Newsletter
Spring 2008
From the Directors
Growth is essential to progress. Uncontrolled growth is unsustainable. Growth can be managed to achieve sustainability.
Room to Grow
The Environmental Science and Policy program recently received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide for the establishment of the Center for Geospatial Analysis and seed a post-doctoral fellowship program.
Bringing It Home
One hundred and twenty two W&M undergraduates and twelve faculty from across the disciplines participated this spring in the Environmental Science and Policy program’s one-credit speaker series and seminar.
All Together Now
A study by William and Mary researchers shows that administrative support is vital for sustainability action
Give Something Back
Beginning in 2005, ‘78 William and Mary Alum Dennis Liberson began giving to the Environmental Science programs at his alma mater.
To A Greener Place
In 2007, Williamsburg Mayor Jeanne Zeidler signed the Mayor's Climate Protection Agreement, a commitment that asks mayors to work towards aggressive reductions in carbon use in their city on their own timeline, and to make sustainability issues a priority on their agenda.
Green Fees
This year, members of William and Mary’s Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) created a new plan for furthering environmental reform on campus: the introduction of a student Green Fee.
That Thing You Do
Student and faculty shorts
From the Ground Up
After a summer of cows, chickens, and crops on a Virginia farm, a student’s semester in Iceland brings sustainability into the forefront.
At the Bottom of the World
When a friend told me about his work as a laboratory technician aboard the Antarctic research vessel R/V Laurence M. Gould, I was immediately interested, and applied for the same position.
Alumni Updates Spring 2008
Mary Rogalski: I got married this summer to Ben Rogalski, a W&M alum (we're both class of 2002).