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August 28, 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) Former Park Service Director Opens CIRES Lecture Series at University of Colorado On September 4, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, former National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy will address the interplay of human and natural systems in his lecture "The Abrasion of Human and Natural Systems: Fire, Flood, Risk, and Responsibility." Mr. Kennedy has worked with top-level policy makers focused on America's land for three decades. "Natural disasters occur," said Kennedy, "but some may be anticipated and some alleviated once we accept responsibility theologically, historically, and politically." The lecture will take place in the CIRES Auditorium, 3rd floor CIRES Building on the CU Boulder campus. Kennedy was the Director of the U.S. National Park Service from 1993-1997. Prior that that he served for thirteen years as Director of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, and for ten years before that, he was the Vice President of the Ford Foundation. He has served six presidents on a variety of boards and commissions, and as Special Assistant successively to the Attorney General, and the Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Labor. As a television presenter and producer, he covered the White House for NBC, and appeared on his own radio program on NBC, as well as his own television series on the Discovery Channel. He was a founder (and first chairman) of the Guthrie Theater and of the Library of America. Kennedy's lecture is the first in the 2001-02 Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The lecture series seeks to bring global thinkers with perspectives that stimulate and move dialogue beyond academia. For more information, contact Kathy Zellers at 303-735-0196. |
