Jan. 10, 2006

Events at NC State University
For use by the media as calendar-of-events items or for information.

NC State Hosts Great Decisions Discussion Program

What: North Carolina State University will again participate in the Great Decisions Program, the longest-standing and largest grassroots world affairs educational program of its kind. Developed by the Foreign Policy Association in 1954, Great Decisions brings millions of Americans together in communities across the country to consider and discuss their opinions on important contemporary foreign policy issues. The NC State program will focus on eight different U.S.
foreign policy concerns.

Who: Presented by the masters of international studies program and the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS).

When: All public lectures start at 7 p.m.

• Tuesday, Jan. 17 – United Nations Reform
  Dr. Jerry Pubantz, professor of political science, University of North Carolina- Greensboro
• Tuesday, Jan. 24 – The United States and Iran
  Clark Plexico, president of Clark Plexico Consulting, Inc. and former N.C. state senator
• Tuesday, Jan. 31 – Energy Resources
  Henry Clark, lead strategic planning specialist for Progress Energy Strategic Planning Department, Raleigh
• Tuesday, Feb. 7 – Brazil: Invented Pasts and Hoped-For Futures
  Ines Valdez, doctoral candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Tuesday, Feb. 14 – China and India: Partners or Competitors?
  Richard Kahler, former president of Caterpillar China
• Tuesday, Feb. 21 – Human Rights in the Age of Terrorism
  Jennifer Rudinger, executive director, ACLU of N.C.
• Tuesday, Feb. 28 – Turkey and the European Union
  Dr. Roland Stephen, assistant director at NC State’s Institute for Emerging
  Issues
• Tuesday, March 14 – Pandemics and Security
  Dr. Jeffrey Engel, state epidemiologist, N.C. Department of Health & Human
  Services

Where: All public lectures take place in 216 Poe Hall on the NC State campus.

Cost: The lecture series is free and open to the public.

Contact: For more information on Great Decisions at NC State, contact Wayne Watkins
at rwwatki2@ncsu.edu or Dr. Heidi Hobbs at 919/513-4389.

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