FACULTY – Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Program in the Environment Please note that this interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. To start, could you tell us a little bit about your current research? Dr. Perrin Selcer: “I’m researching a project that I’m calling “The Holocene Is History:…
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Lauren May
STUDENT – Data Science Junior, Graham Sustainability Scholar, LSA Sustainability Intern Please note that this interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. To start, could you tell me a little bit about yourself? Lauren May: “I’m a junior studying data science. I’m minoring in Program in the Environment, and I’m also minoring…
Andy Ault
FACULTY – Associate Professor of Chemistry Project 3 Lead of the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health Curious about what “blind slimes” might be? Read on! Please note that this interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. What does your current research focus on? Andy Ault (AA): “The Great…
Aimée Classen
FACULTY – Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station Spotlight on the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) Similar to other ecologists, Dr. Aimée Classen grew up hiking and spending time outdoors, but she “didn’t really make the connection until high school that this could be a…
Selena Smith
FACULTY – 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…
David Zeglen
FACULTY – Lecturer I in International and Comparative Studies Spotlight on INTLSTD 401: 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…
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,…
Ryan Hendrickson
FACULTY – 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.…
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…
Evan Petrosky
GRAD STUDENT – Physics PhD Candidate & Sustainability Champion “I grew up in a small town in western Massachusetts. I went to undergrad at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. And I had no idea what I wanted to do and I tried out a lot of things. I ultimately decided on Physics [because] I really enjoyed…