Snedden Lecture focuses on climate change
October 28, 2019
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.