School of Natural Resources and Environment

Environmental Informatics News & Highlights

Announcing the First Ever “Chatterbox Revisited”

6:15pm – 8:30 Thursday, Oct. 18th

Dominick’s (bundle up!)

 

SNREds of all ages and persuasions - join your Student Government and your expanded cohort in harkening back to a simpler time.

Remember August? Back before you got so busy that talk of busyness itself inundated every meeting and every greeting? Remember what it was like to stand in crisp Michigan air and tell everyone what brought you here?

We do.

Editor's Note: The StudGov Ticker is a short summary of the discussions at the weekly StudGov meeting (7 pm Tuesday, 1028 Dana). The meeting is open to the SNRE community, but for those who are unable to attend, these notes provide a brief synopsis of the meeting. Posts will be weekly.

Weekly dispatches from your faithful, sturdy and sassy Student Governors:

Careers:

Career Week is in full swing – schedule attached. Welcome Claire Boland as Director of Career Development! She came out swinging!

Editor's Note: This post was written by Parker and Margaret -- the recently-elected First Year Representatives for Student Government.  Please join Student Government in congratulating Parker and Margaret. 

Hello and aloha!

Thank you for rocking the vote and choosing us as your First Year Reps! We are stoked to represent all of you new SNREds and are excited to do everything we can to make your experience at U of M and SNRE epic.

Editor's Note: This blog post was written by SNRE student Laura Matson (MS NRE/ MUP Candidate 2013).  Laura recently sat down with Lindsey MacDonald, one of the project managers for the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program, to learn more about the program and the upcoming Harvest Festival.

What is the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program?

SNRE Envoys is a cross-disciplinary group of Masters Students working to promote and strengthen diversity within the student population of the school. Our group is focused on improving our recruiting strategy for under-represented groups in the school. This can include everything from ethnic to geographic to socio-economic to ideological diversity and much more. We are also looking to strengthen SNRE by having events that celebrate diversity and involve the whole SNREd community in the ongoing discussion about this important topic.

Editor's Note: The StudGov ticker is a short summary of the weekly StudGov meeting (7 pm Tuesday, 1028 Dana).  The meeting is open to the SNRE community, but for those who are unable to attend, these notes provide a brief synopsis of the meeting.  Posts will be weekly.

Careers Team: Career Week is well underway and funding is nearly secured. 

 Still Needed:

Calling all students to the first SNRE town hall of the year!  We want your feedback! 

Please join us to share your views on the first weeks of the fall semester and to discuss paths forward for our fair institution. StudGov representatives will be in Dana 1040 at 4:30pm on Sept. 19 to facilitate a discussion on any and all matters regarding the SNRE student experience.

Students are strongly encourage to attend.  Weather and can-do spirits permitting, we'll likely head to Dominick's following the meeting (~6pm) to kick back and continue the conversation.

diabetes

The Center for Geospatial Medicine at the University of Michigan is working to reduce death and disability from Type 2 diabetes under a grant announced today as part the nation's 2010 health care law. The center is part of a multi-state research team examining Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, in at-risk populations in four, underserved counties in North Carolina, Mississippi, and West Virginia. The Center for Geospatial Medicine, which uses systematic, spatially-based methods for analyzing environmental threats to people and communities, is housed within the Children's Environmental Health Initiative at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Four substantial, student-led sustainability projects are gaining momentum on campus, thanks to financial support from the new Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund. Three of the four, focused on reusable takeout food containers, a sustainable food kiosk and a U-M campus farm, were developed by students at SNRE. Announced by President Mary Sue Coleman last fall as part of her larger campus sustainability address, the Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund offers grants of up to $50,000 annually for projects that reduce the university's environmental footprint and/or promote a culture of sustainability on campus.

Marie Lynn Miranda delivers 11th Annual Wege Lecture

The research tool of spatial-data analysis is key to discovering and addressing environmental risks to children's health, Marie Lynn Miranda said Monday in giving the 11th Annual Wege Lecture on Sustainability.Miranda, the new dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, said such tools give both scientists and policy makers the ability to see obscure but possibly meaningful connections between a child's environment and his or her health. (VIEW VIDEO). The lecture drew on Miranda's more than 20 years of research on the topic, and specifically her published work about lead contamination among children.

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.

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