Lehigh University

Inspire, Create, Serve: 2011 Academic Symposium
March 29, 2011
Zoellner Arts Center
Lehigh University

9:00-9:15 am	Welcoming Remarks – Master of Ceremonies Alan Snyder, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies and President Alice Gast
9:15-10:30 am	Bernard Amadei professor of civil engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder Engineering for the Developing World: From Crisis to Development
10:30-11:15 am	Refreshments and An Exhibition of Student Research and Scholarship
11:15-12:30pm	Alice Rivlin visiting professor, the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and senior fellow, Brookings Institution Can We Avoid a Debt Crisis in a Partisan Political World?
12:30pm-1:45 pm	Lunch Break
1:45-3:00 pm	Camille Utterback MacArthur Fellow Stepping into the Unknown, and Other Rational Decisions
3:00pm-3:45 pm	Refreshments and An Exhibition of Student Research and Scholarship
3:45pm-5:00 pm	George Whitesides Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University Simplicity: A question of style in science,and three easy pieces
5:00 pm	Closing remarks – Provost Patrick Farrell
5:15 pm	Reception

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.