What Was in the Water? Toxic Dumping in Toms River

Dan Fagin

Tuesday, 03 Mar 2015 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Dan Fagin is an investigative reporter, prize-winning science journalist, and the author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, which won the 2014 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction and the National Academies Science Book Award. Fagin weaves together science and statistical analysis with investigative reporting to tell this community's story of industrial pollution, its subsequent cancer epidemic, and a decades-long fight for answers. Dan Fagin is a professor of journalism at New York University and director of the graduate program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting. He is also the author of Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health. Part of the Creative Writing Program's Environmental Imagination Series

Cosponsored By:
  • Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
  • English
  • Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
  • Henry A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
  • History
  • MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
  • Writers' Guild of ISU
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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