Dialogue with Dan Egan: THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT: PHOSPHORUS AND A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE

https://www.purdue.edu/academics/ogsps/ese/symposium/keynote.html

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Fowler Hall, Stewart Center

Refreshments, 6:00-7:00 PM EST

Dialogue with Dan Egan, 7:00-8:00 PM EST

Book Signing to Follow, 8:00-9:00 PM EST

Both The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance and The Death and Life of the Great Lakes will be available for purchase at the event by a local bookstore.

 Dan Egan for many years covered the Great Lakes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Now he writes occasional long-form pieces about climate change for national media outlets, including the New York Times, and is a senior water policy fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences. He is the author of THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT: PHOSPHORUS AND A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE and the New York Times best seller THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT LAKES. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he has won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, John B. Oakes Award, AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and children.

Linda S. Lee

915 Mitch Daniels Blvd, B480 Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086; lslee@purdue.edu

Purdue University Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Agronomy

Environmental Ecological Engineering

COA Graduate Education and Research, Asst. Dean

Interdisciplinary Ecological Science & Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program, Program Head, www.purdue.edu/ese