The School of Natural Resources and Environment today announced the 2012-14 Michigan cohort of Wyss Conservation Scholars. The Wyss Foundation supports two students each year at four different universities nationwide to recognize future leaders in nonprofit and public sector conservation, with a focus on the Western United States.
SNRE alumnus William C. Sullivan provided today’s graduate students with tips on making their research and professional lives more meaningful.
Sullivan, who earned his doctoral degree in 1991 from SNRE, was invited to give the school’s Rackham Centennial Alumni Lecture. About 110 people attended the Oct. 25 talk in the Dana Building. He is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (View the lecture)
In an interview with Metro Times, SNRE Associate Professor Raymond De Young talks about 'nature deficit disorder" and other aspects of environmental psychology. "You can think about environmental stewardship as sustaining our relationship with nature. But it also involves social sustainability — maintaining the sustainability of the neighborhood, our relations to our family, our relations to one another," De Young says in the interview with W. Kim Heron.
Teachers in Michigan, the Great Lakes region and beyond recognize the importance of educating the next generation on the value of the Great Lakes, including its fishery resources. As a result, a comprehensive new collection of education tools and resources for K-12 educators in the Great Lakes region is now available through the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN).