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SNRE Staff Fellowship for Returning Students; application deadline 9/30/13

Posted: 
09/18/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

Applications must be submitted before 12:00 midnight on September 30

SNRE is pleased to announce the SNRE Staff Fellowship for Returning Students. This one-time fellowship of $1,000.00 is designed to aid one returning graduate student in his or her professional development to prepare for the transition from full-time student to full-time professional.

This fellowship is available only to returning SNRE graduate students in the Master of Science program, Master of Landscape Architecture program, or a dual-degree master's program.

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ESS program helps U-M make ‘Saving the Planet’ ranking

A dual-degree program at SNRE has helped the University of Michigan receive national recognition as one of “50 Colleges Committed to Saving the Planet.”

Engineering Sustainable Systems is a dual-master’s degree program between the School of Natural Resources & Environment and the U-M College of Engineering. Students pick from one of three  specializations: Sustainable Energy Systems, Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, and Sustainable Water Resources.

2013 EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge; application deadline 12/13/13

Posted: 
08/21/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

Registration begins 9/9/13; APPLICATION DEADLINE is 12/13/13.

The EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge, a prize contest launched in 2012 to encourage innovative approaches to stormwater management, engages the next generation of urban planners, designers, and engineers in the development of innovative green infrastructure systems to meet our nation’s growing water infrastructure needs. Student teams, working with a faculty advisor, will submit design briefs and a video describing a proposed green infrastructure project for their campus.
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Crane named director of Program in the Environment

Gregg Crane, a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature within the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, has been named the new director of the Program in the Environment.

Crane has been teaching ENVIRON 377, History and Literature of the Rockies, at Camp Davis since 2007.  He is a specialist in American literary and intellectual history, and his current research focuses on the importance of intuition to a collection of literary, philosophical, legal, and environmental writers. His appointments runs through June 30, 2016.

Hua Cai, a second-year doctoral student at SNRE, has won three awards for a poster presentation.

Cai, SNRE doctoral student, wins three awards for research on travel patterns of Beijing taxis

Hua Cai, a second-year doctoral student at SNRE, has won three awards for a poster presentation on research using travel patterns of taxis in Beijing, China. Her work examined the real-time trajectories of 10,375 taxis for one week to explore the impacts of individual travel patterns to plug-in hybrid electric vehicle acceptance, electrification rate, and associated implications on greenhouse gas emissions.

The poster (download .pdf below) is titled "Characterizing Individual Travel Patterns through Big Data Mining."

Assistant Professor Ming Xu Speaks at Google Summit

School of Natural Resources and Environment Assistant Professor Ming Xu spoke at Google's "How Green is the Internet Summit" June 6. The Summit, held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA was a one-day, invitation-only event where experts from industry, academia, government and NGOs explored emerging questions around the environmental impacts and benefits of the internet.

Alternative-fuel cars are no carbon cure-all

ANN ARBOR—Making cars more fuel-efficient is great for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but rather than promoting sales of electric and other alternative-fuel vehicles, policymakers should turn their focus to cutting emissions in other energy sectors—from oil wells and power plants to farms and forests affected by biofuels production—says a University of Michigan researcher.

2013/14 Michigan Stormwater-Floodplain Association Scholarship; application deadline 11/1/13

Posted: 
06/05/2013
Contact Name: 
Diana Woodworth

The Michigan Stormwater-Floodplain Association (MSFA) is the Michigan Chapter of the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM). MSFA began in 1987 to promote the common interest in floodplain and stormwater management, enhance cooperation among various local, state and federal governmental agencies, and to encourage effective and innovative approaches to managing the State's floodplain and stormwater management systems.

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