| Select Borlaug Dialogue sessions to be streamed live online |
 Due to overwhelming demand, registration for next week's Borlaug Dialogue has been closed. However, you can still catch parts of the symposium online thanks to the Des Moines Register. The tentative streaming schedule can be found here.
Participants will also be tweeting the 2009 World Food Prize events live. You can follow the conversation at twitter.com/worldfoodprize or join in at #foodprize. |
| Gebisa Ejeta to receive $250,000 World Food Prize on October 15 at Iowa State Capitol |
 Purdue professor and Ethiopia native Gebisa Ejeta will be presented the $250,000 World Food Prize on October 15 at the Iowa State Capitol.
The award ceremony will feature a special tribute to Norman Borlaug as well as musical performances in honor of Dr. Ejeta. The World Food Prize caps an amazing personal journey for Dr. Ejeta, which you can read about here.
Iowa Public Television will broadcast the ceremony live across the state beginning at 7:00 p.m. |
| World Food Prize Foundation to dedicate Hall of Laureates in honor of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug |
The World Food Prize Foundation has assumed ownership of the former Des Moines Public Library building, and construction has begun to convert the building into the Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates.
On Wednesday, October 14, the World Food Prize will host a celebration of Dr. Borlaug's life for invited guests. A part of this memorial will be the formal dedication of the building as the Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates - the future home of the World Food Prize, the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium, the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute, and other programs created and inspired by Dr. Borlaug. View a short video about the Hall of Laureates here. |
| USDA to hold listening session at Iowa Hunger Summit |
 USDA has announced that it will be holding a public listening session at the Iowa Hunger Summit on Tuesday, October 13, as it seeks to follow up on President Obama's pledge to end childhood hunger in the United States by 2015. The Hunger Summit will be hosting the first such event in Iowa; other listening sessions are taking place across the country.
There is still time to register to participate in the Iowa Hunger Summit - a free, all-day event at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown. More information here. |
| Borlaug-Ruan Intern awards announced |
 For the outstanding work they each conducted during their 2008 Borlaug-Ruan International Internship experiences, Tim Sprick of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Lisa Cathelyn of Geneseo, Illinois, have been named the 2009 John Chrystal and Ahmanson Award recipients.
Each year, these awards recognize two alumni of the World Food Prize's eight-week agricultural-research summer internships offered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Tim and Lisa will be jointly honored as part of the World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony on Thursday, October 15. More information on the Borlaug-Ruan Internship is available here. |
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| Remembering World Food Prize Founder Norman Borlaug |
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2009 World Food Prize events to be held in the shadow of founder's death
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the man who "saved more lives than any other person who has ever lived," died September 12 at the age of 95.
Dr. Borlaug was believed to have saved more than a billion lives through his breakthrough work in agriculture. In 1970 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for averting massive famine by starting the "Green Revolution," the greatest period of food production in human history.
In 1986, he founded the World Food Prize to recognize life-saving achievements that increase the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.
Since his death, tributes to Dr. Borlaug have poured in from around the world.
Texas A&M University, where Dr. Borlaug taught since 1984, held a memorial service for Dr. Borlaug on October 6 and has set up a website for memorials and condolences. |
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