Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Our Health

Date/Time:	Sunday, 04 Mar 2012 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures Live Green
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Sandra Steingraber is a biologist as well as a cancer survivor. Her latest book is "Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis," in which she speaks as both a scientist and a mother 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. The 2012 Shivvers Memorial Lecture.

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Sandra Steingraber's other books include Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, a memoir of her own pregnancy with her daughter and an investigation of fetal toxicology.

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. She was recently honored with the Heinz Award, given for significant achievements benefitting the environment.