David O. Carpenter will deliver the President's Sustainability Lecture on Oct. 4 in Newton Hall 202 at SUNY Geneseo.
A leader in public health will examine the impact of chemicals on our future in this year’s President’s 2017 Sustainability Lecture.
David O. Carpenter will deliver “Is the Human Race Sustainable After the Age of Chemicals?” on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 2:30 p.m. in Newton Hall, Room 202, on the Geneseo campus. It is free and open to the public.
The lecture is part of the college’s activities for Sustainability Month, in October.
Carpenter is a public health physician who serves as director of the Institute for Health and the Environment, a collaborating center of the World Health Organization. He is a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Albany's School of Public Health. He previously served as director of the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health and as dean of the University of Albany School of Public Health.
Carpenter received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has authored more than 370 peer-reviewed publications, six books and 50 reviews and book chapters.
Carpenter’s expertise and focus on the intersection of sustainability and health is a topic of interest to the campus community, said Margaret Reitz, co-chair of Geneseo’s President’s Commission on Sustainability and assistant director of student life for educational initiatives at Geneseo.
Last year, Cornell University Professor Tony Ingraffea spoke about the need for renewable energy. Ingraffea is a revered scientist in the field of complex fracturing processes and has been a principal investigator for projects led by NASA, Kodak, and many others.