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September 15, 2006|Volume 35, Number 2


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Four noted individuals to teach
at F&ES as visiting scholars

A leading Indian scholar and an environmental practitioner will be among several visiting scholars joining the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) in 2006-2007.

They are Ramachandra Guha, India's foremost environmental historian; Jerome Ringo, chair of the board of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF); Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology; and Jozef Pacyna, director of the Center for Ecological Economics at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research.


Ramachandra Guha

Guha will be in residence during the fall term and will teach two classes, "Ecology and Society" for F&ES and "Mahatma Gandhi and the 20th Century" for the Department of History.

He is the author of numerous articles and 20 books, including "Environmentalism: A Global History" and "Lives in the Wilderness." A new book, "How Much Should a Person Consume? Thinking Though the Environment," is forthcoming this fall. His books and essays have been translated into 15 languages, including French, Japanese, Arabic and Bengali, and his first book, "The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya" (1989), was a pioneering piece that served as a model for many subsequent works by other researchers.

Guha has held several teaching positions at institutions around the world, including the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India; the University of California at Berkeley; and Oslo University in Scandinavia. He was a visiting lecturer at Yale F&ES 1986-1987.


Jerome Ringo

Ringo will be the Dorothy S. McCluskey Visiting Fellow for Conservation during the spring 2007 semester. In 2005, Ringo was elected to the chair of NWF and became president of the Apollo Alliance, a broad coalition of business, labor and environmental organizations that seeks to reinvest in the competitiveness of American industry, rebuild cities, create jobs for working families and ensure good stewardship of both the economy and the natural environment.

A champion of environmental justice and a vocal advocate of clean energy, Ringo has firsthand experience in these issues after working for more than 20 years in Louisiana's petrochemical industry. "He has a clear understanding of the impacts of poor environmental practices on the low-income communities that surround those petrochemical plants," says Gus Speth, F&ES dean.

While at F&ES, Ringo will not teach but will interact extensively with students, bringing them together with his wide array of contacts and programs, and providing them with new opportunities and insights. He will also offer a number of public and small group presentations. Ringo, whose family was evacuated by both hurricanes Katrina and Rita, will work closely with F&ES students who are studying the recovery efforts in New Orleans.


Mary Evelyn Tucker

Tucker will be the Yale bioethicist-in-residence for the 2006-2007 academic year. In addition to her role at the Forum on Religion and Ecology, she is a research associate at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Reishauer Institute at Harvard. While at Yale, she will teach two courses open to F&ES students: a "Seminar on World Religions and Ecology" in the fall, and "World Religions and Ecology: Asian Religions" in the spring.

Tucker is the author of "Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase" and "Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism." She has also co-edited several other books. Until 2005, she was a professor of religion at Bucknell University, where she taught courses in Asian religions and religion and ecology, and was a National Endowment for the Humanities chair 1993-1996.


Jozef Pacyna

Pacyna will be a resident at Yale during the fall semester and will teach a seminar on environmental modeling. He will collaborate with Thomas Graedel, the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology, and the faculty and staff of the Center for Industrial Ecology.

An expert in the emissions of metals and organic chemicals from industrial operations, waste disposal and fossil fuel combustion, Pacyna is the author or co-author of 39 books and book chapters, 105 technical reports, 208 conference papers and 103 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has made his professional career in Norway, Poland, the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For his work, he has been awarded the Main Award of the Polish Ministry of Higher Education and Technology, and the Nordic Aerosol Association.


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Freshman Address by President Richard C. Levin

Freshman Address by Dean Peter Salovey

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

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Student helps promote local, sustainable agriculture

Students spent their summer in service to the New Haven community

Four noted individuals to teach at F&ES as visiting scholars

A classic myth is made modern in Yale Rep's 'Eurydice'

Yale Repertory Theatre announces its 2006-2007 season of plays

Sculptor featured in JE show chronicles the history of humanity

Event to explore alternative responses to poverty

Issues affecting southeastern Europe are focus of conference

Day of Caring book drive to help create 'City of Readers'

Yale community is invited to meet new class of World Fellows

IN MEMORIAM

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Grant supports medical school's efforts to help children with cancer

Public invited to take part in campaign to fight obesity and weight stigma

Yale Bulldogs season opener is Employee Day

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