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Lecture Series Planned to Celebrate World Environmental Day

May 21, 2021

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MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – To commemorate World Environmental Day Saturday, June 5, three Western Illinois University professors will speak during a virtual event, from 10 a.m.-noon, themed "Ecosystem Restoration."

The lecture series, organized by WIU biology graduate student Oladele Dickson Owasoyo, of Nigeria, will take place over Zoom and can be joined at wiu.zoom.us/j/98840645382.

The event is divided into three sections, including:

• WIU English Professor William Knox will deliver "How Combating Climate Change Can Help Restore the Ecosystem."

• WIU Associate Professor of Agriculture Joel Gruver will deliver "How Ecosystem Restoration Can Help Address Climate Change."

• WIU Anthropology Professor Heather McIlvaine-Newsdad will deliver "How Ecosystem Restoration Will Have a Positive Effect on Social Well-Being, Socio-Economic Development and some United National SDGs."

For more information on the event, email Owasoyo at od-owasoyo@wiu.edu.


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