Gwyneth Cravens
Gwyneth Cravens, an American author and journalist who is best known for her writings on nuclear power as a safe and reliable alternative energy source and as an essential preventive of global warming, will present a lecture titled 鈥淐an We Save the World with Nuclear Energy?" at 4 p.m. Tuesday (Oct 6) at Washington Hall Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Cravens is the author of 鈥溾�� (2002) and 鈥溾�� (2007). She also has written numerous articles and given countless talks on nuclear energy, emphasizing the need for environmental and technical communities to work together to reduce the anthropogenic causes of catastrophic climate change.
Cravens鈥� talk will be followed by a panel discussion with University of Notre Dame faculty experts , The Henry J. Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, concurrent professor in chemistry and biochemistry, director of and director of the Energy Frontier Research Center on the materials science of actinides; and , professor of philosophy and director of the .
This event is funded by the IBM Women鈥檚 Lecture Series and is jointly sponsored by ND Energy; the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; and the . Cravens鈥� appearance is part of . More information on Energy Week can be found .