DATE: Friday, Feb. 20, 2009

TIME: 7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: UNLV Student Union Ballroom

DETAILS: Free and open to the public

In his talk, "Water in the West," David M. Kennedy, McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University, will examine the reasons why the American West has a limited supply of water and possible solutions to fix the predicament.

Kennedy is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His training is in interdisciplinary studies combining the fields of history, literature and economics. He is known for the cultural analysis of social and political history. He is the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945."

This lecture is co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of History, Nevada Humanities, CSUN and the Stanford Alumni Association of Southern Nevada. It is one of many events in the University Forum Lecture Series.

For more information on the University Forum, please visit http://liberalarts.unlv.edu/calendar or call the history department at (702) 895-3349.