Geography Department 75th Anniversary

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Presentation schedule:

• 9-9:45 a.m.: Norm Moline, professor emeritus, "The 75 Year History of the Geography Department"
• 9:50-10:15 a.m.: Paul Brinkman '91, head of the Environmental Humanities Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, "Now Is the Time to Collect: Salvage Zoology and the Colonial Geography of Extinction"
• 10:15-10:40 a.m.: Tom Klak '79, professor of environmental studies, University of New England (Biddeford, Maine), "Speed Breeding Transgenic American Chestnut: A Missing Keystone Species of the Eastern U.S."
• 10:55-11:20 a.m.: Dawn Carlson '90, traffic engineer at RK&K Civil Engineering (Atlanta, Ga.)
• 11:20-11:45 a.m.: Kirk Huiffaker '92, principal of Kirk Huffaker Preservation Strategies (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Past Forward ¨C The Power of Preservation"
• 11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.: Brad Jokisch '89, associate professor of geography, Ohio University, "International Migration: A Geographer¡¯s Perspective and Experience (Latin America focus)"