JEFF CORWIN

Animal Planet Host and Leading Conservationist

Emmy winner Jeff Corwin has been working for the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems around the world since he was a teenager. Animal Planet audiences best know Corwin as host of The Jeff Corwin Experience, one of the most popular shows on cable television. The series reaches over 13 million viewers in the United States, and is viewed in more than 70 countries worldwide. When not in the field, Corwin lectures on wildlife, ecology, and conservation to audiences across the United States. He has also established an interactive museum and environmental education center called the EcoZone. Based in Norwell, Massachusetts, the town where Corwin spent his childhood, the goal of the EcoZone is to build awareness of the wildlife and ecology unique to the wetlands of southeastern Massachusetts.

October 1, 2008
Wednesday
7:30 PM

Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

Admission to this lecture is free

ISHMAEL BEAH

A LongWay Gone:A Story of Redemption and Hope

Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone on November 23, 1980.When he was eleven, Ishmael’s life, along with the lives of millions of other Sierra Leoneans,was derailed by the outbreak of a brutal civil war.After his parents and two brothers were killed, Ishmael was recruited to fight as a child soldier. He was thirteen. He fought for over two years before he was removed from the army by UNICEF and placed in a rehabilitation home in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.A LongWay Gone, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story.At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.

January 21, 2009
Wednesday
7:30 PM

Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

Admission to this lecture is free

SANDRA STEINGRABER

Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. It was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with newly released data from U.S. cancer registries. Living Downstream won praise from international media, including The Washington Post, the Nation, The Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, PublishersWeekly,The Lancet, and The London Times. Steingraber was named aMs.Magazine Woman of the Year, and later received the Jenifer Altman Foundation’s first annual Altman Award for “the inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate the causes of cancer,” and from the American MedicalWriters Association, theWill Solimene Award for “excellence in medical communication.” The Sierra Club heralded Steingraber as “the new Rachel Carson”, and Carson’s own alma mater, Chatham College, selected Steingraber to receive its biennial Rachel Carson Leadership Award.

April 13, 2009 
Monday
7:30 PM

Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

Admission to this lecture is free