CNN’s Cooper to speak on UA campus as part of lecture series
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anderson Cooper, an anchorman for CNN's primetime news lineup, will be featured as part of the University of Arkansas' Distinguished Lecture Series at 8 p.m. March 7.
The event will be at Barnhill Arena. It is free and open to the public.
Cooper anchors "Anderson Cooper 360 "weeknights on the cable network. He is perhaps best known for his reporting from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. He has also anchored CNN's overnight coverage of the war in Iraq, much of the network's live coverage of the Washington, D. C., area sniper story and coverage of the space shuttle Columbia explosion.
Cooper joined CNN in December 2001 and soon after was sent to Afghanistan to report on the U. S. military's Operation Enduring Freedom.
He worked as a correspondent for ABC News and Channel One News before moving to CNN. In 2003, he completed the memoir "Dispatches from the Edge."
Cooper graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
The Distinguished Lecture Series is supported by student activity fees, the Associated Student Government and the University of Arkansas. Past lecturers have included Benazir Bhutto, Ehud Barak, Robert Redford, James Carville and Mary Matalin.
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