2009-2010 George D. Aiken Lecture
Hosted by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

5:00 PM - Keynote address by journalist Paul Roberts:
6:30 PM - Book Signing

A journalist since 1983, Paul Roberts writes and lectures frequently on the complex interplay of economics, technology, and the natural world. The End of Food (2008 Houghton Mifflin) follows the successful publication of Roberts's first book, The End of Oil, published in 2004.

Roberts was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (1999) and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2005.

Roberts graduated from the University of Washington-Seattle in 1983 with a MA in communications. He has written for daily newspapers, and national and international publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times. His commentary has also appeared in USA Today, The New Republic, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, The (UK) Guardian, Slate, Rolling Stone, and Outside magazine, as well as on national and international television and radio news shows, including CNN's Lou Dobbs, the BBC, PBS NewsHour, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, and on NPR's Morning Edition, On Point, Weekend Edition, and Fresh Air.

Roberts is also working to develop a college-level curriculum for journalists interested in reporting on the economics and policy dimensions of natural and strategic resources. He lives in Washington State.