MU Professor Steven Starr to give Noel P. Gist seminar lecture against nuclear war

Steven Starr, program director of the MU Clinical Laboratory Science program and senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, will give a lecture titled “Nuclear weapons still threaten human existence: the long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war” as part of the Noel P. Gist Brown Bag Seminar Series at MU.

Starr worked for 22 years in mid-Missouri clinical laboratories as a technologist in addition to his extensive advocacy work in opposition to nuclear warfare. Starr has published prolifically on the subject of nuclear war prevention and has testified before the U.N. General Assembly on the potential long-term environmental effects of such conflict. He maintains a multi-lingual website, nucleardarkness.org, that features much of the work he has produced as part of a passion that began during his childhood.

The Noel P. Gist Brown Bag Seminar Series occurs weekly at MU. The lunch meetings are named after sociologist Noel P. Gist, who sought to raise awareness of international issues on campus by inviting experts in various academic fields.

Date/Time:  12 to 12:50 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3

Location: Room N52 of Memorial Student Union (campus map)

Cost: Free, and open to the public. Attendees may bring their own lunches to the seminar.

For more information: Contact Rebecca A. O’Neal, executive staff assistant at the MU International Center, via email or at (573) 882-6008.