Honors Lecture of the Year
| Oct 12th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm | < Previous Page |
| Event Name*: | Honors Lecture of the Year |
| Event Date*: | February 12, 2013 |
| Event Time*: | 7:00pm |
| Event Location*: | ASU Student Union Auditorium |
| Other Information: | The Honors College at Arkansas State University, along with many co-sponsors, will be hosting the 5th annual Honors Lecture of the Year. This year our guest will be Tori Murden McClure who is the President of Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She is best known as the first woman and first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She rowed a twenty-three foot boat alone and without physical support a distance of more than 3,300 miles. Tori was one of two women and six Americans who were the first women and first Americans to travel over land to the geographic South Pole, skiing 750 miles from the ice shelf to the pole. An avid mountaineer, Tori has climbed on several continents and she was the first woman to climb Lewis Nunatuck summit in Antarctica. She is the author of “A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean” which has been selected for the Honors Lecture of the Year.
Tori will also participate in several roundtable discussions and be a guest lecturer while she is visiting ASU in February 2013. For more information about Tori Murden McClure, please visit: http://vimeo.com/11465996 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR200904... (Washington Post book review) |
| Contact Person: | Rebecca Oliver |
| Phone Number: | 9723977 |
| Email Address: | rsoliver@astate.edu |