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DATE: Thursday, October 17, 1996            TAG: 9610170378
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ACCLAIMED SCIENTIST TO SPEAK AT ODU

Norman Myers, an internationally acclaimed scientist and scholar on global environmental issues, will speak tonight at Old Dominion University. His speech, part of ODU's President's Lecture Series, is free to the public and starts at 8 p.m. in the Mills Godwin Jr. Building auditorium.

The topic of his talk is ``Population, Environment and Development: The Great Challenges of Our Age.''

Myers, a policy adviser to the White House and the U.S. State Department, has written extensively on subjects ranging from global warming to mass extinction of species.

He has received numerous awards, including one from the United Nations, and is the first British scientist to win the Volvo Environment Prize. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

Norman Myers by CNB