Dr. Lowell Catlett will be the guest speaker at the annual Murphy Lecture at Southern Arkansas University to be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
Catlett is a full-time professor at New Mexico State University and is an exciting futurist whose knowledge of technologies and their implications on the way we live and work is addressed in his varied and upbeat presentation.
He received his doctorate in economics from Iowa State University and has twice received the Don C. Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Burlington Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding University Teaching. In 1994, he was one of two Western Regional recipients of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences Award.
Catlett recently received the College of Agriculture and Home Economics Advisor of the Year Award and the Teacher of the Year Award at New Mexico State University.
He is a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, the Interior, Defense, and Labor. He has also been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies.
The Murphy Lecture, sponsored by the College of Business at SAU and Murphy Oil Corporation in El Dorado, is free and open to the public.
For more information regarding the Murphy Lecture at SAU, call the College of Business at 870-235-4300.
