Social Sciences Newsblog

Sustainability Science and Society Degree Program Approved

Published February 28, 2018

Last Friday the Tech Board approved the proposal for a new bachelor’s of science degree in sustainability science and society offered by the Department of Social Sciences. Click here for the front page Daily Mining Gazette piece on the new degree.

New Funding for a Study on Public Power Utilities and Solar Energy Access

Published February 28, 2018

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A $63,000 grant provided by the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program will allow researchers from Michigan Tech University and the Western Upper Peninsula Planning & Development Region (WUPPDR) “identify strategies to help public power utilities provide their customers access to solar energy” in the Villages of Baraga and L’Anse according to the story by UPMatters.com published on February 22, 2018. The research team includes Chelsea Schelly (MTU), Brad Barnette (WUPPDR), Bob Lafave (Village of L’Anse/MTU), Emily Prehoda (MTU), Roman Sidortsov (MTU), and Richelle Winkler (MTU).

Click here to read the full story.

New Funding: Schelly and Winkler for “Community Solar in Rural Communities” Project

Published February 26, 2018

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Chelsea Schelly is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $36,943 research and development contract with WPPI Energy. Richelle Winkler is the Co-PI on the project “Community Solar in Rural Communities.” This is a 20-month project.

New Book: “Environmental Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability” Edited by Schelly and Banerjee. Features Chapters by Kreuze, Pischke, and Sidortsov

Published February 23, 2018

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Chelsea Schelly and Aparajita Banerjee (PhD EEP) are co-editors of the volume Environmental Policy and Pursuit of Sustainability, just published by Rout ledge. Contributing authors/co-authors include Amanda Kreuze (MS EEP), Erin Pischke (PhD EEP), and Roman Sidortsov along with Banerjee and Schelly.

Scarlett, Trepal, and Keweenaw Time Traveler Research on how Copper Country Towns have Changed Featured in Detroit Free Press

Published February 20, 2018

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Research by Sarah Scarlett (SS) and Dan Trepal, a PhD student in Industrial Heritage and Archeology, was featured in the Detroit Free Press. The article describes how the Keweenaw Time Traveler can be used to understand how Copper Country towns have changed over time.

Arnold and Lafreniere Publish on Creating a Longitudinal Data-driven Model of Change over Time

Published February 2, 2018

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Industrial Heritage and Archeology PhD graduate John Arnold and Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) published the article: “Creating a Longi tudinal, Data-driven 3D Model of Change Over Time in a Postindustrial Landscape Using GIS and CityEngine,” in the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development.

Lafreniere Recent Publications

Published February 2, 2018

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Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) recently published the “Routledge Companion to Spatial History (Routledge, UK, 2018, 636 pp.), which he co-edited with Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, UK) and Don Debats (Flinders University, Australia).

Lafreniere also co-authored three chapters of the 28-chapter volume: “Introduction” (chapter 1), “Following Workers of the Industrial City across a Decade: Residential, Occupational, and Workplace Mobilities” (chapter 14), and “‘A city of the white race occupies its place’: Kanaka Row, Chinatown, and the Indian Quarter in Victorian Victoria” (chapter 15).

Re-Imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Published January 31, 2018

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Angie Carter recently published the co-written article, “Public Action for Public Science: Re-imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture” in Capitalism Nature Socialism Vol. 0, Iss. 0, 2018 in a special ecofeminism edition. The article analyzes community based efforts to rebuild the Center after its defunding by the State legislature.

Solomon Publishes on Geographies of Energy

Published January 30, 2018

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Professor Emeritus Barry D. Solomon (SS) recently published the “Handbook on the Geographies of Energy” (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 2017, 576 pp.), which he co-edited with Kirby Calvert (University of Guelph, Canada).

Solomon also co-authored three chapters of the 37-chapter volume: Introduction (chapter 1), Geographical Dimensions of Wind Power (chapter 10), and Geography of Geothermal Energy Technologies (chapter 12).

Schelly Discusses Her Book “Dwelling in Resistance” in Podcast

Published January 2, 2018

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Chelsea Schelly’s latest book, Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017), was the feature of a podcast with Dr. Michael O. Johnston on the New Books Network website. Click here to learn more and to listen to the podcast.