Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Program in the Environment; DEI Chair for the EARTH Department Principal Investigator at the Plant Evolution, Paleobotany, and Paleoecology Research (PEPPR) Lab Please note that this interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. To get started, can you share how you decided to pursue…
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Faculty Spotlight: David Zeglen
Lecturer I in International and Comparative Studies INTLSTD 40: International Studies Advanced Seminar: Global Climate Justice Dr. David Zeglen’s journey began in an oil town in Canada, recalling that he has always had a “sort of interest intellectually in globalization and climate change”, where he witnessed the disproportionate impacts of the industry on Indigenous communities…
Cherish Dean’s Climate Diary
The Storyteller’s Story: Cherish Dean’s Reflection on Why Telling Stories is Crucial to the Sustainability Movement Have you wondered at all about the person behind the Climate Diaries? Here’s a chance to hear directly from her during her final days at LSA. Written in about the same amount of time she would take to interview,…
Faculty Spotlight: Ryan Hendrickson
Lecturer IV of French, Coordinator for French 101, 102, 103 Spotlight on FRENCH 101: Elementary French & FRENCH 103: Review of Elementary French How can you integrate climate conversations into first-year language courses? Get creative and talk about it! After attending the Embedding Climate Change in Courses (EC3) retreat two summers ago, Dr. Ryan Hendrickson…
Brittany Pendergraft
GRAD STUDENT – Classical Studies PhD Candidate “I was born and raised in rural Appalachia, like super rural. Technically Virginia, but [at] the intersection of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. [It was] a very poor area, coal country, an area hit hardest by the opioid crisis. And when I was there, just seeing so many people…
Faculty Spotlight: David Temin
Associate Professor of Political Science, Administrative Faculty in Native American Studies Program Spotlight on POLSCI 495: Undergraduate Seminar in Political Theory – Climate Justice: Colonialism, Carbon, and the Future Growing up, Dr. David Temin was no stranger to “having conversations about politics around the kitchen table” as his mom “was always watching Sunday morning news…
Dan Rife
STAFF – Director of LSA Facilities & Operations “I came to the university as a student, in chemical engineering. After I graduated, [I went] to work for a local chemical consulting company, where they had an office of two or three people that focused on energy management. When I interviewed, I interviewed to hire in…
Meghan Duffy
FACULTY – Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies “So I’m a professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and I ended up here because [U of M] is a really wonderful university. It has amazing students. It has amazing resources. And my research focuses on aquatic…
Faculty Spotlight: Sol Hart
Professor of Communication and Media and Program in the Environment Spotlight on COMM 413: Environmental Communication With an undergraduate degree in Environmental Policy, Analysis, and Planning from UC Davis, Professor Sol Hart’s passion for policy and legislative writing determined his initial path after college. During his first experience working in politics in California, in an…
Faculty Spotlight: Bénédicte Boisseron
Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Affiliated Faculty, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Spotlight on AAS 498: DAAS in Action – Black Ecologies Born and raised in France to a French mother and French Caribbean father, Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron had always been fascinated with African American literature, earning…