Environmental symposium scheduled for Nov. 16 | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Environmental symposium scheduled for Nov. 16 Environmental symposium scheduled for Nov. 16 Published: November 13, 2006 Author: William G. Gilroy The fifth annual Symposium on Notre Dame Environmental Education and Research (NDEER) will be held Thursday (Nov. 16) from8:30 a.m.to4 p.m.in the McKenna Hall auditorium. TitledForging Integrative Solutions: Challenges in Disease, Water Quality and Pollution,the symposium is sponsored by Notre Dames Center for Aquatic Conservation, the GLOBES program, and the Graduate Schools Office of Research. The symposiums morning plenary session, which is free and open to the public, will feature guest speakers Austin Demby, director of the Center for Disease Controls Global AIDS Program in Malawi, southern Africa; Douglass Rohrman, an environmental lawyer with the Chicago firm of Lord, Bissell and Brook; and Peter Annin, former Newsweek journalist and author ofThe Great Lakes Water Wars. After the plenary session, faculty and postdoctoral and graduate students from all disciplines will have the opportunity to participate in faculty-moderated interdisciplinary sessions that will examine how research at Notre Dame can best inform society about these environmental challenges. More information about the symposium can be found at: www.nd.edu/~ndeer . TopicID: 20102 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn