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Attention LEJA Alumni | Save the Dates | Q & A with Environmental Summit Keynote Speaker

Attention LEJA Alumni

Lambda Alpha Epsilon is looking for their alumni in an effort to establish an alumni system to help our current members with employment, bring back guest speakers, and have alumni events with our alumni and members. If you are a WIU Lambda Alpha Epsilon alumnus, please contact, Alex at AH-Kulisek@wiu.edu so that we can included you in our alumni database.

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COEHS Week - April 13-17

The College is planning many special events for the week including a panel discussion on lifespan issues, two graduate symposia, the 10th Annual Tech Fest, and an English Language Learners panel. Also planned for the week is a retirement reception, to be held on Thursday, April 16 for Dean Bonnie Smith-Skripps '73 '74 '89. She is retiring after 35 years of service to WIU. We will also honor our 2009 Distinguished Alumnus, kinesiology graduate Joe Decker '98, on Friday April 17 with a fitness bootcamp and a recognition dinner. Click here for detailed information about the week.

RPTA's Professional Development Conference - April 30-May 1

The call for proposals is currently available! Click here for more information.

COEHS at The Art Institute of Chicago

Watch for COEHS staff at the Alumni & Friends Event at The Art Institute of Chicago from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, April 3, 2009. Enjoy a complimentary social and private viewing of the Edvard Munch Special Exhibition. Register with the Alumni Association by e-mailing A-Association@wiu.edu.

Q & A with Environmental Summit Keynote Speaker

Ecologist, author and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health, will serve as the keynote speaker, at the Sixth Annual Western Illinois University Environmental Summit, "Healthy Planet, Healthy People," Wednesday, April 8.

The summit will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and will include environmental-health themed posters, displays and roundtable discussions in the University Union Grand Ballroom. Steingraber, the author of "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment," "Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood" and "Post-Diagnosis," will present "Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food and Water Violate Human Rights and What We Can Do About It" at noon in the Grand Ballroom. She will also speak at 7 p.m. at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA. Both presentations are open free to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

For more information or to get involved, click here or contact Mindy Pheiffer at mj-pheiffer@wiu.edu.

To read more on the Environmental Summit, click here.

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