Announcement: Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Lecture

Hugh Parmer, president of the American Refugee Committee, will present a lecture, titled "Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur: Perspectives from the Field," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26. Prior to moving to Minnesota, Parmer worked for the Clinton administration as assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Humanitarian Response, where he led major U.S. humanitarian relief operations required by the Kosovo war, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua, and famine relief in Ethiopia and Eritrea.