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News Release
EVENT NEWS RELEASE/November 20, 2007
Boise State's Distinguished Lecture Series Features
Environmental Architect William McDonough April 17
William McDonough, internationally renowned “green” designer and winner of
the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, will speak as part of
the Boise State University Distinguished Lecture Series at 7 p.m. April 17
in the Morrison Center. McDonough’s lecture, “The Next Industrial
Revolution,” is free and no tickets are required. Limited seating is
available on a first-come basis. Doors open at 6 p.m. and parking is free.
In 1999, Time magazine recognized McDonough as a “Hero for the Planet,”
stating “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that in
demonstrable and practical ways is changing the design of the world.”
In addition to receiving the Presidential Award in 1996, the nation’s
highest environmental honor, McDonough has earned the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award as a member
of the EcoWorx™ development team for Shaw Industries. Most recently, he
received the National Design Award for exemplary achievement in the field of
environmental design. Presented annually by the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt
National Design Museum, it is an award recognizing “excellence, innovation
and lasting achievement.”
McDonough is principal of MBDC, a product and system development firm
involved in designing profitable and environmentally intelligent solutions.
He is also the founding principal of William McDonough+Partners, alumni
research professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of
Business Administration, and consulting professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Stanford University.
Since 2001, the student-funded Distinguished Lecture Series has brought to
Boise State speakers who have had a major impact in politics, the arts,
science, business or in another realm of contemporary significance.
Former speakers in the series include National Book Award winner Jonathan
Kozol, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Nobel laureate in Economics
Joseph Stiglitz, biologist E.O. Wilson, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and
former president of Poland Lech Walesa, among others. More information on
the series is at
http://www.boisestate.edu/distinguishedlectures/.
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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
Boise State University professor Heidi Reeder has been named the 2007
Idaho Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. She is an associate professor in the Department of
Communications. Reeder’s honor marks the 11th time that a Boise State
professor has earned this award, and the seventh time in the last decade.
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