Union of Concerned Scientists President to Give Public Presentation at UMaine
Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs and Marketing, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu
ORONO, Maine — Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), will give a public presentation at the University of Maine at 4 p.m. Sept. 21 in the University Club, Fogler Library. The title of his talk is “Solving the Nuclear Threat: From the Iraq War to True Security.”
He worked at UCS as a legislative director for arms control and national security from 1989 to 1992. He has also worked as a journalist and as a legislative aide to Senator Timothy Wirth of (D-Colorado) and Representative Ted Weiss (D-New York).
Knobloch holds a master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a focus on environmental management and natural resource economics, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he concentrated in English and journalism.
Kobloch’s host at UMaine is David Batuski, chair of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.