Robert J. Gibbs, ASLA (M.L.A. '84), will be honored by the Clinton Presidential Library”˜s School of Public Service on October 15, 2012 for his career contributions in urban planning and development. Gibbs has been asked to speak as a William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer where he will present: “How Great Communities are Conceived and Built”, based on his new book "Principles for Urban Retail Planning and Development."
Author, environmentalist and activist Bill McKibben urged U-M students for their support Friday in a campaign to help prevent catastrophic climate change due largely to the burning of fossil fuels.
"We really are up against it. The swift deterioration of the physical conditions around the planet in the last couple of years has been staggering," said McKibben, author of the 1989 book “The End of Nature” and co-founder and chairman of 350.org, which describes itself as a global grassroots campaign to solve the climate crisis.
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is seeking applicants for a full”time, nine”month faculty position in sustainable food systems. SNRE’s mission is to contribute to the protection of the Earth’s resources and the achievement of a sustainable society.
Don Miskell of Boffa Miskell in New Zealand gives this annual Landscape Architecture address Nov. 12 at 5 p.m., in Room 1040 of the Dana Building. He will explore plans for the redesign and rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-laregest urban area.
For graduating seniors and graduate students, 1961-62 was unique in school history: it marked SNR’s first academic year in its then-new home, the Natural Resources Building (later to be named the Dana Building). The school’s enrollment was 246, including 94 graduate students. Such traditions as the Paul Bunyan Ball, Michigan-MSU Liars’ Banquet and Fall Field Day were in full swing.
