Environmental Health Sciences 
On March 23, 2012, please join the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences faculty, students and special guests for:
Our Planet, Our Future: 125 Years of Environmental Health at Michigan
 A one-day educational and celebratory event in honor of its 125th anniversary. The program will feature morning and afternoon skill-building sessions, cutting-edge presentations and networking opportunities, with a keynote presentation by award-winning journalist, Richard Harris, science reporter for NPR's newsmagazines, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Event schedule
For the first time in the history of the University of Michigan Environmental Health Sciences Department, all 3000 alumni are being invited to join the EHS faculty, students and selected guests for a one-day educational and celebratory event. The program will feature a keynote presentation on science and the public by Richard Harris, the award-winning science journalist for National Public Radio, and include morning and afternoon skill-building sessions, cutting-edge presentations, and networking opportunities.
Attendees can sign up for workshops on subjects related to environmental health science including communicating complex science to non-specialists using blogs and other social media; using environmental health training to meet corporate sustainability needs and responsibilities; and the latest approaches to health care cost containment by health promotion through diet, exercise and other behaviors. Brief multi-media presentations will be given by UM EHS faculty on the department’s latest outstanding science. Finally, the evening will conclude with a dinner celebrating the 125th anniversary of the department’s history, dating back to the establishment of the first Professorship of Hygiene and the first Hygiene Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1886-1889.
This event marks a vital step in the continued development of a robust alumni, student and faculty network that will provide on-going access to a rich array of state-of-the-art science, job and internship opportunities, and alumni mentoring that our UM EHS community represents.
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