Events / “Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”
Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University

“Models of Harm for Radiation Effects in the Nuclear Age”

May 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

112 Lillis Hall, 955 E. 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 07403

Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University.

Dr. Hamblin is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects.

This is the third event in the series Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan. For more information contact: Rachel DiNitto rdinitto@uoregon.edu

Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, School of Global Studies & Languages, and Oregon Humanities Center