Sources: Kristine Young, 785-532-5424, kkristin@k-state.edu;
and David Norman, 785-532-4484, dnorman@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Megan Wilson, 785-532-6415, media@k-state.edu
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007
DAVID NORMAN TO PRESENT K-STATE LARSON LECTURE ON 'LIVING AND WORKING AROUND THE WORLD'
MANHATTAN -- David Norman, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, will present the lecture "Living and Working Around the World" as part of the Vernon Larson International Lecture Series.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be from 12:20-1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Manhattan Holiday Inn, 17th Street and Anderson Avenue
Norman has been at K-State since 1968. His expertise is farmer-based research, sustainable agricultural and farming systems research and extension. He has served in many different capacities in more than 100 countries including Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America and Europe. He teaches a course on international agricultural development and an undergraduate course on the global agricultural economy, hunger and poverty. From 1965 to 1976, he worked in Northern Nigeria, where he headed the department of agricultural economics and rural sociology at Ahmadu Bello University. From 1982 to 1990, Norman headed an agricultural technology improvement project in Botswana.
Norman's work has been nominated for the American Agricultural Association Award for Publication of Enduring Quality. In 1999 and 2000 he was nominated by the president of the Rockefeller Foundation for the World Food Prize, which is the highest individual honor for outstanding achievement in improving the world's food supply.
Among his many honors for teaching, Norman received a Faculty of the Spring Award in 2000 from the K-State College of Agriculture; he was the recipient of the university's first International Education Award in 2003; he earned the Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award in 2004; and received a 2007 K-State Gamma Sigma Delta Distinguished Graduate Award.
The Vernon Larson International Lecture Series was started in 1979 by Larson, then director of international agriculture programs at K-State. The series consists of six lectures, three presented during the fall semester and three presented during the spring semester, and offers the K-State community a chance to hear presentations from faculty who have recently participated in extensive overseas activity or who are involved in major international activities.