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Environmental Justice as a "Human Rights" Struggle in the 21st Century
January 18, 2011
Public Lecture by Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington For more than three decades, environmental grassroots activists and scholars alike framed environmental justice as a continuation of the civil rights struggle that began in the first half of the 20th century and centered around economic and political equity. The new sciences of environmental epidemiology and toxicology that emerged in the latter half of the 20th century (and continue today), however, have shown that EJ issues are tied to both long-term and short-term impairment of the human body, even down to the DNA levels. Aren't all humans entitled to a future that leaves them and their families biologically and genetically intact for generations to come as a basic human right? Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington is an interdisciplinary-trained scholar in engineering (MS Systems Engineering), history of science, technology and the environment (Ph.D.), and natural health/medicine (ND). She has been involved in the environmental field for over 25 years and her doctoral, as well as her ongoing research efforts, have been deeply influenced by her experiences as a corporate/government environmental engineer, environmental activist , and as a professor developing and teaching environmentally-focused Science Technology and Society courses for non-science students.
Pruyne Lecture Hall in Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
7:00 pm

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Grad School Info session: Architecture and Science and Technology Studies: RPI
January 31, 2011
Take a moment to meet Christina Murray from Admissions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and find out more about graduate study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You’re likely familiar with Rensselaer, but perhaps not as familiar with their professional and research-based architecture programs and Science and Technology Studies (STS) programs. Meet her at the Fair or contact her to meet earlier in the day. Contact Christina Murray, Associate Director, Office of Graduate Admissions, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: email:murrac3@rpi.edu
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Campus Center Science and Tech Fair
3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Lecture: Molecular Ecology of Plant Defense, Plasticity in an Unpredictable and Changing World
January 31, 2011
Please join us for a talk with Plant Physiological Ecology candidate Christopher Frost of the University of Georgia. Refreshments will be served in McConnell Foyer from 4:00 to 4:30.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Film: Blue Gold: World Water Wars
January 31, 2011
Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?
Dewey Common Room
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
January 26, 2011
Book discussion group in preparation for author Barry Sanders' February 9 Smith College lecture. Join the APJ War & Environment Committee to discuss this extensively-documented exposé on the price our earth is paying for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Here's the awful truth: even if every person, every automobile, and every factory suddenly emitted zero emissions, the earth would still be headed, head first and at full speed, toward total disaster for one major reason. The military produces enough greenhouse gases, by itself, to place the entire globe, with all its inhabitants large and small, in the most immanent danger of extinction." —from the Introduction
Bodman Lounge, Helen Hills Hills Chapel
7:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Anticipating the Future by Acting in the Present:
January 31, 2011
Climate Change and Women's Bodies at the Science-Policy Interface, a talk by Jade Sasser, Phd Candidate, University of California-Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
Campus Center 917, UMass
5:00 pm