School of Natural Resources and Environment

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Sustainable Food Symposium

CAFE is hosting a Sustainable Food Careers Symposium Friday, Feb. 15, Room 1040 of the Dana Building. The symposium brings graduate and undergraduate students together with professionals in food careers related to sustainability and the environment. Organizers' goal is to expose students to the wide range of career opportunities in this field. The event will feature panel discussions focused on:

THIS EVENT IS FREE; THE FIRST 100 REGISTRANTS RECEIVE A FREE LUNCH! (REGISTER BELOW)

Forty master's and professional-degree students from eight schools and colleges at the University of Michigan, including 17 from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, are beginning the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program today, marking the first cohort of fellows in the $10 million program launched last spring.

 Marie Lynn Miranda discusses one remaining, albeit relatively minor, source of lead exposure: leaded aviation gasoline.

Marie Lynn Miranda, professor and dean at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, was interviewed by Environmental Health Perspectives regarding her research into children’s exposure to leaded aviation gasoline.

The interview, with host Ashley Ahearn, was turned into a podcast as part of the journal’s The Researcher’s Perspective series.

Attention SNREds! 

It’s that time of the year; please join the greater SNRE community this Friday, December 7th as three Master’s Project teams present their final reports during the Master’s Project Symposium (1040 Dana).  This is truly an exciting event.  The students involved in these projects have spent countless hours on these intense, interdisciplinary projects, which are the cornerstone of the SNRE professional-school program. Brief descriptions of each of the three projects are below. 

This past summer, a group of University of Michigan graduate students from the College of Engineering and the School of Natural Resources and Environment traveled to Liberia, West Africa as members of the student organization Sustainability Without Borders.  Sustainability Without Borders (SWB) is an interdisciplinary organization whose objective is to create a network of sustainability practitioners who develop and implement sustainability projects in rural areas of developing countries.

Editor's Note:  This piece was written by Laura Matson.   Matson is a MS/MUP Candidate at the University of Michigan. 

In September 2012, students at the SNRE Pig Roast & Produce raised $1,694.83 to donate to the organization of their choice. Organizations were nominated and chosen by popular vote at this student-organized event. The Allen Creek Greenway Conservancy, a grassroots effort to build a bike and pedestrian path through the heart of Ann Arbor along the historic alignment of Allen Creek, was this year’s recipient.

Your ever-vigilant StudGov first year reps are hosting a zero-waste, zero-money movie night in Dana 1040! This movie is presented in association with the new student beekeeping group "UMBees."

We'll be showing Queen of the Sun (the coolest honeybee documentary around) promptly at 7:30 pm, with some FUN mingling beefore and after. Bring your favorite bee-themed snack (open to interpretation).

Learn about these amazing creators, human's dependence on them, and how we can help them.

Hey you - a wise, intelligent, driven, focused graduate student with your life pulled together, with a plan, with a project, with some idea of what you want to be when you grow up .... remember when you didn't?

 

Remember when you were an undergrad and had no idea what you were doing, where you were going, what you liked, or how to do your own laundry, cook an egg, or fix a bike tire?

 

Attention SNREds!

The Annual SNRE Pumpkin Carving Contest has arrived! Sharpen your carving tools and get ready to carve!

We'll be carving in the Dana commons on Friday Oct. 26th from 5-7pm. Sign up for a pumpkin and join a carving team on the lists outside the L.A. studios on the 3rd floor.

We'll provide the seasonal snacks, tunes, sharps, and gourds. You'll create the curcubita masterpieces. Pumpkins will remain on display in the commons for Judgement Day on Monday Oct. 29th.

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