The Independent
On Tuesday, April 21, the Dixie State University “Dixie Forum: A Window on the World” series will come to a close for the spring 2015 semester with a presentation celebrating Earth Day. The presentation will take place at 12:50 p.m. in Dunford Auditorium in the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus and will be a collaborative effort between the DSU Sustainability Club, professors, and students. This final Dixie Forum presentation is free and open to the public.
The Dixie Forum lectures series is designed to be a benefit to not only DSU students, faculty, and staff but also the St. George community and southern Utah at large. These 50-minute presentations serve the dual purpose of introducing diverse ideas and personalities while broadening worldviews. This final Dixie Forum will be in celebration of the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, an international environmental movement which officially falls on April 22.
The final Dixie Forum presentation will feature a variety of DSU faces with different focuses and areas of expertise. DSU Sustainability Club President Trevor Anderson has an associate degree from Dixie, a bachelor’s from SUU, and is currently seeking a degree in secondary education in biology.
Professors Kelly Bringhurst and Rico Del Sesto will also be part of the presentation. Bringhurst is the department chair for DSU’s Physical Science department, and as part of teaching environmental science lecture and field courses, regularly takes his students to a variety of interesting locations, including Catalina Island, Costa Rica, and Zion National Park. Del Sesto is an assistant professor of chemistry with bachelor and doctorate degrees in chemistry and almost 20 years of performing research in the field, including work on enhancing the efficacy of antibiotics.
Also included as part of the presentation will be four students from Theda Wrede’s English class: Missy Jessop, Keiran Presland, Brett Stanfield, and Alena Weida. With a variety of different educational focuses, one thing that is consistent with these four students is an appreciation for the desert landscape of southern Utah and being in the outdoors, even if it’s just for writing inspiration.
The Dixie Forum series will resume after the fall 2015 academic semester gets underway. For more information on the Dixie State University Dixie Forum series, please contact forum coordinator John Burns at (435) 879-4712 or email [email protected] or visit www.dixie.edu/humanities/dixie_forum.php.
