Explore Steps Toward a Healthy Planet at Annual Integrity of Creation Conference

Faculty and staff can still register for the fifth annual Presidential Conference on the Integrity of Creation, which will explore the steps being made to protect the environment.

The conference will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24-25, in the Charles J. Dougherty Ballroom. Speakers will discuss research about environmental issues from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Speakers and their topics include:

• Sylvester (Jim) Gates, Ford Foundation Professor of Physics at Brown University, will present Challenges of ‘Anthropocenic’ Policy-Making: A View From Inside A Policy-Formation Organization.
• Mary Jane Angelo, professor of law and director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Florida, will present Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture and a Changing Global Climate.
• Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, professor of theological and social ethics at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California, will present Hope, Radical Love and Moral-Spiritual Power in an Age of Climate Colonialism.
• Ronan Barry, Spiritan education trust officer, Dublin, Ireland, will present Spiritan Global Citizenship Education Program: Preparing for the New Challenges in Our Interconnected World.
• Aurora Sharrard, director of sustainability at the University of Pittsburgh, will present Sustainability Via Patience, Persistence and Hope.
• Patricia M. DeMarco, visiting researcher and writer at Carnegie Mellon University, will present Protecting the Rights of the Living Earth.
• Thomas McQuillan, vice president of corporate strategy, culture and sustainability at Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc., will present The Food Asset Potential, Changing Cultural Norms to Reduce the Amount of Food We Waste.

For more information, including the full conference schedule and to register, visit www.duq.edu/ioc or contact Glory Smith at 412.396.4504.