Spring 2009 SSF Events

February 5, 2009

Donald Boesch, Professor of Marine Science and President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and Chairman the Maryland Governor’s Climate Change Commission

Wayne Gilchrest, former Congressman representing Maryland’s 1st District and co-chair of the Climate Change Caucus

Sarah Zaleski, Coordinator, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability

Ray Hoff (Moderator), UMBC Professor of Physics and Director of the collaborative NASA-UMBC research centers Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and Goddard; Earth Sciences & Technology Center (GEST)

Planet in Peril: Policy Responses to Climate Change


February 18, 2009

Will Baker, President, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Saving Chesapeake Bay: The Greatest Fight for Clean Water this Nation Has Ever Seen


February 26, 2009

Kenneth L. Marcus, Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America

School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/The City University of New York

Civil Rights in the Obama Administration


March 11, 2009

Claudia Koonz, Professor of History, Duke University

The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom?


March 25, 2009

Carla Hayden, Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library

Gaining Information, Knowledge, and Power in the 21st Century


April 20, 2009

Thomas A. LaVeist

William C. & Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy 

Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status: Advancing Understanding of Race Disparities in Health


April 29, 2009

Paul Root Wolpe

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics and Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University

Bioethics advisor to NASA

Thorny Bioethical Issues at NASA


May 6, 2009

The Low Lecture, organized by the Department of History

G. Derek Musgrove, Professor of History, University of the District of Columbia

Discovering ‘The Harassment of Black Elected Officials’ in the Post-Watergate Period