Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Our Health: 2012 Shivvers Memorial Lecture: Sandra Steingraber
Date: Sunday, March 4th, 2012 
Start: 7:00 pm
Location: Sun Room, ISU Memorial Union, Ames
Contact: Leopold Center, (515) 294-3711, leocenter@iastate.edu
Sandra Steingraber is an acclaimed ecologist, author and cancer survivor who explores the links between human rights and the environment. Her latest book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in An Age of Environmental Crisis, is a personal memoir about the joys of bringing up her son while searching for ways to shield him -- and all children -- in a world facing climate change and increased environmental pollution.
Steingraber recently was honored with the Heinz Award, given for significant achievements benefitting the environment. She is scholar-in-residence in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Ithaca College and has a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Michigan.
Her other books include Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood.
Related information
Llisten to lecture NOTE: This mp3 file is linked from the ISU Lectures website
Newsletter article - Spring 2012
Read guest essay, written by Fred Kirschenmann and Kamyar Enshayan, about Steingraber's work that was published in the Des Moines Register, March 3, 2012.
More about the Shivvers Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Leopold Center, UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education and the ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture |
Ames, Iowa 50011 |
(515) 294-3711 |
leocenter@iastate.edu