Welcome

Alan Fox, President of the Faculty Senate and Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Delaware

Opening Keynote Address

His Excellency

Zhou Wenzhong

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America

Challenges and Opportunities in Alternative Energy

Moderated by

Mark Barteau

Director of the UD Energy Institute and Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware

In the Company of Women: Women Leaders in American Business

Moderated by

Patricia Sloane-White

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware

The Future of Public Education

Moderated by

Nancy Brickhouse

Director, University of Delaware School of Education

Playing Wall Street: Demonstrating UD’s new Exelon Trading Center

Demonstration by

Richard Holowczak

Director, Bert W. and Sandra Wasserman Trading Floor, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College

Building Hope across the Globe: Engineers without Borders

Moderated by

Michael Chajes

Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Delaware

Corporate Governance: Where We Have Been, Where We are Going

Moderated by

Charles Elson

Director, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware

An Uncertain Future: Public and Private Asset Management and Retirement Planning

Moderated by

Laurence Seidman

Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economic, University of Delaware

Climate Change: New Thinking for New Weather

Moderated by

Ralph Begleiter

Rosenberg Professor of Communications and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, University of Delaware

From Kuala Lumpur to Katrina: Arts and Humanities Education in the 21st Century

Moderated by

Ann Ardis

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware

Beyond Science: the Future of Health Care, America, and the Life Sciences at UD

Moderated by

Thomas Apple

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware