April 5, 2012

SNRE Professor Dorceta Taylor has received the HR Johnson Diversity Service Award. Taylor is a professor in the Environmental Justice field of study at SNRE and director of the Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative, a research and outreach center she founded and which is housed within the school.

In 1992, she received a Rockefeller-Ford post-doctoral fellowship at Michigan's Poverty and the Underclass program. She joined SNRE in 1993 and is dually appointed with the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. In 2010, she was honored with the Outstanding Publication Award for Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change by the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.

The award honors Harold R. Johnson, dean emeritus of the U-M School of Social Work. Established in 1996, the award recognizes faculty whose service contributes to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community. Taylor and other recipients are recognized for their:

• Commitment to diversity as an important part of the University's educational mission
• Public and/or academically oriented endeavors that demonstrate intellectual excellence and commitment to cultural diversity in service, teaching, scholarship and/or creative activity
• Efforts to increase diversity within one's academic unit and/or the University
• Efforts to use scholarly and/or creative work to enhance the success of students and faculty of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds
• Willingness to serve as a mentor to students and
• Efforts to bring about equity in our society.

For more on the award, please visit http://www.provost.umich.edu/programs/diversity_service.html