Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A former U.S. State Department official and Washington, D.C.-based authority on international security strategies speaks next week at Mississippi State during a two-day visit to the university and Jackson.
"A History of Missile Defense and Current Threats from Ballistic Missiles" will be the topic of Kim R. Holmes's address at a public program to begin at 3:30 p.m. Thursday [Nov. 12] in McCool Hall's Taylor Auditorium. His campus presentation includes an approximately half-hour video titled "Protecting America in the New Missile Age."
The former assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the George W. Bush administration, Holmes comes to the Magnolia State as an invited guest of MSU's Janos Radvanyi Chair for International Security Studies.
In the capital city Friday [the 13th], he addresses a luncheon of the Executive Lecture Forum. That invitation-only program takes place at the Fairview Inn.
While on the MSU campus, Holmes is scheduled to meet with research leaders and tour the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. In Jackson, he also will make a presentation to members of the Mississippi National Guard and other state-based security organizations.
For more biographical information on Holmes, visit www.msstate.edu/chair/radvanyi/upcoming.html.
JACKSON NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: While the 11:45 a.m. ELF luncheon at the Fairview Inn is not a public event, interested members of the news media are welcomed to attend. To ensure adequate seating, contact Tan Tsai of the CISS Office at 662-325-4062 or 325-8406; or tsai@research.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.