Pioneer in population, resources, and environmental issues to speak at Bradley

Peoria, Illinois . . . April 3, 2003 . . . Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich, a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues of population, resources, and the environment as matters of public policy will speak at Bradley University on April 24. He will give a scientific talk at noon in Olin Hall room 149 entitled "Checkerspots: a model system in population biology," and a public lecture at 7 p.m. in the Michel Student Center ballroom entitled "Population, consumption, power, and environmental ethics."

The lectures, sponsored by the Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the College of Education and Health Sciences, and the departments of biology, chemistry, physical therapy, and physics, are free and open to the public.

Dr. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University. Co-founder with Peter H. Raven of the field of coevolution, he has pursued long-term studies of the structure, dynamics, and genetics of natural butterfly populations.

He is the author of a number of books and articles including Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank; Human Natures: Genes, Culture, and the Human Prospect; A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma; Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.

Professor Ehrlich is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Ehrlich has received several honorary degrees and many awards including the John Muir Award of the Sierra Club, the Gold Medal Award of the World Wildlife Fund International, the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (given in lieu of a Nobel Prize in areas where the Nobel is not given), the United Nations' Sasakawa Environment Prize, the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.