SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LECTURE TO TAKE AN ECOLOGICAL LOOK AT CANCER

February 21, 2000

Ecologist, author and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber will present a lecture, "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment," at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 2, in the Cullen Auditorium on the Southwestern University campus. The event is free and open to the public and is part of the Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture Series.

The highly acclaimed author of the book "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment," Steingraber was the first to couple data on toxic releases with newly released data from U.S. cancer registries. She was recently appointed to serve on President Clinton's National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 1997, Steingraber was named one of Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year. She is currently on the faculty at Cornell University's Center for the Environment in Ithaca, NY.

The Jessie Daniel Ames Lecture Series is an annual event which brings to Southwestern prominent speakers who address timely and provocative issues.

Jessie Daniel Ames (1883-1972) was a noted women's suffragist and social reformer who had important ties to Williamson County. She accepted leadership roles in several statewide organizations, including the Texas League of Women Voters, the Texas Committee on Prisons and Prison Reform, and the state affiliate of the American Association of University Women. She was a delegate-at-large to the 1920 and 1924 Democratic National Conventions.

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