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Environmental
Faculty at Carolina (click
here for listing)
Environmental activities on the Carolina campus are carried out by a broad array
of faculty in diverse departments, curricula, programs and centers. They have
been brought together as the Carolina Environmental Faculty, representing all
faculty engaged in education, research and/or outreach related to environmental
science and studies. They support the environmental programs offered by all
administrative units of Carolina, including the College of Arts and Sciences
and the Schools of Business, Law, Medicine, Public Health, Education, Government,
Journalism and Mass Communication, and Social Work, as well as the CEP programs
that cut across those administrative units. They collectively make up the intellectual
and interdisciplinary community of environmental scholars to which students,
faculty, administrators, and outside organizations can turn for expertise in
environmental education, research, and outreach and public service.
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Environmental Units at Carolina
The Carolina campus contains an impressive array of activities in environmental
education, research and outreach. These are carried out in the units listed
below. To learn more about each of these, please travel to their web sites through
the links provided:
African and Afro-American Studies,
Department of
Anthropology, Department of
Applied Mathematics Program
Arts and Sciences, College of
Biology, Department of
Biostatistics, Department of
Burch Programs and Honors Study Abroad
Carolina Environmental Program
Carolina Population Center
Center for Advanced Study of the
Environment
Center for Environmental
Health and Susceptibility
Center for Environmental
Medicine and Lung Biology
Center for Environmentally Responsible
Solvents
Center for Math and Science Education
Center for Sustainable Enterprise
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
Chemistry, Department of
City and Regional Planning, Department
of
Communication Studies, Department of
Drinking Water Research Center
Ecology, Curriculum in
Economics, Department of
Education, School of
Environmental Finance Center at UNC-Chapel
Hill
Environmental Resource Program
Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Department of
Epidemiology, Department of
Geography, Department of
Geological Sciences, Department of
Government, School of
Institute of Marine Sciences
International Studies, Curriculum in
Journalism and Mass Communication, School
of
Kenan Institute Asia
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
The Frank Hawkins
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Law, School of
Marine Sciences, Department of
Marine
Sciences Program
Mathematics, Department of
Medicine, School of
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Philosophy, Department
of
Political Science, Department of
Public Health, School of
Public Policy, Department of
Social Work, School of
Sociology, Department of
Statistics,
Department of
Toxicology
Program and Curriculum
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Environmental Programs
Coordinating Committee
Since there is a wide variety
of undergraduate environmental options for students, Carolina has created the
Environmental Programs Coordinating Committee to oversee and integrate the programs.
This ensures that students are directed to the program best suited to their
interests, and allows for the sharing of educational resources. The members
of the Environmental Programs Coordinating Committee are listed below.
Marc
Alperin, Marine Sciences
Ray Burby,
City and Regional Planning
Joseph Carter,
Geological Sciences
Doug Crawford-Brown, Carolina
Environmental Program
David Dill,
Public Policy
Don Francisco,
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
James Hevia,
International and Area Studies
Aaron Moody, Geography
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UNC
Sustainablity Coalition
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Environmental Resource Program
Leading the university's
outreach activities in the environmental area is the Environmental
Resource Program (ERP), run jointly by the School of Public Health and the
CEP. Established in 1985 to link the environmental resources of the University
with the citizens of North Carolina, the ERP is one of only a handful of university-sponsored
programs of its kind in the nation. It provides training, technical assistance,
educational materials, online resources and policy research to North Carolina's
environmental and community groups, local governments and public schools. It
also convenes workshops among diverse stakeholders on strategic environmental
issues. It maintains the Carolina Health and Environmental Community Center
(CHECC) web site and its CHECC
Listservs. It undertakes environmental education. It publishes the Guide
to North Carolina Environmental Groups. The Environmental Resource Program
also ensures that community concerns and issues are incorporated into every
aspect of each North Carolina-based site in the CEP’s field site network.
