Great Lakes Now interviewed Dr. Nancy Langston about her latest book, “Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene.”
Congratulations to our December graduates who have earned the following degrees:
PhD in ENVIORONMENTAL AND ENERGY POLICY
Dr. Brent Burns
Topic: Aging Pipeline Infrastructure in the United States: Emergency or Marvel? How does a Changing Policy Mix, Energy Justice, and Social Media Impact Future Risk Analysis?
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Gary Spikberg
Topic: Augmented Reality as a Tool for Industrial Heritage Education and Interpretations
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Ezra Cotter (Magna Cum Laude)
George Gruver (Summa Cum Laude)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Nathan Hatcher
Noah Lawrence
Students in Richelle Winkler’s Introduction to Sociology class are hosting a virtual Health & Society Film Festival, and invite the public to participate.
The students have selected 11 films ranging from documentaries to comedy and drama. Films address mental health, pandemics, social movements in response to AIDS, birth control, substance abuse, pharmaceuticals, stress, racism, eugenics, maternal mortality and death/dying. The films are all widely available and we ask folks to watch them on their own first, then to participate in Zoom discussions about them and what we can learn from them about health and society.
Discussions will be held between Nov. 16 and Dec. 6, depending on the film. See our website for film descriptions, where to watch, discussion dates/times and links to join the discussion.
Information on the film festival is located here.
Ph.D. students James Juip and Larissa Juip (SS) have been published as contributors to the edited volume “Shaped by Steel: Landscapes, Lives and Legacies of a Global Industry.”
James and Larissa’s article, titled “Future Directions of Industrial Heritage Interpretation at the Soudan Underground Mine,” appears on pages 113-120 of the volume.
Ph.D. student Larissa Juip (SS) has published a review of “Staging Indigenous Heritage: Instrumentalisation, Brokerage, and Representation in Malaysia” in the journal Museum Worlds.
Join the College of Engineering on Husky Bites on Monday, 11/1 at 6 pm ET! They will be on zoom with Prof. Richelle Winkler and residents of the Sustainability House, Abbey Herndon & Kendra Lachcik. Tour the ever-evolving, zero-waste Sustainability Demonstration House on Husky Bites.
Alexis Pascaris, recent Environmental and Energy Policy MS graduate, was interviewed by PV Magazine on agrivoltaics as an alternative to large-scale solar. Read the article here.
Congrats to Hongmei Lu, recent EEP PhD graduate, on her new postdoc position with the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is working on a European Research Council project on collaborative governance in urban planning.
Professor Emeritus Hugh Gorman’s book, “The Story of N: A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability” was recommended by Five Books as one of the best books on the periodic table of elements.
John Arnold, PhD, Alumni of our Industrial Heritage and Archeology program ’17 is the new historical architect at the Keweenaw Historical National Park and was recently featured on Lake Superior Podcast. Learn more about John and his job preserving the buildings and industrial sites of the Keweenaw and promoting a better understanding of the area’s industrial heritage.