UPCOMING EVENTS
Applications for the 2015-16 Advance Team are now available! Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, March 27th, 2015. Please e-mail or deliver your application to: Logan Lundberg, Advance Team Leader. Application (word doc); application (pdf file)
Riley Institute Driving Social and Economic Progress: Read more
Riley Institute Moves South Carolina Forward: Greenville Business Magazine
Richard W. Riley: A Penny for His Thoughts: Greenville Business Magazine
March 25: Robert Musil, Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence, "Hope for a Heated Planet: What Would Rachel Carson Do?"
March 27-28: EPL Presentations; 2014-15 Class
May 5: Upstate Leaders Diversity Awards Dinner
June 21-27: Emerging Public Leaders Program 2015. Please click here to apply; deadline for application is Friday, May 1, 2015.
July 18-24: Teachers of Government Program 2015. To apply, click here; deadline for application is Friday, March 27, 2015.
RECENT EVENTS
July - August: Straight Talk SC: Can't Win for Losing
September 4: Andrew Michta, Ph.D., "U.S., Russia and Crisis in Ukraine: How Bad Can This Get?"
September 17: Constitution Day, Watkins Room in the Trone Student Center, 4 p.m.
September 22-23: China's Environmental Crisis: Is There a Way Out
October 2: Dick and Tunky Riley WhatWorksSC Award
October 5-10: WRP Class of 2014-15
October 21: Gubernatorial Debate at Furman, McAlister Auditorium
October 30: StraightTalk SC FOLLOW UP SESSION! Spent: Looking for Change
January 13, 2015: Wilkins Legislative and Civic Awards Dinner
January 29-30, 2015: Law & Society Series; for more information, click here.
February 9-10, 2015: Women in Public Media
Check our calendar for all events at the Riley Institute including the Diversity Leaders Initiative and the Center for Education Policy and Leadership
SPOTLIGHT
Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence
Robert Musil, Ph.D.
President and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council
March 22 - 27, 2015
"Hope for a Heated Planet: What Would Rachel Carson Do?"
Watkins Room I Trone Student Center
March 25 at 7 p.m.
Robert Musil, Ph.D., will be on the campus of Furman University from March 22 – 27, 2015. Dr. Musil will spend his time interacting with students discussing how they can be civically engaged, take on leadership roles, and make a difference.
Dr. Musil is president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council, the legacy organization envisioned by Rachel Carson and founded in 1965 by her closest friends and colleagues. He is also senior fellow and adjust professor at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University.
His public address, “Hope for a Heated Planet: What Would Rachel Carson Do?” will be held Wednesday, March 25, at the Trone Student Center on Furman’s campus at 7:00 p.m. The program is free and open to the public.
For full biographical information, please click here.
