Speakers named for Norman Borlaug Lecture at Iowa State
2010 World Food Prize recipients David Beckmann and Jo Luck will present the ninth annual Norman Borlaug Lecture at Iowa State University, officials announced Wednesday. Their presentation, “Grassroots Efforts in the Fight against Global Hunger,’ will be at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11. Beckmann is the president of the organization Bread for the World and Luck is president and CEO of Heifer International. The lecture series was created by Iowa State to be held in conjunction with World Food Prize events, and was named after Norman Borlaug, an Iowa native who won the Nobel Prize for his international work in wheat research and production and founded the World Food Prize.