Posted:
09/20/2013
Contact Name:
Diana Woodworth
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thursday, 10 October 2013
These fellowships are offered to support SNRE students finishing their master's studies.
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Landscape Architecture
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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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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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.
Joan Nassauer, SNRE Landscape Architecture professor, discusses the benefits and limitations of “blue infrastructure” in dealing with the city of Detroit’s stormwater overflow challenges.
Five researchers at the School of Natural Resources and Environment received funding under a new University of Michigan program to promote interdisciplinary work. The funded projects are examining the challenges facing resource-constrained environments and sustainable transportation.
The Global Challenges for a Third Century (TCI) program, as the initiative is called, funded fewer than 15 percent of submitted proposals.
Mark Van Putten, a friend of SNRE with more than 30 years of experience in environmental policymaking and nonprofit organizational leadership at the international, national, regional, and local levels, delivered the Spring 2013 Commencement Address to graduating students Saturday, May 4.
On Monday, April 29, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, the Program in the Environment, and especially the Master of Landscape Architecture Program lost a dear colleague and beloved teacher, Assistant Professor Beth Diamond.
Of the 160 projects announced since November 2012, 16 have at least one SNRE faculty member (19 total faculty). In addition to the Q-fever project, here are titles, project summaries and faculty role (with field of study) in the other 15 projects.
