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Fighting the Insect Menace: A Historian and the Great American Mosquito Crusade
Thu Sep 17, 2009
Humanities Lecture Series 7 p.m. Hartley Rm.
Florida Tech professor Dr. Gordon Patterson is the past chair of the social science section of the Florida Academy of Science, a former director of the Florida Historical Society, former director of the Florida Humanities Council, and past Board of Advisers to Florida Defenders of the Environment. Dr. Patterson has completed an environmental history of mosquito control in 20th century Florida.
Tick or Treat: Class Conflict and Cattle Tick Eradication
Thu Oct 22, 2009
Humanities Lecture Series 7 p.m. Hartley Rm.
Claire Strom, Ph.D.
Rapetti-Trunzo Chair of History, Rollins College
Claire Strom, Ph.D., is the editor of Agricultural History (University of California Press). She is the author of several books addressing various aspects of America's rural past. Dr. Strom's most recent book, Making Catfish Bait of Government Boys: Cattle Tick Eradication and the Transformation of the Yeoman South, was released in August by the University of Georgia Press.
Why Go to the Moon: The Many Faces of Lunar Policy
Thu Nov 5, 2009
Humanities Lecture Series 7 p.m. Hartley Rm.
Roger D. Launius, Ph.D.
Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum
Dr. Launius, chief historian for NASA from 1990-2002, discusses the illustrious history of the Moon as a target for Human exploration and eventual settlement.