The Wolfe Institute
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
In cooperation with the Environmental Studies Program
Career Opportunities in
Environmental Studies
M.C. Escher's "Day and Night" © 1999 Cordon
Art B.V. - Baarn - Holland. All rights reserved.
9:25-9:40 am: Opening
Greetings - Vernon E. Lattin, President- Brooklyn College
Introduction - Professor Micha Tomkiewicz, Director,
Environmental Studies Program
9:40-10:40 am: Measuring & Evaluating the Environment
& its Effects on Health
Moderator, Erika Friedmann, Professor of Health and
Nutrition Sciences
Jean Grassman, Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences
Kenneth Acks, Editor and Publisher, Environmental Damage
Valuation and Cost-Benefit News
10:50-12:00 pm: Environmental Policy, Activism and
Journalism
Moderator, Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology
David Sive, Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University
School of Law
Andrew Revkin, Journalist, New York Times
Peggy Shepard, Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental
Action
12:15-1:00 pm: Keynote Speaker
Fernando Ferrer, Bronx Borough President
Thursday, March 25, 1999
9:25 to 1:00 p.m.
Penthouse
Brooklyn College Student Center
For information: (718) 951-5847