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CORVALLIS - Mark W. Lusk, the new director of International Education and Outreach at Oregon State University, will give the final lecture in the Pathways to Resilience series sponsored by the OSU Department of Human Development and Family Sciences.

His talk, "An International Look at Street Children," begins at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 3, in the Joyce Powell Leadership Center in OSU's Memorial Union. It is free and open to the public.

Lusk has worked in more than 50 countries on projects sponsored by the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. State Department, and other organizations. He specializes in the study of child welfare in developing nations, especially that of street children, and preventing violence against children.

Those studies have taken him to Brazil, Peru, Columbia and several other nations.

His latest studies have focused on the effects of terrorism on children in Israel and hospital protocols in that nation after a terrorist event.

Lusk has been the director of international education at three major universities, and worked on the staffs of several universities abroad. He has received Fulbright Senior Fellowships to Peru and Brazil and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.