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anet Napolitano; Bob Walkup, mayor of Tucson; Jeremy Harris, president of the International Mayors Institute; and Secretary Douglas Foy, director of the Commonwealth Development Office in Boston.

UA Provost George Davis will give the welcoming address. Keynote speakers include Ofelia Zepeda, professor of linguistics at the UA; Columbia University Architecture Professor Kenneth Frampton; McGill University Architecture Professor Alberto Prez Gomez; and Fernando Prez-Oyarzun, a professor of architecture at PUC in Santiago.

A number of University of Arizona faculty will serve as panelists, including Nader Chalfoun, Ralph Hammann, Alvaro Malo and Ignacio San Martin (School of Architecture); Robert Glennon Jr. (College of Law); Sharon Megdal (Water Resources Research Center); Jonathan Overpeck, (Institute for the Study of Planet Earth); and Bill Shaw (School of Natural Resources).

The symposium is sponsored by a Richard A. Harvill Foundation Grant for the Advancement of Higher Education. The Richard A. Harvill Memorial Endowment Committee and the Richard A. Harvill Conferences are designed to explore challenges facing universities and colleges. Richard Anderson Harvill, who guided the UA for 20 years, stressed the importance of the UA's threefold role of this university - education, research, and service.


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Contact: Ignacio San Martin
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520-621-6744
University of Arizona
13-Dec-2004


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