Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will present the 2011 Goff Smith lecture, The Interface of Energy and Geopolitics, at 4:30 p.m., March 30 at Rackham Auditorium.
The Goff Smith Lecture enables the College of Engineering (CoE) to bring to campus individuals of significant stature and give recognition for their contribution to society.
Free tickets for this event are available through the Michigan Union Ticket Office or by calling 734-763-8587.
Rice is a professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University.
From 2005-09, she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States. Prior to serving as America’s chief diplomat, she served as President George W. Bush’s assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security adviser) from 2001-05.
Goff Smith, who spent his entire business career with Amsted Industries of Chicago, received a Bachelor of Science in engineering degree in 1938 and a master’s degree in business administration in 1939 from U-M. He made many contributions to CoE and the university and was recognized with a Sesquicentennial Award in 1967, a Presidential Societies Leadership Medal in 1989 and the CoE Alumni Society Distinguished Service Award in 2000. He died in December 2008.
