Dillard University News August 2016 BRAIN FOOD: DILLARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT’S LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCES FALL SPEAKER LINEUP Brain Food: Dillard University President’s Lecture Series Fall 2016 lineup features renowned political commentators and an expert in the field of urban education. Speakers are Rich Lowry, Dr. Christopher Emdin and Van Jones. All lectures are free and open to the public and held in Georges Auditorium in the Dillard University Professional Schools and Sciences Building (PSB) unless otherwise noted. 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You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The schedule and speaker bios follow. Sep. 20 Editor of National Review, Rich Lowry is a syndicated columnist and commentator for the Fox News Channel. He writes for Politico, Time, and often appears on such public affairs programs as Meet the Press and The McLaughlin Group. He is the author of Lincoln Unbound and Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years – a New York Times bestseller. Oct. 25 Dr. Christopher Emdin is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University; he also serves as Director of Science Education at the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education. He is a public speaker on the issues of hip-hop education, STEM education, politics, race, class, diversity, and youth empowerment. Dr. Emdin is also the author of For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Ya’ll Too, also a New York Times bestseller. Nov. 16 CNN contributor Van Jones visits the Dillard campus as part of the Justice Revious O. Ortique Jr. Lecture Series. Jones has founded and led numerous social enterprises engaged in social and environmental justice. He has authored two New York Times bestsellers, The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream. Among his many awards and honors, Van Jones has been selected to Ebony Magazine’s 2013 Power 100 and is a winner of an NAACP Image Award. The Spring 2017 schedule is still in progress. A Brief History of the Dillard Presidential Lecture Series Beginning with the University’s first official president, William Stuart Nelson in the 1930s, public intellectual discourse has been a part of Dillard’s heritage. In the 1950s, Albert Dent organized the Edwin R. Embree Memorial Lecture Series whose guests included Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jackie Robinson. Subsequently, Dillard presidents have assembled lectures that reflected their sensibilities. During Samuel DuBois Cook’s tenure, he established a lyceum series and built a fine arts center to provide a new venue for lectures, theater and music. Walter M. Kimbrough launched Brain Food in 2013, and has continued the tradition with speakers such as Michael Eric Dyson, Misty Copeland, Benjamin Crump and Michael Steele. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) 404-577-5158 (fax) Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ Check out "PULSE!" 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