U-M Alumna Sandra Steingraber, author of "Living Downstream", will receive an Athena Award and will give a public lecture. Dr. Sandra Steingraber will discuss her highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment. The book was recently adapted to a movie which she will show clips from during her discussion. She presents cancer as a human rights issue, and was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with newly released data from U.S. cancer registries. Living Downstream won praise from international media, including The Washington Post, the Nation, The Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times. In 1997, Steingraber was named a Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year. She is in Ann Arbor receiving the Athena Award from the Alumnae Council of the University of Michigan.
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