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Departmental News
Biofuels Policy Researcher Joins Environmental Studies Department
Theresa Selfa, formerly Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Kansas State University, joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental Studies in August. Dr. Selfa received her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 2001. She also holds an MCP in Community Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Her current research focuses on biofuels policy and attitudes; recently, she was appointed to a National Research Council committee on biofuels policy. Additional research interests include food and agriculture, development, and political ecology. Dr. Selfa joins ESF at a time of substantial, cross-campus research and program development in biofuels and renewable energy. Welcome, Dr. Selfa!
New Graduate Students, 2010/11
The Department of Environmental Studies welcomes 17 new graduate students from Brazil, China, Yemen, and Zimbabwe, as well as from around the United States. Five make up the third cohort of the Department's new Environmental Studies graduate program. Other new students are working with ES faculty in the interdepartmental Environmental and Natural Resources Policy (ENRP) doctoral program and Graduate Program in Environmental Science (GPES). Two Fulbright Fellows are among the incoming students. For a listing of new, incoming graduate students affiliated with the Department of Environmental Studies, click here.
Watershed Pollution Modeling Focus of Visiting Scholar's Work at ESF
LI Xiaoyu, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was Visiting Scholar with the Department of Environmental Studies for one year, through December 2010. While at ESF, Dr. Li worked with Myrna Hall and others in integrating simulation modeling and GIS for studying interactions between humans and their environments, and in calibrating a distributed hydrology/ non-point source pollution model at the watershed scale. For further information about Dr. Li and his research interests, click here to see his CV.
Environmental Studies Student Organization
The ESF Environmental Studies Student Organization (ESSO) is now in its third year! For further information, contact ESSO President, Shaylyn Decker at <shdecker@syr.edu>.
Environmental Studies Announcements Listserv
An e-mail listserv is available for citizens, scholars, and others in central New York interested in being notified of guest speakers and other events sponsored by the Dept. of Environmental Studies. If you would like to receive such notices, contact the Department at <envsty@esf.edu> or 315.470.6636.
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Staff Updates
Valerie Luzadis is the new Interim Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies. Dr. Luzadis is Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Ecological Economics, in the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management; Assistant to the Provost for Academic Initiatives; and Institutional Assessment Coordinator for ESF. Welcome, Val!
This summer, at the completion of his three-year term, David Sonnenfeld stepped down as Chair to focus on a reinvigorated program of nationally and internationally recognized scholarship on institutional environmental transformation. Recently, he was elected to a four-year term on the Board of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24). The committee met at the quadrennial XVIIth World Congress of Sociology, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in July.
Curriculum Coordinators
Jack Manno is the Department's Graduate Studies Coordinator. Environmental Studies masters students needing petitions signed, etc. should contact Professor Manno. Richard Smardon is the Department's Undergraduate Studies Coordinator. Environmental Studies majors needing petitions signed, etc., should contact Professor Smardon.
ESF Writing Program
Benette Whitmore is Director of the ESF Writing Program. Dawnelle Jager is the new Coordinator of ESF's Writing Resource Center.
To receive e-mail notices regarding upcoming talks, lectures, and other events, contact <envsty@esf.edu> and ask to be added to the Environmental Studies Announcements listserv.
