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Environmental Justice student Allyson Green

EJ student Allyson Green featured in Scientific American blog

Allyson Green, an Environmental Justice student at SNRE, is featured in a blog on the Scientific American website that talks with "new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters."

They – at least some of them – have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices explaining science to the public.

Attendees of the May 10-11, 2013, Conference on Environmental Quality, Schools, and Health

Conference explores student health, school location in Michigan

The School of Natural Resources & Environment gathered experts and advocates for a conference this month to lay the groundwork toward developing policies to improve environmental quality around Michigan K-12 schools. SNRE Professor Paul Mohai, a noted scientist on environmental justice and the health-related aspects of school locations, co-organized the “Conference on Environmental Quality, Schools, and Health.”

SPH's Joseph Eisenberg (left), and SNRE's Rebecca Hardin and Johannes Foufopoulos.

SNRE, Public Health researchers share expertise to study health systems in Africa

It's the kind of scientific question tailor-made for interdisciplinary research. How does Q-fever, a highly contagious and still largely untracked disease, move among people, livestock, and wild animals, and what are the long-term effects of its presence on human health and economic systems? Answers may be closer to emerging because of M-Cubed, a new University of Michigan program that is awarding nearly 200 grants to jump start interdisciplinary work. The two-year, $15 million effort encourages faculty to explore major issues facing the planet, from climate change and poverty to health and energy.

Paul Mohai Recipient of 2013 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

The 2013 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award went out to seven University of Michigan faculty members, one being SNRE's own Paul Mohai. The award, which comes from the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, honors faculty who have shown dedication to developing cultural and ethnic diversity at U-M.

Dean Marie Lynn Miranda

Dean Miranda gives seminar at CDC on GIS, diabetes

Marie Lynn Miranda, professor and dean at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, is giving a lecture Thursday, titled "Innovative Use of GIS for a Coordinated Approach to Chronic Disease Surveillance and Prevention." The seminar takes place at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Atlanta campus, but can be viewed live via a webstream (DETAILS BELOW). The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and the Division of Diabetes Translation is presenting the seminar.

Dorceta Taylor delivered SNRE’s annual MLK Lecture to a full house.

Food for Thought This MLK Day

Despite the snow and sub-freezing temperatures on Monday, Dr. Dorceta Taylor delivered SNRE’s annual MLK Lecture to a full house of faculty, students, and community members. The talk, entitled “Race, Poverty, and Access to Food in America: Resistance, Survival, and Sustainability,” followed the trajectory of much of Dr. Taylor’s environmental justice scholarship and teaching, using history as a lens to understanding present food disparities.

Washington, D.C., United States of America - August 31, 2011: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the edge of the Tidal Basin on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Tourists circle the monument in late summer, less than a week after it opened.

Dorceta Taylor to deliver MLK Lecture Jan. 21 at SNRE

Dorceta Taylor is delivering the annual MLK Lecture at the School of Natural Resources and Environment as part of the school’s Dean's Speaker Series. Taylor is a professor of Environmental Justice at SNRE. She also is founder and director of the Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative, which aims to increase diversity in environmental organizations as well as the broader environmental movement. It also promotes greater diversity in leadership in the environmental field. Her lecture is titled "Race, Poverty, and Access to Food in America: Resistance, Survival, and Sustainability." It begins at 5 p.m. in Room 1040, Dana Building.

The research explores “food deserts,” defined as poor access to safe, healthy and nutritious food. It also will examine urban agriculture, and how volunteer groups such as the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and its D-Town Farm in Detroit are contributing to the public dialogue about food security and food justice.

Taylor leads research team examining 'food security' across Michigan

Researchers at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment are leading a five-year, $4 million study of disparities in access to healthy food across the state. The researchers will interview residents and study data in 18 small to mid-sized cities to better understand the factors affecting "food security," a socioeconomic term that defines easy access to safe and healthy food.

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