She received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master’s degree in English from Illinois State University. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. Her presentation at Drake is titled “Living Downstream, an Evening with Sandra Steingraber,” and is sponsored by Drake’s Environmental Science and Policy Program, Drake’s Biology Department and the Iowa Environmental Council. Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. She and her husband Jeff de Castro live in a 1,000-square-foot house with a push mower, a clothesline, a vegetable garden and two beloved children. Her book Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at. Steingraber is currently a columnist for Orion magazine and a scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., is an expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. Magazine Woman of the Year, the Jenifer Altman Foundation’s first annual Altman Award for the “inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate the causes of cancer, the Rachel Carson Leadership Award from Chatham College, a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund and the Environmental Health Champion Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles. Steingraber has received many honors and awards including Ms. The book, “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment,” discusses the link between environmental links to cancer and human health. in Bulldog Theatre located in lower Olmsted Center, 2875 University Ave. Sandra Steingraber wrote her book over 35 years after 'Silent Spring' and having the benefit of a huge amount of accumulated evidence of chemical side-effects and personal experience with the serious health problems caused by chemical contamination of our environment, she has put together a powerful indictment of the irresponsibility of industry and government alike in their continuing agenda. Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author and cancer survivor, will be visiting Drake University for a viewing and public discussion of “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” on Wednesday, Oct.

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