Enivronment/Sustainability

Environmental Studies Internships — Apps due 2/24

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College of the Environment Internships

The College of the Environment offers internships for students to undertake research under the guidance of a Wesleyan faculty or other mentor during the Summer or Fall, 2014. The projects must relate to any of the broad themes covered by Environmental Studies. These internships are available to students across the entire University regardless of major or class-year.

The internships may be undertaken at Wesleyan or off-campus.  The summer internship will run from May 28, 2014 – July 31, 2014. Fall 2014 internship would run the term of the semester but may also include Spring 2015.

The deadline for applications is due on or before Monday, February 24, 2014, allowing us to announce internship candidates by Friday, March 7th, prior to spring break. Student applications are to be delivered to Ms. Valerie Marinelli, Administrative Assistant, College of the Environment, 284 High Street.  The student application seeks two short letters of recommendation. In addition to recommending thestudent, the faculty mentor must briefly (1-2 paragraphs) explain the project, its importance and relevance to her/his research program. Letters of recommendation may either be sent to Ms. Marinelli through campus mail or by email (pdf preferred) to vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu.

The applications, including statements by faculty, will be judged by the oversight and awards committee.  You can access the applications at www.wesleyan.edu/coe and click on Internships.

For further information, please contact Valerie Marinelli at (860) 685-3733.

Lecture: “Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands,” Wed., 9/25 7 p.m.

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“Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands:

The Past and Future of New England Forests and Farming”

               Brian Donahue                                                                            

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 – 7pm – PAC 001

Brian Donahue.jpg Brian Donahue is Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund at Brandeis University, and Environmental Historian at Harvard Forest.  He teaches courses on environmental issues, environmental history, and sustainable farming and forestry, and chairs the Environmental Studies Program.

Donahue holds a BA, MA, and PhD from the Brandeis program in the History of American Civilization.  He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a non-profit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, and serves today on the Weston Conservation Commission and the Community Preservation Committee.  For three years he was Director of Education at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas.  He sits on several other boards including the Thoreau Farm Trust and The Land Institute.

Donahue is author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Yale University Press, 1999), which was awarded the book prize from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.  He also wrote The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale Press, 2004), which won book prizes from the New England Historical Association, the Agricultural History Society, and the American Society for Environmental History.  His latest publication is American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture and the Land (Yale Press, 2011), an anthology co-edited with Edwin Hagenstein and Sara Gregg.

For more information, please contact Valerie Marinelli, 860-685-3733 or vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu

This lecture is sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Baldwin University Lectures, The Mellon Fund for Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Social Issues, The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, College of the Environment, Science in Society Program, Center for the Americas and History Department