Panel explores Katrina impact, Sept. 21

Four Princeton faculty members will examine the political, social and environmental impact of Hurricane Katrina in a panel discussion set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in McCosh 10.

The participants will be: Larry Bartels, the Donald Stokes Professor in Public and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics; Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies; Eddie Glaude Jr., an associate professor of religion and acting director of the Program in African-American Studies; and James Smith, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the Program in Geological Engineering and director of the Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources.

The event is sponsored by the College Democrats, College Republicans, Princeton Progressive Review, American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.