The third week of April 2005, Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug and his associate Christopher Dowswell visited NC State.  During his visit Dr. Borlaug held several seminars with students and faculty from the colleges of Natural Resources and Agriculture and Life Sciences; met with a high school environmental science class at Broughton High School and delivered a public lecture entitled Bridging the Divide between Environment, Agriculture and Forestry.  Mr. Dowswell delivered a lecture entitled Meeting the Millennium Development Goal of Cutting Hunger by Half by 2015.

Dr. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for a lifetime of work aimed at feeding the hungry, a prerequisite for peace. He is credited with saving more lives than any person who has ever lived. Dr. Borlaug's greatest achievement was the development of wheat varieties with resistance to disease, adaptation to environment, and exceedingly high yields. These findings transformed agricultural production in Mexico, and later in Asia, Australia and the Americas, sparking what today is known as "The Green Revolution.“ He is the President of the Sasakawa Africa Association.

Mr. Dowswell is the Special Assistant to the President & Director of Communications of the Sasakawa Africa Association and an active member of the United Nations Millennium Development Project Hunger Task Force.

Dr. Borlaug's Public Lecture Transcript (pdf)

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CNR-CALS Joint Award for Service to the Environment and Society

For more information, contact Dr. Dan Robison, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, at 919-515-5314 or Dan_Robison@ncsu.edu .