Conference Agenda

Eugene Kenaga International DDT Conference Agenda — March 14, 2008
 
8:00 a.m.Registration
  Coffee and Continental Breakfast in Tyler-Van Dusen Rotunda
 
8:30 a.m.Welcome in Tyler-Van Dusen Commons
  Alma College President — Saundra Tracy
  Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force Chair — Jane Keon
  SETAC Representative — Dan Petersen
  ISEE Representative — Tiaan De Jager
 
8:45 a.m.Reproductive and Infant Health and DDT: Current Research and Knowledge  (10 minute summary presentations by presenters)
  Riana Bornman
  Aimin Chen
  Tiaan de Jager
 
9:30 a.m.Comments, Questions and Coffee
 
9:45 a.m.DDT, Cancer, and other Developmental Issues: Current Research and Knowledge (10-minute summary presentations by presenters)
  Barbara Cohn (presented by Eskenazi)
  Brenda Eskenazi
  Suzanne Snedeker
 
10:30 a.m.Comments, Questions and Coffee
 
10:45 a.m.DDT & the Environment, Local Exposures & Malaria: Current Research and Knowledge (10-minute summary presentations by presenters)
  Henk Bouwman
  Diane Henshel
  Darwin Stapleton
 
11:30 a.m.Comments and Questions
 
11:45 a.m.Lunch
  Speaker Amy Dailey “Community Involvement in Public Health”
 
12:45–2:00 p.m. Bus trip to Superfund Sites with presentations by EPA and Michigan DEQ staff
 
2:15–3:00 p.m.Tyler-Van Dusen Commons for Round Table Discussion Topics
  Reproductive & Infant Health and DDT
  DDT, Cancer, and other Developmental Issues
  DDT & the Environment, Local Exposures & Malaria

Presenters will remain at tables; participants will move from table to table.
  a) What we know
  b) What we need to know
  c) What we need to do
  
  1. Research-related policy need
  2. Global health policy needs
  3. Great Lakes policy needs
  4. Interest group and policy towards DDT and/or US and Stockholm Convention
 
3:05–3:50 p.m.Same Round Table Discussion Topics with participants moving tables
 
3:55–4:40 p.m.Same Round Table Discussion Topics with participants moving tables
 
4:45–5:30 p.m.Panel of the Whole
  Recorders present Table Discussions to develop consensus statements (e.g. research needs, health needs, environment needs, and malaria needs)
 
5:30 p.m.Conference Adjourns
 
 
The Eugene Kenaga International DDT Conference is jointly sponsored by the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, the Center for Responsible Leadership and the Public Affairs Institute at Alma College, the Ohio Valley Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).

 

Bob Devaney, a 1939 graduate of Alma College, went on to become known as one of the greatest coaches in collegiate football history. In his 11 years as head coach at Nebraska, Devaney produced 11 winning seasons with two national championships. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. At Alma he played end and was the Scots’ Most Valuable Player in 1938.

 

Graduate Profile

Brandon Edward Miller

Brandon Edward Miller
Graduation: 1997
Major: POE: Foreign Service and International Law

How many people can say they’ve sat as an intern at CNN’s international desk? Or worked as a press aide to Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations?

Served in the Peace Corps for four years in Ethiopia and Madagascar, worked at World Bank in its anti-corruption unit, studied at Harvard and served as a law clerk for a federal judge?

Brandon Edward Miller ’97 can.