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Student
Organizations
The Carolina Environmental Student
Alliance (CESA)
The Carolina Environmental Student Alliance is a network of undergraduate and
graduate students pursuing multidisciplinary academic work in environmental
science and studies. Like the Carolina Environmental Program, CESA crosses traditional
boundaries to involve students from a broad range of departments and professional
schools, programs and institutes. It promotes cooperation and collaboration
in both research and study and offers opportunities for outreach and public
service. It serves as the professional organization for environmental students
on the Carolina campus.
One of CESA’s primary
goals is to provide an intellectual forum, professional network and source of
educational programs for students. Programs may take the form of workshops,
lecture series, symposia, panel discussions or job fairs. All students are encouraged
to use CESA to initiate and/or participate in such activities.
The CESA listserve (cesalist)
provides news about upcoming events, meetings and opportunities. It also offers
a place for participants to post their own announcements, inquiries and other
communications.
For more information about
CESA, please contact Douglas
Crawford-Brown, CESA Faculty Advisor, or go to the Carolina
Environmental Student Alliance web site.
Net Impact
Net Impact is a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the
power of business to create a better world, including a focus on sustainable
enterprise. Originally founded as Students for Responsible Business in 1993,
Net Impact has developed from a great idea shared by a few business students
into a mission-driven network of 5,000 new leaders for better business. For
more information about Net Impact at Carolina, please contact Monica
Touesnard, Net Impact Faculty Advisor.
The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
SEAC is a student-run and student-led network of progressive organizations and
individuals whose aim is to address environmental injustices through action
and education. It defines environment as including the physical, economic, political
and cultural conditions in which we live. SEAC works to create progressive social
change on both the local and global levels.
For more information about
CESA, please contact Greg Gangi, SEAC
Faculty Advisor.
Links Between the Carolina
Campus and Other Campuses
Many of the university, college and community college campuses in the state
of North Carolina have undergraduate and graduate degree programs in environmental
science, environmental studies, or related fields. To coordinate, facilitate
and advance environmental education at the campuses, the North Carolina Alliance
of Environmental Science and Studies Programs (NCAESSP) was formed in 2000.
It consists of representatives from each of the campuses with environmental
degree programs.
Through the Alliance, the
various programs share information on the design and implementation of teaching
and research activities; conduct joint seminars, workshops and conferences;
coordinate the search for new sources of funding for environmental programs;
maintain contact with similar groups outside the state of North Carolina; establish
limited guidelines for the content and standards of environmental programs;
facilitate movement of students between the various programs; and arrange inter-institutional
exchanges of faculty and students.
For more information about the North
Carolina Association of Environmental Science and Studies Programs, please
visit their web site or contact one of the founders, CEP Director Douglas
Crawford-Brown.
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CEP Faculty Listserve
The Carolina Environmental Program has a listserve for faculty called "CEP_list."
Its purpose is twofold:
1. To provide CEP's administrative
staff with a central faculty e-mail address to which important announcements,
breaking news, regular program updates, and other information of general interest
may be posted;
and
2. To furnish members of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty who are interested in the
environment with a convenient place to post their own announcements and messages,
share ideas, and participate in group discussions.
Faculty Members may subscribe
to "CEP_list" by going to the university's Lyris
Mailing List Tool web page and following the directions provided.
For more information or
assistance in subscribing, please contact Michelle
Fox, Program
Assistant, at 919-966-9922.
Listserve Basics
Many faculty members are already familiar with how listserves work. Here are
the basics:
All e-mail messages sent
to a listserve address -- in this case, CEP_list@listserv.unc.edu
-- are distributed automatically to everyone on the list. For this reason, only
important messages of general interest should be posted.
Every e-mail message must include a concise reference to its topic on the subject
line; otherwise, it will not be delivered.
Subscribers may respond to a listserve message by replying EITHER to the whole
list OR to just the sender of the original message. Generally speaking, replies
that will not be of interest to everyone should be directed to the sender only.
For a complete, detailed
run-down on how to use a listserve (including some helpful tips on privacy and
etiquette), go to the ATN Documentation web page called Subscribing
to a List.
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