Snedden Lecture focuses on climate change

October 28, 2019

University Relations

Lois Parshley, the 2019-2020 UA Snedden Chair of Journalism, will offer a free public lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. called "Cold Comfort: An Uncomfortable Conversation about Change," in the Murie Building auditorium on West Ridge.

Parshley is an award-winning investigative long-form writer and photographer. She began her career in Washington, D.C., where she worked at The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, and then in New York, as an editor in the features well at Popular Science. As an independent reporter, she has traveled the world covering the intersection of science and geopolitics. A National Geographic Young Explorer and a former Knight-Wallace Fellow, her reporting is wide-ranging, from covering Ebola in West Africa to social unrest in Venezuela. Her work has been published at the New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Granta, Newsweek, Outside, Wired, The Washington Post and NPR, among others. She was awarded a Mirror Award and the Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine in 2018. See more of her work at www.loisparshley.com, or on Twitter and Instagram @loisparshley.

For more information email Brian O'Donoghue at bpodonoghue@alaska.edu.