884-0836 or emailing me at perente1@mail.lib.msu.edu
Craft Your Own Book with the Espresso Book Machine
Friday, November 2 – 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Main Library, Reference Instruction Room (1st Floor, Center)
Holly Flynn, Outreach Librarian & Kyle Pressley, Espresso Book Machine Coordinator
Step into the world of self-publishing with the MSU Libraries’ Espresso Book Machine (EBM), a print-on-demand book-making machine. Now you can easily turn your family history, novel, poetry and more into a high-quality paperback book. The Espresso Book Machine prints your black and white or color pages and a full-color cover, binds them together and trims them all to size within a matter of minutes. The EBM at MSU features affordable pricing and no minimum print runs. Bring your own project to this workshop and explore how the EBM can work for you. Learn how to format your files for use with the EBM and get information on working with freelance editors and indexers, book cover design, and copyright considerations.
Seating is limited, so for us to reserve your place, you must register by calling Stephanie Perentesis at 517/884-0836 or emailing me at perente1@mail.lib.msu.edu
Better Said Than Done: How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Changes Everything
Tuesday November 20, 2012
2:00PM refreshments
2:30PM lecture
Radiology Lecture Hall
Chip Brock, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Professor Brock is a University Distinguished Professor. He and a colleague from UofM direct a data center for the ATLAS experiment at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) using the Large Hadron Collider to find the Higgs Boson.
