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Marc Edwards, the Charles Lunsford Professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, will give the 2018 Ferguson Family Distinguished Lectureship in the Environment and Society at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, "Truth-Seeking in an Age of Tribalism: Lessons from the Flint Water Crisis." Edwards' research group aspires to pursue science as a public good, through laboratory work on practically important but underfunded topics such as corrosion in buildings and opportunistic premise-plumbing pathogens-that work laid the groundwork for investigative science uncovering the 2001-2004 D.C. Lead Crisis and the 2014-2016 Flint Water Disaster. A light reception will precede the lecture at 5:15 pm, and a short Q&A will follow. RSVP required at https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I5FroOiC5GNC0l. Co-sponsored by the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke Law School and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.