Recently named one of ‘Time’s 100,” EPA’s Lisa Jackson *86 to speak on campus

Prince­ton Engi­neer­ing alumna Lisa Jack­son will be speak­ing on the Prince­ton cam­pus April 28 about the “State of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion in the Nation and the Chal­lenges of the Future.” The talk, which begins at 5 p.m. in the Friend Cen­ter audi­to­rium, is free and open to the public.

This month Jack­son, head of the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, was named to “Time’s 100,” the magazine’s annual list of the most influ­en­tial peo­ple in the world.

“As the U.S. grap­ples with seri­ous energy issues, we need seri­ous lead­ers like Lisa,” writes Steven Chu, sec­re­tary of the depart­ment of energy, in a cita­tion pub­lished by Time. “She under­stands not only the risks we face but also the oppor­tu­ni­ties to cre­ate a new gen­er­a­tion of jobs and to grow the econ­omy while pro­tect­ing pub­lic health and the environment.”

As a grad­u­ate stu­dent in chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing at Prince­ton, Jack­son researched ground­wa­ter con­t­a­m­i­na­tion, work that led her to focus her engi­neer­ing skills on address­ing pol­lu­tion. Jack­son earned her master’s degree from Prince­ton in 1986. Jack­son will also speak this week at She Roars, a con­fer­ence cel­e­brat­ing women at Prince­ton.