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Friends Fall Lecture: "Cyanide and Cocktails" by Deborah Blum
Posted 9/15/2011
MADISON, Wis. – Professor Deborah Blum of the UW–Madison School of Journalism will give the Friends of the Libraries’ Fall Lecture on September 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Memorial Library Room 126.
Blum is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Poisoner's Handbook. She will tell the story of how a pair of scientists in Prohibition-era New York City tackled murderers, big corporations, and the U.S. government in their determination to catch killers, solve chemical mysteries, and build a new science of toxicology. Their work ushered in the CSI-forensics era that is seen today and changed the way chemistry is viewed in our modern culture. Blum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist, is the author of four previous books, a past president of the National Association of Science Writers, and a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Blum’s lecture on science and crime provides an excellent kickoff to the Wisconsin Science Festival, held September 22–25 in Madison.
Listen to Dr. Blum discuss The Poisoner’s Handbook on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday (April 2010).
