School of Natural Resources and Environment

Environmental Justice

Taylor receives HR Johnson Diversity Service Award

SNRE Professor Dorceta Taylor has received the HR Johnson Diversity Service Award. Taylor is a professor in the Environmental Justice field of study at SNRE and director of the Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative, a research and outreach center she founded and which is housed within the school. In 1992, she received a Rockefeller-Ford post-doctoral fellowship at Michigan's Poverty and the Underclass program. She joined SNRE in 1993 and is dually appointed with the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. In 2010, she was honored with the Outstanding Publication Award for Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change by the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.

In environmental jobs, minorities have staying power

Minority professionals have historically been underrepresented in major environmental organizations. A long-term study by SNRE Environmental Justice Professor Dorceta Taylor, published this winter in Environmental Practice, parses apart the stereotype that the field has been slow to diversify because minorities are generally disinterested in environmental careers.

Michigan Fellows Kinder, Pringle enriching SNRE

Out of 10 Michigan Society Postdoctoral Fellows selected university wide this year, two—Kimberley Kinder and Elizabeth Pringle—are affiliated with the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Each is finishing their first of three years as an assistant professor and using funding from the Fellows program to pursue research projects.

Ambientalistas: Hispanics in Congress vote pro-environment

The 112th Congress matches the 111th as including the largest number of Hispanic representatives in U.S. history with 31 members: two in the Senate and 29 in the House. According to recent research published by SNRE doctoral student Kerry Ard and Professor Paul Mohai, this diversification may bode very well for pro-environmental policy-making.

U-M, Duke team to improve diabetes outcomes

Improving health outcomes and quality of life for people living with type 2 diabetes are the goals of a project between a new research center at the University of Michigan and university, health and public officials in North Carolina. The Center for Geospatial Medicine, which recently moved from Duke University to U-M's School of Natural Resources and Environment, is a partner in a $6.2 million grant announced today by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation as part of its national diabetes initiative, Together on Diabetes. The project's other partners are the Duke University Medical Center and the Durham County Health Department. The project will focus on residents of North Carolina's Durham County, home to Duke.

Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor

Educational Background: 

Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1990. Advisors:  C. Peter Timmer (chair), Jerry Green, Lawrence Goulder. Dissertation: Essays on Land Management

Master of Arts in Economics, Harvard University, 1988

Arts Baccalaureate, Duke University, 1985. Double Major: Mathematics and Economics

Marie Lynn Miranda became dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, effective Jan. 1, 2012. She also holds an appointment as professor in SNRE and in the Department of Pediatrics. 

Contact:

mlmirand@umich.edu

2046a Dana

734.764.2550

Public Art Workz

Becky Schwartz collaborated on two grants and one donation request, created and organized human resource files, recruited two interns and one part-time volunteer, organized files, and performed a Gmail and Google calendar training session.

Bilal Butt, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Educational Background: 

Postdoc (Geography & Remote Sensing) University of Wisconsin, Madison 2011
Postdoc (Geography & Ecology) University of Wisconisn, Madison 2010
Ph.D. (Geography) Michigan State University 2007
Graduate Fellow International Livestock Research Institute 2007
M.A.  (Geography) Michigan State University 2002

Bilal Butt is an assistant professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and a faculty affiliate of the African Studies Center. Bilal is a people-environment geographer with regional specialization in sub-Saharan Africa and technical expertise in geospatial technologies (GPS, GIS & Remote Sensing), ecological monitoring and social-scientific appraisals.

His general research interests lie at the intersection of the natural and social sciences to answer questions of how people and wildlife are coping with, and adapting to changing climates, livelihoods and ecologies in arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa.  His current projects investigate: (1) the spatiality of livelihood strategies (resource access and utilization) among pastoral peoples under regimes of increasing climatic variability and uncertainty; (2) the nature of the relationships between wildlife and livestock in dry land pastoral ecosystems of East Africa; (3) violent and non-violent conflicts over natural resources, and; (4) how mobile information technologies such as cell phones influence natural resource management strategies among pastoral peoples in dry lands.

Contact:

bilalb@umich.edu

2502 Dana Building

734-615-6149

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