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 The interdisciplinary course, "Mind and Memory," conceived by Professor Emeritus James McConkey and first taught by him in 1996, has attracted a wide community on both sides of the podium. The weekly lectures by invited speakers cover areas of study at Cornell from prosthetic knees to snakes, from architectural design to music composition. On occasion, a speaker bridges the chasm between the arts and the sciences. Sandra Steingraber, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell's Center for the Environment, poet, and ecologist, was such a speaker. Steingraber told a compelling story—one that links pollutants and cancer.
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