Congratulations! A Year in Faculty Awards

Congratulations to all of our faculty members who received awards this year!   Sean Ahearn—New York City Department of Environmental Protection; Natural Resource Program Data Management Services: GIS, WALIS, and Streams Geodatabase, February 2013-January 2014   Teresa Bandosz—Mead Westvaco Corporation: Gas Service Testing, December 2012-October 2013   James Biles—NSF EAGER/Collaborative Research: Overcoming Barriers to Diffusion and Adoption of Sustainable and Resilient Buildings Materials in Coastal Areas of Southern Mexico, June 2013-May 2015; EL CONCIYTEY: Strengthening the Value Chain for Chile Habanero from the Yucatán Peninsula by Means of Understanding its Food System, February 2013-January 2014   Jeffrey Bird—University of California-Berkeley …

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David Spataro Speaks at Interference Archive!

    From Free Stores to Really Really Free Markets: Radical political space between “ticketless theater” & the commons Monday December 9, 2013 7pm The Interference Archive will host David Spataro, Interference Archive’s first scholar in residence for a presentation on his research on radical spaces and the commons

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Marianna Pavlovskaya Wins an NSF Grant for Mapping the Solidarity Economy

Associate Prof. Marianna Pavlovskaya of the Geography Department and CUNY Graduate Center won an NSF grant to study and map the solidarity economy in the United States. Throughout the world, solidarity economies involve economic practices that orient themselves toward social and environmental sustainability rather than profit maximization and competition. In the United States they include, for example, cooperative businesses, community land trusts, credit unions, community supported agriculture, and other businesses that prioritize cooperation, democratic participation, and social inclusion. The solidarity economy has substantial but unrecognized positive impacts because it helps to increase economic activity, employment, well-being, and overall socio-environmental sustainability …

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EES faculty in this Month’s “Happenings in the Sciences”

From: Happenings in the Sciences Volume 3, Issue 3, November 2013   Nicholas Freudenberg (Dist. Prof., Hunter, Psychology and Public Health) was a moderator of the public health panel at the “Superstorm Sandy: Are We Ready for the Next One?” conference held at the Graduate Center on May 29. The event featured environmental and climate scientists, emergency and health management specialists, and community advocates. Participants included William Solecki (Prof., Hunter, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Director, Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter; and Co-Chair, Mayor’s Panel on Climate Change) and William J. Fritz (Prof., Staten Island, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Interim President, Staten Island). The public health panel included …

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