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12/11/00

SLU PROFESSOR CONNETT WINS AWARD IN SOUTH AFRICA

CANTON -- While attending the founding meeting of the Global Alliance for 
Incineration Alternatives (GAIA) in Johannesburg, South Africa, recently 
St. Lawrence University Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett received the 
group's first Annual GAIA Award. The event was attended by representatives 
from over 20 countries.
	"It means a great deal to me," Connett said, "because it comes from 
an organization set up by grass-roots activists from around the world with 
whom I have worked for many years." He added that he has devoted a great 
deal of time and effort to grass-roots environmental organizations during 
his career, because "that is the place where we can effect genuine change."
	Since 1984, Connett's opposition to incineration as a method of managing 
solid waste has taken him to 49 states, five Canadian provinces and 44 
other countries. During this time he has given over 1,700 public presentations, 
written many articles on dioxin and waste management and co-produced several 
videotapes on those topics, with Professor of Fine Arts Roger Bailey. His 
current area of concern is the common U.S. practice of flouridation of 
public water supplies, a practice to which he is opposed.
	Connett is a graduate of Cambridge University, with a Ph.D. from 
Dartmouth College. He joined the faculty at St. Lawrence in 1983, and has 
received several awards for his work, including the 1987 Citizen of the Year 
Award from the Canton Rotary Club.

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