The Meaning of the Life and Work of George Washington Carver in Today's World

ISU Professor Harold McNabb will moderate a discussion with scholars and officials including ISU alum Paxton Williams; William N. Jackson, superintendent of the Carver national Monument; Herman Blake, chair of the ISU African American Studies Program; George Jackson, assistant dean of the ISU Graduate College; ISU Herbarium curator Deborah Lewis, and Food Science and Human Nutrition associate professor Deland Myers. Exhibits related to Carver's career and life will be on display in the South Ballroom throughout the day. The forum is part of the events celebrating the presentation of the Iowa Award to George Washington Carver, Iowa State's first African American graduate and faculty member.