Lecture Series
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CLASP - Consortium of Liberal Arts and Science Promotion

The CLASP Lecture Series is intended to promote interdisciplinary discussion and exchange of ideas at WSU.  CLASP presentations are aimed at a general audience of students, faculty, staff, and the community. Sessions will be 60 minutes long.

Sept. 10, 7PM

Water ... the Cradle of Life, Indeed! Bruno Bosari
Department of Biology, WSU
Stark Auditorium, 103

Sept. 17, 7PM

Putting the Lid on Bottled Water: Rethinking Water as a Community Resource Joan Francioni
Department of Computer Science, WSU
Stark, 103

Liquid Dreams: Water as Metaphor in Literature Jim Armstrong
Department of English, WSU
 

Sept. 24, 7PM

Atrazine, Nitrates and Corn-based Ethanol-Implications for Water Resources in SE MN Paul Wotzka
Hydrologist and Consultant, Weaver, MN
Stark, 103

Oct. 1, 7PM

Reflections on THE Flood:  Lessons Learned in August 2007

Toby Dogwiler
Department of Geoscience, WSU
Stark, 103

Two Places, Two Floods, One FEMA: What Too Much Water Tells Us about Ourselves

Todd Paddock
Department of Sociology, WSU
 

Oct. 8, 7PM

Preserving Minnesota’s Heritage:  The Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment Steve Morse, Executive Director
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
Stark, 103

Oct. 22, 7PM

The Blue Death: The Intriguing Past and Present Danger of the Water You Drink

Robert D. Morris
Common Book Author
PAC Main Auditorium

Oct. 29, 7PM

The Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone -- A Natural Event Compounded by Mississippi River Pollution Maureen Reap
College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
Stark, 103

Monitoring Coastal Waters from Surface to Bottom with Satellite Images

Mingrui Zhang
Department of Computer Science, WSU
 

Nov. 5, 7:30PM

The Changing Mississippi: 19th-Century Photographs by Henry P. Bosse Jon Swanson, Curator
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Minnesota Marine Art Museum

The Black Hawk War:  Blood in the Water

Gregory Schmidt
Department of History, WSU
Auditorium

Nov. 12, 7PM

Is Water a Human Right?

Joe Tadie
Department of Philosophy, Saint Mary's University
Stark, 103

A Brief History of Winona’s Water Treatment and Distribution System

Robert Keiper
Winona Water Department, City of Winona
 

Nov. 19, 7PM

A Collaborative Approach to Water Education: WSU’s Project WET

Ann Rethlefsen
Department of Education, WSU

Jeanne Franz
Department of Chemistry, WSU

Stark, 103
 
     
     
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