URI honors program to explore global change

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island’s 2008 Honors Colloquium, “People and Planet – Global Environmental Change,” will explore human-caused global change, its consequences and potential responses through a series of lectures, films, exhibits and a cabaret.
The series of free, weekly events featuring international experts and URI faculty members will run from Sept. 9 to Dec. 9. Most events will take place on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Chafee Social Science Center, 10 Chafee Road, on the Kingston campus.
The foundation of the colloquium is a series of lectures examining the history, science, effects and solutions to global warming and other environmental changes.
In addition to the lectures, URI faculty members will use film clips to discuss the topic in a sometimes irreverent way.
The final event, on Dec. 9, will be “It’s a Shore Thing: A Coastal Cabaret,” which will use music to take a whimsical look at global environmental change along Rhode Island’s coastlines. For a complete, up-to-date schedule of events and activities, visit the Honors Program Web site at www.uri.edu/hc or call 874-2381. &#8226