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Chelsea Schelly (SS) published, “What’s political about solar electric technology? The user’s perspective,” in Engaging Science, Technology and Society 2015: 25-46. Read the full story.
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The Great Lakes Echo, published by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, quoted Richelle Winkler (SS) in an article on the challenges created by shifting populations and a changing wildland/urban interface.
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Melissa Baird (SS), published, “Heritage Ecologies and the Rhetoric of Nature” in The Rhetoric of Heritage (Kathyrn Lafrenze Samuels and Trinidad Rico—editors, University of Colorado Press).
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Professor Barry Solomon wrote an opinion piece on clean power plants that was published in the Battle Creek Enquirer.
Bruce Seely, Dean of the College of Science and Arts authored the chapter, Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868-1950, pp. 269-96 in “Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930” edited by Alan I. Marcus, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Bruce E. Seely, Dean of the College of Sciences and Arts contributed The Challenges of Transportation Integration in the U.S.A., 1890-1960, (pp. 229-47) in “Linking Networks: The Formation of Common Standards and Visions for Infrastructure Development” edited by Martin Schieflebusch and Hans Liudger-Dienel. (Ashgate Publishing, 2015).
Bruce E. Seely, Dean of the College of Sciences and Arts, contributed the chapter Inventing the American Road: Innovations Shaping the American Freeway, (pp. 233-73), in “From Rail to Road and Back Again? A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency,” edited by Ralf Roth and Colin Dival (Ashgate, 2015).
Seely and Atsushi Akera, associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at RPI, contributed to the chapter A Historical Survey of the Structural Changes in the American System of Engineering Education, in “International Perspectives on Engineering Education: Engineering Education and Practices in Context,” edited by Steen Hylgard Christensen, (Springer, 2015).
Joshua Pearce (MSE/ECE) and Richelle Winkler (SS) coauthored “Resilience to Global Food Supply Catastrophes”, published in Environment, Systems, and Decisions.
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Luke J. Bowman and Kari B. Henquinet (SS) published an article “Disaster Risk Reduction and Resettlement Efforts at San Vicente (Chichontepec) Volcano, El Salvador: Toward Understanding Social and Geophysical Vulnerability” in the Journal of Applied Volcanology. Bowman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences and Henquinet is the Peace Corps Master’s International Director and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences.
Adam Wellstead, Associate Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, co-authored Opening Up the Black Box of Adaptation Decision-Making published in Nature Climate Change, Vol. 5, June 2015.