Evening Colloquia – Spring 2008

 


Tuesday, February 19

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Joel Tickner '89, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of MA Lowell

Rethinking the Way We Address Complex Risks to Human Health and Ecosystems

 

Tuesday, February 26

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Peter McKinley '87, Director of Forestland Conservation, Forest Society of Maine

 

Conserving Warblers and Willet

 

Tuesday, March 11

7:00 pm in Keyes 105

Co-sponsored by the STS Program

Sherwood Rowland, Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate, UC Irvine

 

Frontiers of Environmental Chemistry

 

Thursday, March 13

7:00 pm in Diamond 142

Co-Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement

Sally Fairfax, Professor of Forest Policy, University of California, Berkeley

 

Protecting Large Working Landscapes: Models and Cautionary Tales

 

Tuesday, March 18

7:00 pm in Olin 1

Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and ES, Middlebury College

 

Fanning the Flames: Some Next Steps for the World's Climate Movement

 

Tuesday, April 15

7:30 pm in Diamond 142

Grossman Lecture

Tom Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics

 

Emissions Trading: The Evolution of an Economic Idea from Concept to Global Implementation

 

Wednesday, April 16

7:30 pm in Lovejoy 100

Co-sponsored by History Department

James McCann, Professor of History, Boston University

 

Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Maize Cultivation on Malaria Transmission in Ethiopia