Inside Iowa State

Feb. 15, 2008

ISU alum explores the future Feb. 21

by Brian Meyer, Agriculture and Life Sciences Communications

Internationally renowned speaker and futurist Lowell Catlett will present "Dreaming the Future: Trends and Technologies for the Next 150 Years" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. His lecture is the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' ISU Sesquicentennial Lecture.

An ISU alumnus, Catlett currently is Regent's professor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. During his presentation, he will walk the audience through potential futures and how to prepare to make the next 150 years the most "phenomenal" in history. Catlett is known for his varied and upbeat presentations in which he shares his knowledge of technologies and their implications on the way society lives and works.

Catlett is a native Texan who earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural business and economics from West Texas State University (1973), his master's in agricultural economics at New Mexico State (1975) and his doctorate in economics at Iowa State (1980).

He has been a consultant for the U.S. departments of the Interior, Defense and Labor, as well as for many Fortune 500 companies.

Futurist and ISU alumnus Lowell Catlett will present "Dreaming the Future: Trends and Technologies for the next 150 Years" at 7 p.m. Feb. 21, in the Memorial Union Sun Room.