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Biomimicry 3.8 founder to speak at PLU’s annual Rachel Carson Lecture Posted by: Silong Chhun / February 17, 2022 February 17, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University is excited to welcome Dayna Baumeister, a professor at Arizona State University who holds a doctorate in organismic biology and ecology, to deliver the 2022 Rachel Carson Science, Technology and Society Lecture.Baumeister will present “(Re)Buiding a Thriving World–Mentored By Nature’s
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national park to understand more about how people and land use practices impact the ecology of small mammals. “It is a great opportunity to do research and get to know another culture,” Ojala-Barbour said of why he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship. The Northfield, Minn. native graduates this spring with a degree in environmental studies and Hispanic studies. He’s not sure how the experience will shape him or what he’ll do once his fellowship is complete. It may lead him to graduate school to study
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attended Union Theological Seminary in New York for his masters. He received his bachelors of arts degree from Earlham Collage in Indiana. He will publish the article “Thinking Globally and Thinking Locally: Ecology, Subsidiary and Multiscalar Environmentalism” in the Journal for the Study of Religion in 2008. He has spoken extensively on environmentalism and spirituality, including a lecture in May titled “Can Sacramentalism Save Biodiversity?” that was presented at the American Academy of Religion
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will call me back.” Last spring, the three friends realized they were all going to be studying in Africa for the fall semester. McCracken had plans to travel to South Africa to study social and political transformation. Leu would be in Zanzibar, where she would study coastal ecology and work on a waste-management program. Markuson, who intends to go to medical school after graduation, would be in Botswana where he would work on community health issues. Africa is a big place. But they knew they had
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African American environmental heritage (1st ed). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link) Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link) Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. (Link to purchase book) Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change
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natural world, and this grants, including the grants to Pacific Lutheran University, are an important part of that work,” said Dana Miller, senior program director for the Murdock Trust. The grants to PLU will fund two years of student-faculty research looking into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest, as well as species divergence in several Mississippi River tributaries. Each professor will work with four students (two each summer) over the next two years to both collect and analyze data. For
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had previously published a monograph on the river called “The River Nile in the Age of the British. Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power” I’ve written a bibliography on the Nile and now have written a history of the Nile covering 5,000 years and 11 countries up to today. I’m also finishing up a documentary on the river. Q: Do you conserve water where you live? Tvedt: I don’t have a water garden, and live a very modest life, with limited demand for water or anything else. And in
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push for college students to give back to their country struck home with her. She took this advice to heart and eventually worked as head of the state’s Department of Ecology, ran for and won the seat of Attorney General and became the state’s 22nd governor in 2005. Noting in particular the shellfish beds in Skagit County, and Hood Canal, Gregoire said these areas have seen small successes through a variety of groups—tribes, citizen activists and the state—all working together, with each letting go
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, Amazon and Kaiser Permanente, as well as nonprofit organizations and agencies like the Washington State Department of Ecology, Seattle Pro Musica and Crystal Judson Family Justice Center. “That (variety) was reflective of the broad range of their interests,” Pippin said. “Some students had really specific requests for the type of company that they wanted to shadow, and others knew the type of position but were open to any industry.” Natalie Nabass ‘20, a double major in religion and global studies
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