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Chun was a distinguished and visionary educator. Dai Ho Chun through his estate gift, which established The Dai Ho Chun Endowment for Distinguished Lecturers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Colleges of Arts & Sciences.
#Dr brett walker free#
This free public lecture is made possible by the late Dr. I really liked my GTA but I dont think I spoke to Dr. Walker has concentrated his research at the intersection of human health, environmental change, and the history of scientific ideas to better understand the global challenges that face humanity. Brett Walker is a professor in the History department at Montana State. Brett Walker, former OK-LSAMP Scholar, served as the keynote speaker at the 20th Annual Research Symposium held on September 27, 2014. Brett Walker is a fellowship trained spine surgeon with offices in. His books include Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (2010), Winner of the 2011 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History, The Lost Wolves of Japan (2005), and The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590& ndash 1800 (2001).īorn in Bozeman, Montana, Walker attributes much of his interest in the environment to a childhood spent outdoors, working on a wheat and barley farm in Cascade, Montana, and fishing for trout on the Missouri River. 211 likes 1 talking about this 1 was here. He investigates how nature, in manifestations ranging from infectious disease to nonhuman animals, has imposed its way onto the human past, as well as how humans have sliced, burned, extracted and engineered their needs and desires onto Earth and its living organisms. He received his medical degree from Michigan. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc. View a map and get directions on CareDash. Walker is an orthopedist in Owosso, Michigan and is affiliated with Memorial Healthcare-Owosso. His books explore how humans have altered the environment, or have been altered by the environment, across both historical time and geographic space. Brett Walkers office is located at 1120 West Michigan Street, Cl642, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Walker received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for his project, “The Slow Dying: Asbestos and the Unmaking of the Modern World.” He studies environmental history, the history of human health, and the history of science. The free lecture will take place at the Art Building Auditorium on Tuesday, March 11, at 6 p.m. Walker is coming to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa to give a public lecture titled “An Environmental History of Terrorism: 9/11, World Trade Center Dust, and the Global Nature of New York’s Toxic Bodies.” Walker is a family medicine doctor in Tacoma, Washington and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Parker Adventist Hospital and MultiCare Tacoma General.
