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4/6/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
EVENT BEING RESCHEDULED!!!!
SRU EARTH DAY EVENT TO EXAMINE ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFECTS ON LIFE, DEATH,
SEX
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– In celebration of Earth Day, Dr. Devra Davis,
director of the Center for Environmental Oncology and a professor
in the department of epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public
Health at the University of Pittsburgh, will present “How the
Environment Shapes Life, Death and Sex: Lessons from When Smoke Ran
Like Water” at BEING RESCHEDULED on the Slippery Rock
University campus.
The free lecture
will be offered in Room 204 of Vincent Science Hall.
Davis’ book
“When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception
and the Battle Against Pollution,” was a National Book Award
Finalist in 2002. The work describes the impacts of pollution and
toxins on human health and gives examples of efforts by industry
and politicians to discredit the work of scientists trying to
protect health. The title was inspired by the 1948 air pollution
disaster in nearby Donora, Pa., where Davis grew up.
She has a
distinguished history working to protect human health and was
appointed by President Clinton to the Chemical Safety and Hazard
Investigation Board. As the former senior adviser to the assistant
secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human
Services, Davis has counseled leading officials in the U.S., United
Nations, World Health Organization and World Bank. She also was a
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University and Stern
College for 1996-97 and a Scholar-in-Residence and executive
director of the board on environmental studies and toxicology at
the U.S. National Research Council, part of the National Academy of
Science, 1983-93.
Davis holds
her bachelor of science degree in physiological psychology and her
master of arts degree in sociology from the University of
Pittsburgh. She completed her doctorate in science studies at the
University of Chicago, as a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellow and
completed her M.P.H. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins
University, as a senior National Cancer Institute post-doctoral
fellow. She has authored more than 170 publications, in books and
journals ranging from Scientific American to the Journal of the
American Medical Association and the Lancet, and the Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, and has also written for the New York
Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other mass media
outlets.
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