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BY PHILIP MONTGOMERY
Rice News Staff
Jan. 28, 1999

Human population and sustainability is the topic of the seventh annual Rice Environmental Conference, which will be held Feb. 6 at Rice Memorial Center on campus.

The conference, “How Many is Too Many? Human Population and the Sustainability of Our Planet,” is free and open to the Rice community and to the public.

Conference events include keynote speaker Judith Jacobsen, a U.S. delegate to the 1994 United Nations Conference on Population in Cairo, and three panel discussions debating different facets of overpopulation. Panel topics include women and population, religion and population, and population as an environmental issue. The panel on women and population is co-sponsored by the Rice Women’s Conference.

The conference will open with remarks by Nobel laureate and Rice chemist Richard Smalley. The day’s events will also feature a career fair and expo as well as the winners of a student paper competition.

For more information or to register contact student organizers Kathleen Corr at (713) 630-8007, kcorr@rice.edu; or Alex Bain at (713) 630-8128, abain@rice.edu.