About our Homecoming Speakers
Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana's 2009 International Speaker Series featuring Tom Friedman, Friday, November 6, 7:00 p.m. The Centre, 715 Locust Street, Free and Open to the Public.
Since the publication of his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman has become the writer the public looks to for the straight talk and reliable information it needs about the world — especially when events seem too menacing to comprehend and policy discussions are clouded in a smokescreen of politics and posturing. Covering many of the monumental stories of recent decades, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes and been called "the country's best newspaper columnist" by Vanity Fair.
His new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America (Sept. '08), is a #1 New York Times bestseller. His previous bestseller, The World is Flat, has sold more than two million copies. His other bestsellers include Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, The Lexus and the Olive Tree and From Beirut to Jerusalem, which serves as a basic text on the Middle East in colleges and universities nationwide and won the National Book Award. Friedman appears in his own segment, "Tom's Journal," on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and is a frequent guest on programs such as Face the Nation and Charlie Rose. His TV documentaries, "Searching for the Roots of 9/11," "The Other Side of Outsourcing" and "Addicted to Oil," have aired on the Discovery Channel.
Second Annual Alumni Homecoming Lecture featuring R. Edward Coleman '65, Saturday, November 7, 10 a.m. Eykamp Hall, Room 252, Ridgway University Center.
R. Edward Coleman, M.D., a native of southern Indiana, graduated from Evansville Bosse High School and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Evansville. He received his MD degree from Washington University Medical School in 1968, completed a medical internship at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis and an internal medicine residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. After a 2 year stint with the U S Army, he returned to St Louis in 1972 for a fellowship in nuclear medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. During that time, positron emission tomography (PET) was developed and initially evaluated.
He was the first physician to demonstrate the potential clinical utility of PET imaging by conducting the first human studies using PET in the early 1970's, and he has maintained a research and clinical interest in PET since that time. He has lectured extensively and published more than 500 articles on the applications of PET imaging, including its use and evaluation of patients with cancer and dementia. Demonstrating the clinical utility of PET and obtaining appropriate reimbursement for PET studies are areas of significant importance to him.
Currently serving as a vice chair and professor in the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center, he is also the founder of and first president of the Institute of Clinical PET (ICP) and president of the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI). He currently holds a major leadership role in the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) and, in 2007, was awarded the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
