Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

Public Lecture Features Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

From May 25th - 28th, 2003, MIRARCO’s Centre for Environmental Monitoring will co-host the Sudbury 2003 – Mining and the Environment Conference. On Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m., members of the general public are invited to join conference delegates in Laurentian University’s Fraser Auditorium as Falconbridge Limited presents well-known Canadian author Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon. Dr. Homer-Dixon is Director of the Centre for the Study of Peace and Conflict, and is Associate Professor in the Department of political science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Homer-Dixon’s public lecture will discuss how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological and technological change and the implications of these changes on global security in the 21st century.

Dr. Homer-Dixon’s books include “The Ingenuity Gap", which won the 2001 Governor General’s Non-fiction Award. Dr. Homer-Dixon has been invited to speak about his research at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Cornell Universities, UC Berkeley, MIT, West Point, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dr. Homer-Dixon has also twice briefed Al Gore during his tenure as Vice President of the United States.

More information about Dr. Homer-Dixon can be found at: www.homerdixon.com. Tickets to this free lecture are on a first-come, first-served basis and will be available at local outlets throughout Sudbury. Please watch the Sudbury 2003 website at www.sudbury2003.ca for outlet locations to be announced soon!

MIRARCO’s Expertise, Technology Help Laurentian University’s School of Engineering Gain Rave Reviews

Laurentian University's School of Engineering received a positive review of its Master's of Engineering Program in Mineral Resources by the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies (OCGS). In their evaluation, the external reviewers underlined the program's clear focus on its strategic emplacement at the centre of Canadian mining activity, and the "world-class, without equal" quality of certain facilities. Dr. Dougal McCreath, graduate program coordinator at LU's School of Engineering stated, "Undoubtedly, our close links with the Laurentian's Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) and our access to their Virtual Reality Laboratory are appealing to students as this will enable us to expand and to offer our students and faculty access to cutting-edge technology."

As a result of this very favourable review, the School of Engineering intends to promote its Master's of Engineering Program in Mineral Resources on a wider scale and at the international level. It is also working on the development of a Ph.D. program, which would increase the University's profile in the mining sector, attract a greater number of students, and solidify the quality of its bachelor and master's programs.

For more information, please contact Mr. Paul Dunn, Director of MIRARCO’s Centre for Mining Technology and engineering professor at Laurentian University, at (705) 675-1151 ext.5074, or by email at pdunn@mirarco.org

MIRARCO - Mining Innovation
Laurentian University
Willet Green Miller Centre
933 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 6B5
Ph: (705) 675-1151 x 5075

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