Global Issues Colloquium to Discuss Nicaragua Gran Canal

As part of the Global Issues Colloquium series, LaRoy Brant, assistant professor of biology, will present “The Nicaragua Gran Canal: Do We Really Need It?” at 7 p.m. March 3 in Magruder Hall 2001.

The colloquium will discuss environmental conservation and marine biology during a political and economic moment in Nicaragua’s history: should Nicaragua permit China to build its proposed Gran Canal - a waterway larger than the Panama Canal - across Nicaragua?

Other upcoming colloquiums this semester are Virginia Lynch, founder of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, with “Forensic Nursing Strategies: Global Issues in Health and Justice” at 7 p.m. March 31 in Violette Hall 1010, and Anton Daughters, assistant professor of anthropology, with “Observations of Daily Life in Rural Southern Chile” at 7 p.m. April 14 in Magruder Hall 2001.

Sponsored by the Global Issues Committee, the series is presented for educational or civic purposes. For more information on the spring’s colloquiums, visit globalissues.truman.edu.