Energy and the Public Interest

Presented by THE SAMUEL V. WILSON CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
and the ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM
at HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, VIRGINIA


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

7:30 p.m. Crawley Forum
Welcoming Remarks
Earl W. Fleck, Ph.D.
Provost & Dean of the Faculty
Hampden-Sydney College

" Energy Resources for a Modernizing World:
Thinking and Acting Outside the Box"

Panelists:
Dennis E. Buffington, Ph.D.
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

Christopher T. Chapel '93
Director, Governmental Affairs Division
Florida Power & Light

Chair:
Kenneth N. Townsend, PhD.
Elliott Professor of Economics
Hampden-Sydney College



WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

4:00 p.m. Parents and Friends Lounge
"A Nuclear Power Comeback in the United States:
Are the American People Ready?"

A. David Rossin, PhD.
Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford University

Chair:
Walter "Mike" C. McDermott III, Ph.D.
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Hampden-Sydney College

7:30 p.m. Crawley Forum
"Energy and National Security:
A Critical Relationship"

Mark E. Rodekohr, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Director, Energy Markets & Contingency Information Division,
United States Department of Energy

Chair:
Lt. General Samuel V. Wilson (U.S.A. ret)
President Emeritus and Wheat Professor of Leadership
Hampden-Sydney College



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

4:30 p.m. Parents and Friends Lounge
From Here to Where: Forging a National Energy Strategy
for the Twenty-First Century

Panelists
Julie A. Carruthers, Ph.D.
Science and Technology Policy Advisor
Office of Science, United States Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.

Samuel B. "Sandy" McLaughlin '65 Ph.D.
Research Professor, University of Tennessee
Senior Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ret.)

Chair
Kenneth N. Townsend, Ph.D.
Elliott Professor of Economics
Hampden-Sydney College


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006

7:30 p.m., Parents and Friends Lounge
Nuclear Power and Climate Change:
Criteria for an Ethical Energy Strategy"

Kristin Shrader Frechette, Ph.D.
O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame

Chair:
Anne C. Lund, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College

Closing Remarks

David E. Marion, Ph.D.
Director, Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest
Hampden-Sydney College