Coastal Carolina University Professor Pamela Martin, recipient of this year's HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecturer Award, will speak on the topic "Confronting Crisis: The Politics of Sustainability in the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands" on Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in the James J. Johnson Auditorium in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration.

The award is presented each year to a CCU faculty member who demonstrates outstanding abilities as a teacher, scholar and communicator. The recipient of the honor delivers a lecture on an original topic drawn from his or her area of expertise. Martin is the 19th recipient of the award.

Martin joined CCU's Department of Politics and Geography in 1999, focusing her research activities in the areas of sustainability and energy. She has worked closely on international collaborations with Ecuador and has written extensively about oil extraction in the Amazon and on the Galapagos Islands. She has directed CCU's Model U.N. Team for 12 years and co-authored a textbook with former HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Richard Oliver Collin.

Currently, she is beginning a new sustainable development program at the University in which students produce digital case studies of local sustainability issues and challenges. Martin enjoys working directly with students and engaging them in real world activities. Combining her scholarly work with her classroom teaching has been her passion at CCU for the past 15 years.

The Wall College is located at 119 Chanticleer Drive on the Conway campus. For more information, call Susan Talbot at 843-349-2086.