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BURLINGTON, VT (03/11/2011)(readMedia)-- The following events are upcoming at Champlain College in Burlington. Unless otherwise noted, they are free and open to the public.

Stonyfield CE-Yo to Speak at Champlain College

The Champlain College Bring Your Own Business (BYOBiz) Speaking From Experience Series presents Gary Hirshberg, Chairman and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, Tuesday, March 15 at 7 p.m. in Roger H. Perry Hall, Champlain College. Free and open to the public.

Gary Hirshberg has a long history of working to change how we grow food, the food we eat, and the business of food. In the 1970s Gary worked at the New Alchemy Institute proving we can grow food without using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or other chemicals. He has helped make Stonyfield Farm a successful producer of organic yogurt with sales exceeding $360 million. In addition to building Stonyfield Farm, he is helping others go green as well, proving that is not just the right thing to do, but a great way to build a successful business.

For more information: BYOBiz Program Director, Bob Bloch, BYOBiz@champlain.edu (802) 865-6490 www.champlain.edu/byobiz.html

Digital Forensics Analyst to Visit

Champlain College's Computer and Digital Forensics will host Doug Koster, a senior computer forensics analyst on Tuesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. in Joyce 202. Koster, who works at TASC, an advanced systems engineering, technical assistance and other analysis and advisory service working with the intelligence, defense, homeland security and federal markets. http://www.tasc.com/.

He will be demonstrating some open source forensics software as well as some advanced digital forensic analysis techniques. Questions about the visit, contact Jonathan T. Rajewski, MS, CCE, EnCe, CISSP, CFE Assistant Professor, Digital Forensics, Champlain College Co-Director/Principal Investigator, Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation (C3DI) Digital Forensic Examiner, Vermont Internet Crimes Task Force.

Iraqi Ambassador to Speak with Students

His Excellency Ambassador Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie, The Ambassador of Iraq to Washington DC will speak at Champlain College on Tuesday, March 29 from 5 to 6 pm in the Roger H.Perry Hall Presentation Room.

His topic: Economic and Environmental Sustainability in Post-Transition Iraq.Presented in partnership with Vermont Council on World Affairs and the Champlain College Office of International Education.

About the Ambassador:

H.E. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida'ie was appointed Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in July 2004. In April 2006, he moved to Washington DC as Iraq's first ambassador to the United States of America for fifteen years. Prior to his appointment to the U.N., Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as Minister of the Interior in Baghdad. In this capacity he managed a domestic security force of over 120,000 and made considerable progress in reconstituting, and reorganizing the Ministry and its operations. In addition, Ambassador Sumaida'ie served as a member of Governing Council (GC) in Iraq. In the GC, he was Chairman of the Media Committee, and in that role he played an integral role in the founding of the Iraqi Telecoms and Media Commission and the Public Broadcasting Institution. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and member of the Security and Finance Committees.

Prior to the removal of the Baathist regime, Ambassador Sumaida'ie was actively involved in opposition efforts. During his years of exile, based in London and traveling in the Mid- and Far- East, he was a leading figure in the opposition to Saddam's regime and helped form a number of political groups. He co-founded the Association of Iraqi Democrats and later, the Democratic Party of Iraq. And, as leader of these organizations attended practically all opposition conferences throughout the world, and built close working relationships with other leaders of the opposition who went on to become principal political leaders of the New Iraq.

A successful businessman, Ambassador Sumaida'ie founded a procurement agency in 1978 and embarked on a number of entrepreneurial ventures in his career. In the 1980's Ambassador Sumaida'ie established a design office in London, pioneered the use of computers in Islamic art and completed important works in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. In the mid-nineties, he expanded his activities into China and opening an office in Beijing as a business consultant.

Ambassador Sumaida'ie was born in Baghdad. Upon finishing high school in 1960, he won a scholarship to study abroad in the UK where he graduated from Durham University with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965 and took a diploma in Computing in 1966. He then returned to Iraq as one the first few computer specialists to work with the Baghdad Electricity Board and Iraqi Petroleum Company before leaving the country in 1973.

Ireland's Economic Debacle: Origins and Consequences at Champlain

Champlain College Visiting Professor Dr. Anthony O' Halloran will trace the origins of Ireland's current economic crisis and assess its immediate and long-term consequences on March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Champlain College Alumni Auditorium in Burlington. It is free and open to the public.

Ireland currently faces its gravest crisis since the Civil War of the early 1920s. The so-called 'Celtic Tiger' economy of record levels of economic growth is now a historical memory. Replaced by rising unemployment, a collapse in the property market, resumed emigration and an IMF/EU financial bailout, the mood is Ireland is very pessimistic at present. In fact, much of the public discourse suggests that Ireland's de facto sovereignty is severely limited, particularly in the economic sphere.

Dr. Halloran is a political scientist who lectures at Champlain College's Dublin Centre. He is author of The Dáil in the 21st Century (Mercier Press, Cork 2010), co-editor of Walls, Fences, Borders and Boundaries: Essays on Social Exclusion, Inclusion and Integration (Kendall Hunt, Iowa 2010) and co-author of Politics in a Changing Ireland 1960-2007: A Tribute to Seamus Pattison (IPA, Dublin 2008).

The talk is sponsored by the Champlain College Core Division, the Office of International Education and the Vermont Council on World Affairs.

Calendar Listing:

Ireland's Economic Debacle: Origins and Consequences, March 31, 7 p.m. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, Vt. Champlain College Visiting Professor Dr. Anthony O' Halloran will trace the origins of Ireland's current economic crisis and assess its immediate and long-term consequences. Dr. Halloran is a political scientist who lectures at Champlain College's Dublin Centre. It is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Champlain College Core Division, the Office of International Education and the Vermont Council on World Affairs. For more information, www.champlain.edu.

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