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Kennel

UTEP's Millennium Lecture Series welcomed speaker Charles Kennel, director of the Environment and Sustainability Initiative at the University of California San Diego, Monday afternoon at the Undergraduate Learning Center.

Kennel  presented the lecture "Had We World Enough and Time: Global Earth Science and Sustainability."  His talk focused on the daily occurrences in nature, caused by man, that will affect the world in the next 50 years.

Kennel holds degrees in astronomy and astrophysics from Harvard and Princeton. He is a former associate administrator at NASA and director of Mission to Planet Earth, the world’s largest Earth-science program. He is a professor of atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

This year's UTEP Millennium Lecture Series is sponsored by the President’s Office and the university’s Center for Environmental Resource Management. Kennel’s lecture was the last in the 2006-2007 series, which explored the changing environment, including climate change, resource depletion, energy use and production, and environmental impacts on human health.

-Laura S. Ruelas
Source: ¿Que Pasa? April 2007