President Mary Sue Coleman higlighted several programs of the School of Natural Resources and Environment in her address yesterday unveiling the progress and new goals behind the university's sustainability initiatives.
One of the nation' leading researchers in children's environmental health, Marie Lynn Miranda, will be the new dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), effective Jan. 1, 2012, pending approval from the Board of Regents.
Chris Ellis, associate professor of landscape architecture, and SNRE researcher Byoung-Suk Kweon have been selected by the Landscape Architecture Foundation to lead the production of Case Study Briefs that quantify environmental, economic and social benefits of exemplary high-performing landscape projects.
To learn how to visually represent the experience of a specific place for the class Visualizing the Environment, a group of 12 first-year Landscape Architecture students walked a little over a mile, from the Dana Building through downtown Ann Arbor, stopping along the way to sketch for one minute. They then returned to each point they had sketched to look at a particular aspect of the area.