School of Natural Resources and Environment

Environmental Policy & Planning News & Highlights

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.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers over the last four years has developed a set of case studies that highlight lessons learned from marine ecosystem-based management (MEBM) projects around the globe.

Recognizing the declining health of the world’s oceans, policymakers, managers and scientists have called for expanded efforts at ecosystem-based management in marine and coastal systems. To provide guidance for these efforts, an interdisciplinary team of researchers over the last four years has developed a set of case studies that highlight lessons learned from marine ecosystem-based management (MEBM) projects around the globe.

Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments

Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments is hosting a fall symposium Oct. 30. The Symposium will be in the Rackham Amphitheater on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor. From 1:30-2:45 p.m., there will be an overview of GLISA and its funded research projects. At 3 p.m., authors from the National Climate Assessment Midwest Technical Input Team will summarize climate trends and anticipated impacts of climate change in the Great Lakes region.

Lisa F. Garcia delivers EJ conference keynote

“To the advocates: keep us honest and hold our feet to the fire,” said Lisa F. Garcia, the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency’s senior advisor to the administrator for environmental justice, told a crowd of activists and academics in Ann Arbor Friday. The occasion of her keynote address was a conference to celebrate the life work of Bunyan Bryant, the co-founder of the Environmental Justice program at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and a beloved mentor to many alumni. Rather than a traditional retirement party, Bryant wanted to end his career with a conference that also would chart the future of the movement and serve academics and activists alike.

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?

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