Admission is free and parking is available at no charge in Section M of Lots 14 and 15.
Suzuki will talk about how population numbers, science, technology, consumption, and economics have endowed humanity with the power to alter the biological, physical and chemical properties of the planet. He will define a new set of priorities, based on ancient wisdom, which should become the bottom line for the 21st century so that all life can continue to flourish.
Suzuki has had a distinguished academic and scientific career. He completed a PhD in genetics at the University of Chicago in 1961, followed by a year of post-doctoral research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He has taught at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia, where he became Professor Emeritus in 2001. As a scientist, he has made significant contributions in genetics and was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the Outstanding Research Scientist in Canada under the age of 35 from 1969-72. He uses his expertise as a scientist to raise scientific and social issues about genetics, and more recently, the environment.
Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He has received UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Program Medal and the Global 500. He is a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. In 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation was established to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world. The Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that help conserve nature in four areas: oceans and sustainable fishing, forests and wild lands, climate change and clean energy, and the web of life.
Suzuki holds 16 honorary degrees in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, as well as other academic awards. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Order of Canada. He has written 40 books, including 17 for children. Almost every major book he has published has been a bestseller in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
As a broadcaster, Suzuki is well known for his radio and television programs that explain the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling, easily understood way. He is host of the popular national CBC television series The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. He has been with the show for 20 of its 40 seasons on air, and has won four Gemini Awards as best host of a Canadian television series for his work on the show.
For more background information on David Suzuki visit the Web site at http://www.davidsuzuki.org/
Organized by Dr. Darlene Juschka and Dr. Joyce Green of the U of R, the Woodrow Lloyd Lecture is sponsored by the U of R’s Canadian Plains Research Center and the Faculty of Arts. The Woodrow Lloyd Lecture series is named in honour of the first Saskatchewan-born premier. Woodrow Lloyd followed Tommy Douglas, and it was Lloyd’s government that established medicare. Lloyd laid the cornerstone in 1963 for what was to become the new campus of the University of Regina.
Editors: David Suzuki will be available for media interviews from 4 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on March 18 in the Business Room on the second floor of the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza