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Please join us in welcoming the 2011-2013 Environmental Fellows, who will be on campuses the first day of fall semester 2011! Below is information about each one, alphabetically by institution.
Birmingham-Southern College welcomes Sarah Frohardt-Lane, whose field is race and environmental history in the United States. She is a 2011 PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sarah’s Mentors are Randall Law (history), and Scot Duncan (biology).
Centre College hired Cynthia Isenhour, who received her PhD in comparative environmental governance and policy, with a specialization in sustainable consumption programs and policy, at the University of Kentucky in 2010. Cindy’s Mentors are economics faculty David Anderson and Marie Petkus.
Davidson College’s new Fellow is Abigail Schade, 2011 PhD in global environmental history, with an interest in groundwater, at Columbia University. Mentors are Jonathan Berkey (history), and Annie Ingram (environmental studies and English).
Furman University’s Carmel Price earned her PhD in 2011 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, in the field of sociology, with a focus on environmental values. Carmel’s Mentors are Paul Kooistra (sociology), Brannon Andersen (geology), David Redburn (sociology), and Angela Halfacre (political science).
Hendrix College’s Amanda Hagood, a 2010 Vanderbilt University PhD in English, specializes in American environmentalism and postwar culture. Amanda’s Mentors are Alex Vernon (English), and Joyce Hardin (biology).
Millsaps College welcomes Drew Swanson, a 2010 University of Georgia PhD in environmental history with a focus on southern agriculture. Drew’s Mentor is William Storey (history).
Rhodes College welcomes Ermanno Affuso. An Italian citizen, Ermanno holds a 2011 PhD from Auburn University with a focus on environmental and resource economics. Ermanno’s Mentor is Steve Caudill (economics).
Rollins College’s new Fellow is James Klepek, a 2011 PhD from the University of Arizona. His field is environmental politics, with a focus on social movements in Latin America. Mentors are environmental studies professors Barry Allen and Lee Lines.
Sewanee: University of the South welcomes Devan McGranahan, whose 2011 PhD at Iowa State University concentrates on sustainable agriculture. Devan’s Mentors are Ken Smith (forestry) and David Haskell (biology).
Southwestern University’s Brandon Canfield is a 2006 Arizona State University PhD in environmental chemistry. Brandon’s Mentor is Emily Niemeyer (chemistry).
Trinity University’s new Fellow is William Grove-Fanning, a 2011 PhD at the University of North Texas in environmental philosophy, with a concentration in moral motivation and biodiversity loss, with additional strengths in food ethics, climate ethics, and philosophy of ecology. William’s Mentors are Richard Reed (sociology) and Judith Norman (philosophy).
And last but not least, the University of Richmond welcomes Tihomir Kostadinov, a citizen of Bulgaria and a 2002 UR alumnus. Tiho received a PhD in marine science at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2009. His focus is ocean bio-optical modeling and bio-geo-chemistry and the role of land and ocean ecosystems in climate formation. Tiho’s Mentors are geography professors Todd Lookingbill and Mary Finley-Brook, Don Forsyth (psychology), Malcolm Hill (biology), and David Kitchen (geology).
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The ACS Environmental Fellowship Program will help prepare new PhDs for successful careers as interdisciplinary teachers and scholars. Fellows will receive a rich, productive introduction to teaching and research in topnotch small college settings with high teacher-student ratios, mentored by some of the best liberal arts professors in the country.
For more information about mentoring, please see the ACS Guide for Mentors of Environmental Fellows.
In fall 2008, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation board awarded ACS $3.5 million to support 24 Post-doctoral Fellows in environmental studies between 2008 and 2013. This program provides a strong boost to environmental initiatives on the campuses and in the consortium.
 This August, John A. Roush, President of Centre College and Chair of the ACS Board of Directors, met with A. Stanley Meiburg, Acting Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4. Roush and Meiburg came together to officially sanction an agreement that was almost three years in the making. The sedate but festive event, hosted by Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, was attended by well wishers from the local community along with Centre students, faculty, and staff. After brief remarks by both signatories, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, questions were asked and answered, and refreshments were enjoyed.
The finalized MOU emphasizes collaboration between ACS and EPA Region 4 in several ways: through assistance to faculty with curriculum and pedagogy; by providing ACS students with opportunities for community service, undergraduate research, and student leadership; and through assistance to staff with physical plant and facilities issues. As part of the relationship, EPA will extend its expertise to ACS at conferences, workshops, and as visiting faculty; provide assistance to institutions regarding compliance issues; offer opportunities for students to present research at EPA conferences; allow ACS students to apply for internships; and assist students interested in EPA careers.
While only ten ACS institutions are located in Region 4,
all ACS colleges and universities will be able to share in collaborative experiences with EPA. For more information,
or to read the MOU, please contact Elizabeth MacNabb at emacnabb@colleges.org, or go to http://www.colleges.org/enviro/mou/ACS-EPA-MOU.pdf.
The Sewanee Environmental Institute announces its summer field courses, open to all students in the Associated Colleges of the South. Three courses will be offered in either anthropology or biology. More information, as well as course requirements and online registration, may be found at Sewanee Environmental Institute. Faculty and students with questions should contact Program Coordinator Rachel Petropoulos,
rpetropo@sewanee.edu.
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The ACS Environmental Initiative, which ran from 1998 to 2008, encompassed environmental sustainability not only in academics, but in campus operations, campus-community partnerships, student development, and more. As we transition towards new Programs in Sustainability and the Environment, we reflect upon that highly successful ten-year program, which changed ACS campuses for the better. Evidence of its success is everywhere; most ACS institutions have made significant physical and cultural changes to emphasize “green” thinking. Because these changes have the potential to affect not only individuals at each campus but also an entire region of the country, we believe the overall impact of the ACSEI was much greater than the sum of its parts.
Clearly, ACSEI influenced ACS presidents who signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org). Equally clearly, ACS faculty and staff members now working to carry out Commitment requirements for their presidents are those very same faculty and staff who attended ACSEI conferences and workshops over the years, and who played key roles in ACSEI alliance and grant activities. With their help, the ACS Environmental Initiative had a profound impact on the lives of students, faculty and staff in our institutions, transforming them into effective environmental citizens. For more about ACSEI activities, please see Archived ACSEI Reports.
The past ten years were very productive for the ACS Environmental Initiative. Since 1998, we estimate that over 7000 ACS faculty, students, and staff, and several hundred members of the surrounding communities, were affected by the many projects and activities ACSEI sponsored or supported. Between 2001 and 2008, ACSEI supported 131 Faculty Fellows, 16 Facilities Fellows, 269 Student Interns, and 180 alliance members; awarded 232 grants to 294 recipients for a total of $456,768. For more information about ACSEI alliance grants, please see Successful Alliance Proposals, 2005-2008.
Since 1998, ACS Environmental Programs hosted or helped to support 42 workshops, conferences and symposia addressing various aspects of environmental citizenship. At little or no cost to the individual or to the campuses, these workshops gave over 1000 ACS faculty, students and staff an opportunity to learn about, be engaged in, and be motivated by their peers' environmental courses and research, by co-curricular environmental programs, and by the many environmental partnerships and projects that were created, implemented, and strengthened due to ACS alliance grants. For more about ACSEI activities, please see Archived ACSEI Reports, as well as a Brief Summary of ACS Accomplishments since 1998.” |
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ACS - EPA MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
between U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Associated Colleges of the South |
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ACS is a member of AASHE
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ACS 10th Anniversary Trees
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In
honor of our tenth anniversary as a consortium, the ACS gave
a tree to each of our member campuses. |
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Participants at the 2006
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