Professor Calestuous Juma (1993 Laureates) to speak at ISU, Grinnell

Calestous Juma, an expert on technology's role in sustainable development and a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, will speak in central Iowa this week as part of the sixth John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture.

The annual event honors Curtiss Distinguished Professor John Pesek for his contributions to Iowa State University in Ames and to sustainable agriculture.

Juma is director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard's Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass. He chaired a U.N. millennium project on science, technology and innovation, and he is chairman of the Committee on Global Challenges and Directions for Agricultural Biotechnology of the U.S. National Academies.

On Thursday at Iowa State, Juma will speak about "Reinventing African Economies." On Friday at Grinnell College, he will speak on "Shaping the New Biosociety."

Each event will be followed by comments from panelists and from the audience. Both are free and open to the public.