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Jul. 08, 2023 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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International Project
Jul. 11, 2023
Rick Olson is a retired professional with a variety of educational and life experiences. He has worked as an economist, an attorney, a certified financial planner, an agricultural loan officer, an agricultural cooperative president, a State Representative in Michigan and a public-school business manager. He obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and completed the coursework in two Ph.D. programs (Agricultural Economics and Education Administration), but declined to write a thesis in either, so he is not a Ph.D. An avid traveler, he has been in 44 countries and in all 50 of the United States. He has flown to the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda three times since February 2020 to guide a non-profit organization he founded to assist the refugees at Best Future School (and now at four such learning centers). He has also led the effort on three Rotary International Global Grants for refugee settlement camps in Uganda. He is now also involved in support of the efforts of Sustainable Cambodia. He currently resides in Prior Lake, Minnesota, USA with his wife of 51 years, a retired school superintendent, and is the father of two boys, ages 45 and 43. Rick is also an adventurer, having climbed Mt. McKinley in Alaska in 1977, riding his bicycle across the USA in 2016, did a 19-day trek to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest in 2017, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in 2019. He led Rotary International tours through Eastern Europe in 2019 and again in 2022. |
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"Rotary and its Environment"
Aug. 22, 2023
Dr. Christopher (Chris) Puttock is a botanist with four decades of experience in environmental conservation and habitat restoration.
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How I Got Here
Oct. 10, 2023
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Visitors from outside our solar system
Nov. 07, 2023
Bio - Karen Meech Karen Meech is an astronomer/astrobiologist who investigates how habitable worlds form, exploring the bigger picture of whether there is life elsewhere. Her work has embraced the power of interdisciplinary science and she is combining geological field work, geochemistry, astronomical observations, theory and space mission concepts to address fundamental questions about how Earth got its water. She began her career in physics and astronomy, with an undergraduate degree in Space Physics from Rice University and a Ph.D. in planetary physics from MIT in 1987 studying comets, after which she joined the faculty at the University of Hawai’i. She has served as the Graduate program chair from 2018-2021, and was the Interim Director for the IfA in 2021. She has won many awards for her work, including most recently the Dannie Heineman prize from the American Astronomical Society. She was Co-Investigator on three comet missions: Deep Impact, EPOXI and Stardust-NeXT. She has been leading the development of a Discovery class ($0.5 billion) space mission to study icy material in the asteroid belt. She also lead the team to characterize the first interstellar object that was discovered passing through our solar system.
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