Lecture Series Planned to Celebrate World Environmental Day
MACOMB/Moline, IL – To commemorate World Environmental Day Saturday, June 5, three Western Illinois University professors will 
speak during a virtual event, from 10 a.m.-noon, themed “Ecosystem Restoration.”
The lecture series, organized by WIU biology graduate student Oladele Dickson Owasoyo, of Nigeria, will take place over Zoom and can be joined at wiu.zoom.us/j/98840645382.
The event is divided into three sections, including:
• WIU English Professor William Knox will deliver “How Combating Climate Change Can Help Restore the Ecosystem.”
• WIU Associate Professor of Agriculture Joel Gruver will deliver “How Ecosystem Restoration Can Help Address Climate Change.”
• WIU Anthropology Professor Heather McIlvaine-Newsdad will deliver “How Ecosystem Restoration Will Have a Positive Effect on Social Well-Being, Socio-Economic Development and some United National SDGs.”
For more information on the event, email Owasoyo at od-owasoyo@wiu.edu.
