{"286551":{"#nid":"286551","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Karlovitz Lecture with Dr. Devon Graham","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESelfish Altruism: Making the World a Better Place for All the Wrong Reasons\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Devon Graham is a tropical ecologist and professor at Florida International University who has worked 6 months a year in the Peruvian Amazon for the past 16 years.\u0026nbsp; He the president and scientific director of the non-profit organization,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.projectamazonas.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProject Amazonas\u003C\/a\u003E, which works to conserve the rainforest and help the people of the Amazon with medical and other needs. \u0026nbsp;Join the GT Honors Program and the College of Sciences for a lively, dynamic lecture performed by an expert field ecologist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ESelfish Altruism: Making the World a Better Place for All the Wrong Reasons\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ELessons Learned in the Amazon and Elsewhere\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlobally, wealth is increasingly concentrated, yet more and more countries are officially \u201cemerging from poverty.\u201d\u0026nbsp; In the case of Peru and its natural resources, a booming national economy has transformed central urban areas, yet, in the slums and outside the cities, vulnerable populations still live as their grandparents did\u2014or worse. Rural-urban inequalities, slow progress on social justice, corruption, greed, and the environment itself are great challenges, but individuals, organizations and institutions can make a real difference, even if their motives are often selfish.\u0026nbsp; The non-profit \u003Cem\u003EProject Amazonas\u003C\/em\u003E works in the Amazon on a range of humanitarian, conservation, and education programs. Drawing on the experiences, successes and failures of hundreds of volunteers, students, researchers and others, I maintain that nice guys (and gals) don\u2019t finish last, and that looking out for #1, can, and should be an opportunity to reduce socioeconomic inequities and environmental degradation\u2013 to the benefit of all.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Selfish Altruism: Making the World a Better Place for All the Wrong Reasons"}],"uid":"27964","created_gmt":"2014-03-28 10:06:02","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:22:50","author":"Jasmine Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-04-02T22:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-04-03 02:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-04-03 04:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-04-03 04:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"59251","name":"karlovitz lecture"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMonica Halka\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:monica.halka@carnegie.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emonica.halka@carnegie.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}