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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=98 height=122 src="cid:image003.jpg@01CCFB90.35332B30" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>DICKSON DESPOMMIER TO SPEAK</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b><span style='color:maroon'>ON VERTICAL FARMING<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'>as part of the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center Short Course, April 9-13, 2012.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dickson D. Despommier is a microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. He conducts research on intracellular parasitism and teaches courses on Parasitic Diseases, Medical Ecology and Ecology. In recent years, Despommier has received considerable media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming. He developed his concept of vertical farming with graduate students in a medical ecology class in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Full Press Release Attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Short Course Information: <a href="http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac">http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none'><tr><td width=373 style='width:279.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#EAF1DD;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%'>PRESS RELEASE</span><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=313 style='width:234.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:44.1pt;text-indent:-44.1pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Date: March 6, 2012</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:44.1pt;text-indent:-44.1pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Contact: Liz MacLellan, Events Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:44.1pt;text-indent:-44.1pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Phone: 520-626-9566<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:44.1pt;text-indent:-44.1pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>email: <a href="mailto:lizmac@email.arizona.edu"><span style='color:windowtext'>lizmac@email.arizona.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%'>DICKSON DESPOMMIER TO SPEAK</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%'> <b>ON VERTICAL FARMING<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>as part of the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center Short Course, April 9-13, 2012.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Dickson D. Despommier is a microbiologist, ecologist and Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. He conducts research on intracellular parasitism and teaches courses on Parasitic Diseases, Medical Ecology and Ecology. In recent years, Despommier has received considerable media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming. He developed his concept of vertical farming with graduate students in a medical ecology class in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>The University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) 2012 Short Course will focus on Controlled Environment Agriculture for food production within traditional rural and non-traditional urban farms, with special concerns for water, energy use and environmental stewardship.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Tuesday, AZ March 6, 2012: The University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) presents the 2012 Crop Production & Engineering Design Short Course on April 8-12, 2012 at the Westward Look resort. It was just announced that Dr. Dickson D. Despommier will be the Guest Speaker at the Mission Award Dinner on Wednesday Evening, April 11, 2012 at the Westward Look Resort.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>Dr. Despommier was born in New Orleans in 1940, and grew up in California before moving to the New York area, where he now lives and work. He earned his Ph.D. degree in microbiology from the University of Notre Dame, and for 27 years, conducted laboratory-based biomedical research with NIH-sponsored support at Columbia University. He is now Emeritus Professor. Dr. Despommier has always been interested in the environment and the damage we have caused by the simple act of encroachment. At present, he is engaged in a project whose mission is to produce significant amounts of food crops in tall buildings situated in densely populated urban centers (see: <a href="http://www.verticalfarm.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.verticalfarm.com</span></a> and <i>The Vertical Farm</i>: <i>feeding the world in the 21st century</i>, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2010; paperback, Picadore Pubs. 2011). This initiative has grown in acceptance over the last few years to the point of stimulating planners and developers around the world to incorporate them into their vision for the future city. It is very likely that some form of the vertical farming will soon become part of the skyline of the built environment. There are now five vertical farms up and running: Korea, Japan, Holland and two in the U.S.A). Dr. Despommier has received numerous teaching awards, including the national American Medical Student Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003. He has published three books, over 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and numerous review articles on a wide variety of subjects. He has lectured on the subject of vertical farming at MIT, Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Columbia University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Brigham Young University, The Singularity University, and to various city (Chicago; New York City; Seattle; Newark, New Jersey; Los Angeles; Seoul, Korea; Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Bangalore and Coimbatore, India) and federal government agencies, including the IMF, USDA and USAID. He has been on the Colbert Report, and given a TED talk, PopTech, PINC, Ars Electronica, and five TEDx talks (Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, and Bermuda). He lives with his wife Marlene Bloom in Fort Lee, New Jersey. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>For more Short Course details and information, visit our website at <a href="http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac</span></a> or contact Liz MacLellan at 520-626-9566 <a href="mailto:lizmac@email.arizona.edu"><span style='color:windowtext'>lizmac@email.arizona.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>### </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'>Liz MacLellan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Administrative Assistant/Events Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>College of Agriculture and Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>1951 E Roger Rd, Tucson AZ 85719<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Phone: 520-626-9566 Fax: 520-626-1700<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:ceac@ag.arizona.edu"><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>ceac@ag.arizona.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> Web: </span><a href="http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>