Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Van Duzer is the author of “Why Business Matters to God: And What Still Needs to be Fixed” and dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. He is also professor of business ethics and law, and prior to his work with SPU he served as a partner with Davis A Wright Tremaine, an international law firm. Van Duzer has spoken at a number of different venues, including Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Gospel and Culture Lectures in 2010.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
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January 11 – Captain Scotty Smiley – "Hope Unseen" – 12:30 p.m.
Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Captain Smiley, a Ranger and combat-diver qualified infantryman, was the Army’s first active-duty, blind officer and its first blind company commander. On April 6, 2005, he lost use of both eyes when a suicide car bomber blew himself up 30 meters in front of Scotty’s Stryker vehicle. Since that day, Smiley has surfed Hawaii, skied in Vail, skydived, climbed Mount Rainier, completed a triathlon, and graduated from Duke university’s Fuqua School of Business with his MBA. The Army Times named Captain Smiley its Soldier of the Year in 2007, and in 2008 he won an ESPY as the world’s Best Outdoor Athlete. Scotty, a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, recently taught the core course in leadership at West Point and now commands the Warrior Transition Unit at West Point’s Keller Army Medical Center. Captain Smiley was recently named a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Leadership Award.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.
January 10 – Peter Diamandis – "Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think" – 12:30 p.m.
Calvin College January Series 2013- Remote Live Webcast
Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X Prize foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. He is the chair of Singularity University, which teaches executives and graduate students about exponentially growing technologies, and he is the founder of more than a dozen space and high tech companies. He has degrees in molecular biology and aerospace enginerring from MIT, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the Dogwood Center from 12:30-1:30 p.m.. Admission is free. For those who would like a lunch provided for a donation, please call 231.924.8885 to reserve one at least 24 in advance of the lecture you would like to attend.