The Fracking of Rachel Carson: Rescheduled for next month

This is to let you know that the lecture by Dr. Sandra Steingraber
originally scheduled for tomorrow has been rescheduled due to the snow
storm expected to hit our region tonight and tomorrow. Her talk will now
take place on Earth Day, April 22, at 4 pm.

*RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER*

New date: Monday, April 22 at 4pm
Proscenium Theater, Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Fracking of Rachel Carson: Silent Spring in an Age of Environmental
Crisis**

*Sandra Steingraber,* Professor of Education, Stanford University

A cancer survivor, Dr. Sandra Steingraber has written extensively on the
intersection of the environment and public health. She will discuss what we
have learned, and failed to learn, in the 50 years since Rachel Carson's
publication of  Silent Spring , and will examine the threat to public
health that fracking poses.

*Korenman Lecture, *sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women Studies
with support from the Department of American Studies, the College of Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences, the Dresher Center for the Humanities,
Geography and Environmental Systems, Office of the Provost, Social Sciences
Forum, and Women in Science and Engineering

Delana Gregg
UMBC Social Sciences Forum

http://www.umbc.edu/socsforum/