I found this info via my feed, but it was published on the Michigan State University news site:
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will be in Michigan to outline an emerging agenda that will make “green power the next great global industry.”
The program, featuring Friedman and remarks by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon is Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 12:20 p.m. at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center. Registration for the Michigan Business Review’s “The Innovation Experience” begins at 10:30 a.m.
I don’t know if I could make it if I wanted to– pesky teaching schedules and such– but does anyone out there know if EMU students/faculty/staff/etc. are invited and able to go to this thing that is going to be on our campus?
I swear I saw this on the Convocation Center page, labeled as the “Thomas Friedman Experience” but I could find no traces of him actually coming anywhere on the net.
I love his work, and would give my right arm to see him talk, so if anyone does know how to get in, please do tell.
Pay the admission fee. This is a Washtenaw Economic Cllub activity: Thomas L. Friedman
Wednesday, September 17
LUNCH TICKETS: Sold Out
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS: $30.00
BY PHONE: 734- 487-2282 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
ONLINE: http://www.emich.edu/convocation
Agenda
10:30 a.m. Doors Open – Atrium
The Innovation Experience – This is an opportunity to meet this year’s most innovative Michigan companies working in the alternative energy fields of wind, solar, biofuel and energy storage
11:30 a.m. Doors Open – Arena
WEC Luncheon with Thomas L. Friedman (Arena Floor) Lunch is Pre-set General Admission (Arena Seating)
12:30 p.m. Thomas L. Friedman, author of Hot Flat and Crowded Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America
1:30 p.m. Q & A Thomas L. Friedman and U of M President, Mary Sue Coleman
2:00 p. m. Adjourn to the Innovation Experience
Mr. Friedman’s book, “Hot, Flat and Crowded – Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America, released August 8, 2008, will be available for purchase ($30).
Thanks for the info!
Like I said, I probably can’t go anyway, but it’d be an interesting event for many other EMU types, I am sure.