Science and Environmental Decision Making: from the Lab to the White House and Beyond
Speaker:
Rosina Bierbaum
07 Mar 2006
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Rosina Bierbaum was acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the President in the Clinton White House. As the Administration's senior scientific advisor on environmental research and development, she provided scientific input and guidance on global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, ecosystem management, endocrine disruptors, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and energy research and development. She is now Professor and Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.