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Columbia University Club of North Texas (CUCNT) News
LECTURE SERIES:
Professor Lloyd J. Dumas
Columbia University Alumni & Former Columbia University Faculty Member
From Enemies to Friends: Using Economic Relationships to Build and Keep the Peace
CUCNT Lecture Series | Medical City Dallas, TX | Friday October 17, 2008
Click Here to Register for Event
Biography
LLOYD J. DUMAS
Professor of Political Economy, Economics and Public Policy
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Trained both as an economist and an engineer, Dr. Dumas' areas of expertise include: 1) National and international security; 2) Human fallibility, terrorism and technological disaster; 3) The environment and global climate change; and 4) Economic transition and development;
He has published six books and more than 120 articles in 11 languages in books and journals of economics, engineering, sociology, history, public policy, military studies and peace science, as well as in such newspapers/magazines as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Science magazine, Boston Globe, Technology Review, Defense News, and the Dallas Morning News. His policy analysis, "Seeds of Opportunity: Climate Change Challenges and Solutions" was published online by the Civil Society Institute (www.civilsocietyinstitute.org) in April 2006. He is currently writing his seventh book, Economics and International Security.
Dr. Dumas has been quoted as an authority in Time, Business Week, Financial Times, Science, Der Spiegel, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post, among many others. He has addressed the United Nations, testified at city, state and federal government hearings, and discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 300 TV and radio programs in the U.S., former Soviet Union, Russia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific.
He has spoken at more than 250 conferences and special lectures since 1980, including symposia sponsored by Sandia Nuclear Weapons Laboratories, Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratories, the State Department, the United Nations, the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and J.P. Morgan Chase, as well as professional meetings of 9 academic disciplines, financiers and members of Congress.
From 1991-93, Dumas was Vice Chair of the Governor's Taskforce on Economic Transition of the State of Texas. From 1994-1996, he was consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratories on expanding civilian R&D at the Labs. In 1999, he co-organized (with Dr. Ali Mazrui), an International Conference on Peacekeeping, Development and Demilitarization in Africa, sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation and U.S. Institute of Peace. From 2002-2007, he (with Dr. J. Wedel) was awarded Ford Foundation grants to develop a code of ethics for and methods for increasing transparency/accountability of international economic consulting on development and transition.
Dumas currently heads an interdisciplinary research team of UTD faculty working on issues of human rights and the asylum process in collaboration with an NGO called the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, under a grant from the Overbrook Foundation. He also heads a national working group on climate change in collaboration with the Civil Society Institute of Massachusetts.
Dr. Dumas attended Columbia College (B.A., Mathematics, 1967), the School of Engineering and Applied Science (M.S., Industrial Engineering, 1968) and the Graduate Faculties (Ph.D., Economics, 1972), all divisions of Columbia University. He taught economics for three years at City University of New York, and engineering for six years at Columbia University, joining the faculty of Social Sciences at University of Texas at Dallas in 1979.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT:
Tracy Pierce Bender
Columbia College 1992
This September 11th, against the backdrop of Columbia University, both presidential candidates spoke about "service to our country" as a most noble cause and essential element in the future success of our nation. How fitting, both that Columbia provide the forum for this discussion, and that it occur on this tragically momentous anniversary date in American history. And, how fitting that we now spotlight a Columbia Alumnus, Tracy Pierce Bender CC '92, who is both a survivor of the events of September 11th as well as humanitarian serving families and children with autism on local, national and international levels.
Tracy lost her husband, Brent Woodall, on September 11th, 2001. Up until this time, Tracy was actively pursuing her doctoral degree in New York City while Brent was working tirelessly in the World Trade Center for Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, Inc. as an Equity Salesperson. They were young and newly pregnant, and both shared a dream of living a long, healthy, loving life together, raising many children as well as continuing the work Tracy had started - helping families and children with autism.
Tracy's decision to keep the dream that she and Brent shared alive became a reality when she, with the help of friends and family here in North Texas, created the Brent Woodall Foundation for Exceptional Children in April 2004. With a number of programs aimed at providing both direct services using an ABA approach and including individual and group therapies, parent trainings and support, as well as non-direct services including community education, consultation, grants, and resource and awareness development, the Foundation has proven successful in improving the lives of children with pervasive developmental disabilities at little to no cost to clients. The foundation has grown to serve over 400 families annually and is a testament to Tracy's remarkable drive and ambition as well as her undying passion to serve the smallest of us in need.
Among the Foundation's fundraising and increased-community awareness efforts, is its annual walkabout for autism held during the month of September. This year's event will take place on September 20th at the Andrew Brown Park in Coppell, TX. The goal is to, once again, achieve record attendance and fundraising while inspiring all who attend and offering a fun-filled event for the whole family. For more information about Tracy's story, the Foundation and how you, as fellow alumni, can make a donation please visit www.woodallkids.org.
**Tracy is now remarried to Stephen Bender and is the mother of three amazing little girls-- Pierce, Isabella and Riley Woodall. The Bender / Woodall family resides in Coppell, TX. **
By Penny Apollaro '93CC '95SW | September 12, 2008
Columbia University News
Columbia alumni Email For Life!
For the first time, the CAA and  offer alumni free, permanent, Web-based
e-mail. Managed through Google Mail, you can create an email address of your choosing @caa.columbia.edu.? Visit http://alumni.columbia.edu/email to activate your account?or to manage your Email Forwarding preferences.
Meet the new CAA chair, James Harden '78BUS '83PH
At its third annual Worldwide Alumni Leadership Assembly in November, the Columbia Alumni Association Assembly elected James Harden ('78BUS, '83PH) as the second chair of the CAA and bid farewell to inaugural chair, University Trustee Stephen Case '64CC '68LAW. Click here to learn more about Jim and see a slideshow of the 3rd CAA Assembly.
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