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Award-winning author and environmentalist to talk about "Man, Nature and Climate Change" at Connecticut College on Sept. 20

September 10, 2007

NEW LONDON, Conn. - She has traveled from Alaska to Greenland to research the scientific and political issues behind global warming, and now Elizabeth Kolbert is coming to Connecticut College to share her behind-the-scenes knowledge of the national and environmental phenomenon.

Kolbert will speak at 8 p.m. on Sept. 20 in Ernst Common Room, Blaustein Humanities Center, at Connecticut College. This event is free and open to the public.

After completing her research, which included numerous interviews with leading scientists, Kolbert wrote a three-part series for "The New Yorker," which won the 2005 National Magazine Award in the Public Interest category. She then published "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change," an in-depth look at the science, politics and human story of global warming. The book was chosen as one of 2006´s 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.

Kolbert´s lecture is sponsored by the Sound Lab Foundation and Friends of the Connecticut College Library.

Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 43 states and 45 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.

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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu