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Mark Mills, an expert in emerging technologies and coauthor of "The Bottomless Well," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the Mitchell Auditorium on the St. Scholastica campus.

His free talk, "Bottomless Wells and Unlimited Energy," is the third in the College's Alworth Peace and Justice Lecture Series for 2007-2008. The series, entitled "Energy Futures," examines energy scenarios for the near and distant futures.

A reception will be held after Mills' lecture. There is no charge for either event.

Mills is cofounder and chairman of the board of ICx Technologies Inc., which develops and sells new and emerging technologies for homeland security and force protection.

He is also co-founding partner in the tech venture fund Digital Power Capital. He has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The New York Times. as well as in numerous professional publications. He coauthored with Peter Huber "The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy."

He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office under President Reagan, the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Department of Energy and a number of federal research laboratories.

During the 1970s, Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits. He also worked in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents.

The event is funded by the Lee and Rose Warner Foundation, the Global Awareness Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation, the A.H. Zeppa Family Foundation and Reader Weekly.

The Alworth Center for the Study of Peace and Justice seeks to bridge social and political barriers to bring together people of all ages and philosophies to work toward the common goals of peace and justice.

For more information contact Tom Morgan at (218) 723-6442 or tmorgan@css.edu, or see www.css.edu/peaceandjustice.xml

Additional lectures in the series:
Both lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Auditorium.

Wednesday, Feb. 20
"Surviving the Coming Catastrophes" with James Kunstler