Environmental Studies
Chemistry and Environmental Studies Professor Chris Graves designs aluminum compounds for development of more sustainable catalytic processes.
Faculty, staff and students celebrated the birth of the Environmental Studies major on May 5 with cake, t-shirts and nachos.
Professors Haili Kong and Carol Nackenoff took eighteen students in their CHIN/POLS 087A course on Policies and Issues of Fresh Water Resources to Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tainan in the summer of 2017.
Another picture celebrating the zeroth birthday of the Environmental Studies major.
The Hope and Action Capstone students and Professor Di Chiro had an open house organized with many booths offering interactive activities to engage students about climate change and to prepare for the People's Climate March in DC in April.
The Environmental Studies Program is thrilled to welcome Giovanna Di Chiro, an internationally-known scholar of environmental science and policy, as the first full-time faculty member of the Program. Professor Di Chiro will be teaching ENVS 035/POLS 043B. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action and ENVS 042/ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism in the fall of 2018.
Engineering Professor Carr Everbach engages students in hands-on design. Professor Everbach is on leave 2018-2019.
Astronomer Eric Jensen is the program coordinator for Environmental Studies.
Anthropologist Christy Schuetze visits a spirit medium with whom she's been working since 2001. Professor Schuetze is on leave spring 2019.
Ecologist José-Luis Machado engages his students in the Crum woods next to campus. Professor Machado is teaching BIOL 137. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in the fall 2018.
Historian Tim Burke teaches the Environmental History of Africa while more broadly considering possibilities inherent in digital humanities and relationships between theory and popular culture.
Professor McGarity is teaching ENGR 057. Operations Research and ENGR 063. Water Quality and Pollution Control in the fall 2018. ENGR 066. Environmental Systems will be taught in the spring 2019. He also teaches ENGR 004A. Environmental Protection (spring 2020) and ENGR 035. Solar Energy Systems (fall 2019) for the Environmental Studies program.
English professor and Fulbright scholar Betsy Bolton shares digital stories with some of her collaborators: Hamid and Mohammed, traditional artisans in the Fès medina.