Dr. Zoya Ulberg
3:00pm on April 17, 2001

University of Tennessee Conference Center (4th Floor)
600 Henley Street in Knoxville

There will be a reception following the presentation.

The Joint Institute for Energy and Environment (JIEE), the Waste Management Research and Education Institute (WMREI), and the Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) are co-sponsoring a lecture by a visiting scientist from the Ukraine. The lecture will be held in the University of Tennessee Conference Center (4th Floor) at 600 Henley Street in Knoxville at 3:00pm on April 17, 2001. There will be a reception following the presentation.

Dr. Zoya Ulberg is Professor and Director of the Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She will be delivering two reports. One will be on the public communication about Chernobyl, the disaster consequences: natural, medical, social and financial. This report is intended for a wide audience. The second report will deal with the remediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals and radionuclides.

Her academic education consists of engineering and chemistry degrees from Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1959 and post-graduate work from the Department of Colloid Chemistry at the Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1966. She earned a Doctor of Sciences degree in Chemistry in 1975 from the Institute of Colloid and Water Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine where she specialized in colloid chemistry.

Dr. Ulberg is the author of two USSR Discoveries: "The phenomenon of selective interaction between microorganisms and particles of minerals and metals," and "The phenomenon of diffusiophoresis--movement of colloid particles in a field of electrolyte concentration gradient." She is the author of 250 scientific papers and 4 monographs.

You may park in the new Locust Street Parking Garage across the street from the Conference Center. It is in the block bordered by Locust Street, Union Avenue, Walnut Street, and Clinch Avenue. The entrance to the parking garage is on Walnut Street. From Henley Street you will turn onto Church Street (one way) going toward downtown. Two blocks up you will turn left onto Walnut (one way). Go across Clinch Avenue to about the middle of the next block and turn left into the parking garage. Bring your parking ticket to the Conference Center and you will be issued a parking sticker which entitle you to free parking. Please note that there are several parking garages in the downtown area. We can only validate parking for the Locust Street Garage.

Please contact Jane Johns (phone: 974-3939, e-mail: jjohns1@utk.edu) if you plan to attend.

We look forward to seeing you on April 17 at 3:00pm in the University of Tennessee Conference Center (4th Floor) at 600 Henley Street, Knoxville.

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

A schedule of meetings on DOE issues is posted on our Web site
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