Environmental Studies

Dr. Michael Kingston, professor of biology and environmental studies, was elected to the position of President-Elect at the North Carolina Academy of Science's 109th annual meeting at Campbell University on March 23-25. He will serve as the Academy's President during the 2013-2014 academic year.

Dave Gammon, assistant professor of biology; Jen Platania, associate professor of economics; Susan Manring, associate professor of management; and environmental studies major David Munoz published a peer-reviewed guest editorial in the December 2011 issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

On Thursday, Nov. 17, in Moseley 217 at 7 p.m., Non-Violence Studies and Environmental Studies will screen the documentary "Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprints of War" followed by a Q&A led by Professor Emerita Anne Cassebaum.

My Sister Susan's House, a community project directed by Robert Michel Charest in the Department of Environmental Studies, won a Housing North Carolina Award for 2011.

Dozens of students, educators, residents and people who work in water management across the state attended the daylong conference.

Two young alumni grew their Periclean Scholar legacies through a program for social and environmental activists.

Elon's Center for Environmental Studies will host the 10th annual Fall Environmental Forum, "A River Runs Through Us," on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011

The 8th annual Elon University Fall Environmental Forum, a conference for leaders, builders, developers, educators and students “with a vision for a sustainable community,” takes place Oct. 30-31 in McKinnon Hall with some of the biggest names in the regional green economy scheduled to share their experiences.

Samantha DiRosa, associate professor of digital art and environmental studies, recently presented on her CATL scholar research at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education regional conference in Whidbey Island, Wash.