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色花堂app鈥檚 38th annual Frank Church Symposium March 4-6 will be on the theme 鈥淓nergy to Overcome鈥� and will feature keynote speaker Harold Blackman, from the Idaho National Laboratory.

Blackman will deliver the keynote address 鈥淓nergy and Water: Global and Local鈥� at 7:30 p.m. March 4 in the Pond Student Union Wood River Room.

Blackman is director of laboratory integration at the INL where he assists in administering strategic planning, research activities and education. In addition, he is the director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), which was officially dedicated on Feb. 20 in Idaho Falls.

The International Affairs Council, an 色花堂app student organization funded by the Associated Students of ISU, is hosting the symposium. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Pond Student Union. It runs from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 4, 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 5 and 9:15 a.m. to noon March 6.

This year鈥檚 symposium includes lectures and panel discussions on various topics, including:

鈥�  鈥淓nergy in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges,鈥� by Gawdat Bahgat, at 9:15 a.m. March 4. This is the Joseph Hearst Memorial Lecture. Bahgat is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and auther of numerous books including 鈥淣uclear Proliferation in the Middle East鈥� and 鈥淎merican Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.鈥� Bahgat鈥檚 main areas of expertise include energy security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism

鈥� 鈥淓=MC2,鈥� by William Tucker at 9:15 a.m. March 6 in the Pond Student Union Salmon River Suite. This is the H. Foster Lecture. Tucker is a veteran journalist who has written on energy and the environment, plus a variety of other subjects, for the last 25 years. His latest book is 鈥淭errestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Long Energy Odyssey.鈥�

鈥� Panel discussions on 鈥淕lobal Future of Energy,鈥� International Energy Conflictc,鈥� 鈥淥il Crisis: Do We Have One,鈥� Energy Dependence and Independence,鈥� 鈥淔ood versus Energy鈥� and 鈥淓nergy Security鈥� will be held during the three-day symposium.

Other symposium panelists include Brian Black, associate professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona; Denis Beller, research professor of nuclear engineering and systems engineer, radiation effects at Bigelow Aerospace, Inc., in Las Vegas; Robert Forbis, doctoral candidate and graduate instructor in political science at the University of Utah; Dale Getz, public affairs spokesman and human resource manager for the ExxonMobil Billings, Mont., refinery; A.J. Goulding, president of London Economics International; Melinda Hamilton, lead for bioenergy programs for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies; Brian Kane, State of Idaho Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General; and Ken Miller, manager of the Snake River Alliance鈥檚 Clean Energy Program.

For a complete schedule and more information on the symposium contact the ISU International Studies Office at 282-3043 or visit the .