Jeffrey Sachs was on campus last Friday to kick off the new OSU Discovery Theme Lecture Series. I had the privilege of hosting Jeff for a small session with a sample of students majoring in Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability.
Here's a couple of photos. Not sure why I'm giving him the stink-eye.
Here's the full session:
Here's Sachs asking me how I got to be so freakishly tall (and why I didn't shave) ?
Posting on behalf of Carolina who asks:
“Are you going to use these pictures to claim that you’re a development economist?”
Let’s follow the bouncing ball: On her Colgate profile, Carolina lists herself as a development economist. I was her primary advisor. Therefore…
Do you guys ever call it (AED) a three legged stool? and then fight over which is the first leg? and then the department peacemaker says that the stool will fall over if one of the legs is removed? and then everyone mutters do themselves as they drag themselves back to their offices?
Daily.
(Things get really fun on the rare occasion we have a faculty position to fight over).
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