Sewell Distinguished Lecture

Past Honorees

2011: Dr. Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley (Cooking and Climate: The Unfinished Health Agenda of Incomplete Combustion)

2010: Dr. Howard Frumkin, Dean University of Washington School of Public Health (Climate Change and Public Health)

2009: Dr. James Hansen, Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Climate Threat to the Planet: Implications for Energy Policy and Intergenerational Justice)

2008: Dr. William E. Rees, Professor of UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (Our Ecological Footprint)

2007: Dr. Wallace Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (What Should we do about Fossil Fuel CO2)

2005: Dr. Peter Singer, Professor or Bioethics, Princeton University (The Ethics of What We Eat; 2005)

2004: Dr. Mario Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995, MIT (Impact of Human Activities on our Atmosphere)

2003: Dr. Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology, Harvard University (Saving the Last Life, and Why it Matters)

2002: Dr. George Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center (Global Climate Change)

2001: Ms. Carol Browner, a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute and previously the Director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection and Public Health: Meeting the Challenge of the 21st Century)

2000: Dr. J. Carl Barrett, Director of the Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute (New Approaches to the Study of Environmental Causes of Disease)

1999: Dr. Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills, The University of Virginia (The Role of the Indoor Environment in the Persistent Increase in Asthma)

1998 Dr. Tony McMichael (Environmental Sciences from Hazard to Habitat)

1997: Dr. Story Musgrave (Remote Global Sensing)

1996: Dr. Rita Colwell (Cholera)

1995: Dr. Rob Socolow of Princeton University (Energy)

1994: Dr. Gene Likens (Acid Rain)