Environmental and Energy Policy PhD student Valoree Gagnon has recently co-authored an article published in the current issue of Science Scope. Her article, titled “Connecting Earth Systems: Developing Holistic Understanding Through the Earth-System-Science Model,” discusses strategies for teachers to incorporate the Earth System Science model into the classroom. A copy of this article will be available for a short time in the Social Sciences department office. You can also access the article using the following citation information: Gagnon, Valoree and Heather Bradway, “Connecting Earth Systems: Developing Holistic Understanding Through the Earth-System-Science Model,” Science Scope (December 2012), Vol. 36, No. 4.
Dr. Kari Henquinet has been promoted to Fellow status in the Society for Applied Anthropology through unanimous approval by the Society’s Board of Directors. The primary objective of the Society for Applied Anthropology is the scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another and the wide application of those principles to practical problems.
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Assistant Professor Richelle Winkler (SS) involved her Introduction to Sociology students in a real-life sociology lesson. Working with Brian Rendel at Copper Country Mental Health, Winkler’s students analyzed various risk factors for suicide among young people in the Copper Country. They will present their findings and recommendations for managing suicide risk at a public program at 11 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 13, in GLRC 202.
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Assistant Professor Louise Nelson Dyble (SS) wrote a paper, “LANDMARK OF DEATH: Safety, Responsibility, and the Question of a Suicide Barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge,” in Janssen Volker, ed. Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West, sponsored by The Institute for California and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Alumni and friends are invited to join Professor Mary Durfee and Michigan Tech students on a tour of Malta during Spring Break, March 10-16, 2013.
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Chair Patrick Martin (SS) was re-elected to the position of president of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage at the recent triennial congress of the committee in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Kari Henquinet accepts a position as a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences.
Emma Norman joins the Department of Social Sciences as an assistant professor.
Jonathan Robins joins the Department of Social Sciences as assistant professor.
Steven Walton joins the Department of Social Sciences as an assistant professor.
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Assistant Professor Emma Norman (SS) published a paper, “Indigenous space, citizenry and the cultural politics of transboundary water governance,” in the United Nations Global Water Forum, Discussion Paper 1248.
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