[SEMCO] WHRC Seminar - 24 May - 2 PM

[Allison White]

****************NEWS OF THE WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER*********************

The Woods Hole Research Center will sponsor a seminar on Friday, May 24,
2002, entitled “Tropical Economy and Economic Development.” Renowned
economist and Harvard Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs will speak at Fisher House,
13 Church Street in Woods Hole at 2 p.m.

Professor Sachs is director of the Center for International Development at
Harvard, whose mission is to improve the economic well being and health of
all peoples in the world, is a part of both the John F. Kennedy School of
Government and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

In January of this year Professor Sachs was appointed as special advisor to
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is a
research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and recently
he has served as chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of
the World Health Organization and as an economic advisor to governments in
Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Professor Sachs is the
recipient of many awards and honors, and The New York Times Magazine has
called him “probably the most important economist in the world.”

This spring Professor Sachs was named director of the Columbia University
Earth Institute and will begin his New York post in the summer as professor
of economics, international and public affairs, and health policy and
management. Sachs’s research at Columbia will concern the effects of arsenic
in the water of Bangladesh and international HIV/AIDS initiatives.

The Church Street bridge is under construction. Coming from Falmouth, turn
left on Nobska Road (just before Church Street). Turn right at the stop
sign, then proceed under the bridge and around Nobska point to the end of
the street. Parking is available on the street or in the parking lot
adjacent to the church cemetery.

The Woods Hole Research Center seminars are free and open to all in an
effort to bring global environmental issues to the community. For further
information, please call 508.540.9900 or visit www.whrc.org.