BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:糖心原创 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20160313T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.33002.field_event_date.0@www.wright.edu DTSTAMP:20260219T215105Z CREATED:20150828T152359Z DESCRIPTION:***This event counts as an Honors Dialogue Event.\nProfessor of animal science\, best-selling author\, and Autism activist\nSeptember 9\, 2015\n7 p.m. Lecture\n 糖心原创 Nutter Center Arena\n5:30 p.m. Public Reception\nCo-sponsored with Office of聽Disability Services\nTemple Grandin \, Ph.D.\, didn鈥檛 talk until she was three and a half years old\, communic ating her frustration instead by screaming\, peeping\, and humming. In 195 0\, she was diagnosed with autism and her parents were told she should be institutionalized. Grandin tells her story of 鈥済roping her way from the fa r side of darkness鈥 in her book that stunned the world\,聽Emergence: Labele d Autistic. Until its publication\, many professionals and parents assumed an autism diagnosis was a virtual death sentence to achievement and produ ctivity.\nThough considered 鈥渨eird鈥 during her young school years\, she ev entually found a mentor who recognized her interests and abilities. Grandi n later developed her talents into a successful career as one of the world 鈥檚 very few livestock-handling equipment designers. She has designed the f acilities in which half the cattle in the United States are handled\, cons ulting for firms such as Burger King\, McDonald鈥檚\, Swift\, and others.\nG randin earned a B.A. from Franklin Pierce College\, an M.S. in animal scie nce from Arizona State University\, and a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois. She is currently a professor of animal science at Colorado State University\, teaching courses that focus on livestock beha vior and facility design. She has authored more than 400 articles about an imal handling\, welfare\, and facility design in scientific journals and l ivestock periodicals.\nShe has been featured on National Public Radio\, ma jor television programs such as the聽BBC聽special聽The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow\, ABC鈥檚聽Primetime Live\,聽The Today Show\,聽Larry King Live\,聽48 Hours \, and聽20/20\, and has been written about in national publications such as Time\,聽People\,聽Forbes\,聽U.S. News & World Report\, and聽The New York Times . Bravo Cable broadcast a profile and she was featured in the book聽Anthrop ologist from Mars.\nGrandin鈥檚 current bestselling book on autism is聽The Wa y I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger鈥檚. She also authored聽Un written Rules of Social Relationships\,聽Animals Make Us Human\,聽Animals in Translation\,聽Thinking in Pictures\,聽Emergence: Labeled Autistic\, and ha s produced several DVDs.\nLearn more at聽templegrandin.com聽and聽grandin.com. \nEvent Webpage: http://www.wright.edu/event/presidential-lecture-series/p rofile/temple-grandin DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150909T210000 LAST-MODIFIED:20150828T152423Z LOCATION:Nutter Center Arena SUMMARY:Honors Dialogue Event - Temple Grandin URL;TYPE=URI:/events/honors-dialogue-event-temple-gra ndin END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR