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World Food Prize laurete to speak

Today at 10 a.m., 1999 World Food Prize Laureate Walter Plowright will be speaking in Room 1226 of the Veterinary Medicine College about his award.

Plowright pioneered a vaccine for the rinderpest disease, now named the Plowright vaccine. The disease has cost farmers around the world billions of dollars.

The vaccine offers livestock long-term immunity from the disease, and it will be particularly helpful in developing nations, improving food safety and quality across the board.

The award was given to Plowright Thursday in Des Moines at a ceremony attended by founder of the award Dr. Norman Borlaug, Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole, and Gov. Tom Vilsack. Plowright received $250,000 for his efforts.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Art history professor to discuss ‘Art and Algorithm’

Roman Verostko will be presenting a lecture titled “Art and Algorithm: Classical Traditions Revisited” today at 4 p.m. in Room 416 of the Design College.

Verostko, who teaches art history at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, is best known for developing the first software-driven physical paint brush.

Noted for his international work, he taught modern Western art history in China (1985) and has received Honorary Mention at Austria’s 1993 Prix Art Electronica and First Prize at Germany’s 1994 Golden Plotter.

Some of his recent projects include a 40-foot mural for the new Science and Engineering Center at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Lecture will address Catholic church’s future

Rev. Thomas P. Rausch will be presenting a lecture titled “What Is the Future of the Catholic Church” tonight at 8 in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Rausch, professor of Catholic theology and chairman of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, teaches in the area of ecclesiology, christology and ecumenism.

He is best noted for his authoring background, having written six books including “The Roots of the Catholic Tradition” and “Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium.”

The lecture is free and open to the public.