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UW-Madison News Release--Former NSF Leader to Speak

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9/27/05

CONTACT: Claus Moberg, ccmoberg@students.wisc.edu

FORMER NSF DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT UW-MADISON

MADISON - Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak on "Water Pollution and Human Health" at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in a free public lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union.

Colwell headed the NSF from 1998-2004. The government-funded foundation's $5.5 billion annual budget provides competitive grants that account for about 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. The NSF awards about 10,000 new grants each year.

Colwell now chairs Canon US Life Sciences, Inc., and is a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland and at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Her interdisciplinary expertise bridges environmental science and medical epidemiology. Known for her landmark discovery of the role of marine plankton as reservoirs of Vidrio cholerae, the agent of epidemic cholera, she is developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing worlds.

Colwell's appearance here is the first of six Roy F. Weston Global Distinguished Sustainability Lectures planned at UW-Madison through next spring. Weston, an alumnus of UW-Madison, is the founder of Weston Solutions, Inc., an international environmental and redevelopment firm.

The Weston lecture series is sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies), the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the Global Environmental Studies Research Circle.

For more information about the series, visit www.sage.wisc.edu/pages/news.html or contact the series coordinator, Claus Moberg, ccmoberg@students.wisc.edu.
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- Tom Sinclair, (608) 263-5599



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