Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Location: Reading Room, Cowles Library, 2507 University Ave., Des Moines, IA 50311

The Harkin Institute, in partnership with the World Food Prize, will host its annual senior lecture featuring Dr. Aditi Mukherji of Nepal at 2 p.m. on Thursday, October. 18 in the Reading Room at Cowles Library on the Drake University campus.

Dr. Mukherji is the first ever recipient of the Borlaug Field Award, which recognizes “exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40 who has clearly emulated the same intellectual courage, stamina and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty as was demonstrated by Dr. Norman Borlaug as a young scientist.”

Address: 2429 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311 Phone: 515-271-3623 Fax Number: 515-271-3631 Email: harkininstitute@drake.edu Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.