Smith College
Environmental Science & Policy News
SCAMP: What it Means for the College and for the World
By Tara Noyes ‘12
SPRING 2010
Inside this issue:
CEEDS:
What’s That About?
2
Climate Wise Women:
A Conversation on
Global Women’s
Response to Climate
Change
3
New Tricks:
ES&P Faculty On
Sabbatical
4
Director’s Corner
5
Upcoming Events and 8
Meet the ES&P Team!
faculty, staff, and students, the college, and direct stu“As we grapple institutionally
have been putting together dent and academic participawith unfolding knowledge about
Smith’s plan: the Sustainability tion in making Smith a
climate change, we are giving our
students the experience of shaping and Climate Action Manage- greener place and Smithies
ment Plan, or SCAMP. The more sustainability savvy.
and observing the evolution of
final draft of SCAMP has just
their college as it addresses the
amila Fierro ’10
been published this March.
major issue of this century. I am
is one of the
pleased to submit this
four student memcollaborative and
bers of the CoS who
evolving plan develcontributed to the
oped with the help
creation of SCAMP.
and support of so
She said that the
many members of our
effort was truly
campus community.
collaborative and
It will guide us
included input from
through years of evolvstudents and profesing technologies and
sors whose studies
new challenges that
incorporated ways to
we hope to assess and
reduce Smith’s
address wisely on
carbon footprint.
behalf of our local,
Camila believes that
national, and inter- One of the many charts documenting Smith’s current resource
the most important
use, as illustrated in the SCAMP.
national communieffect of SCAMP will
ties.”
he SCAMP lays out five be the increased awareness
- President Carol T. Christ, in
focus areas for the Col- of Smith’s current energy
her cover letter to the College’s
lege to work on in its goal of policies. “Smith can become
Sustainability and Climate
becoming a more environmen- carbon neutral just by paying
Action Management Plan.
tally friendly institution. These money, but that's really not
n November of 2007, are: water, transportation, ma- the point; hopefully by
Smith College president terial use and waste manage- spreading awareness and
Christ signed the American ment, landscape ecology, en- educating [members of]the
College and University Presi- ergy and buildings. Each of campus [community] we can
dent’s Climate Commitment, these sections includes detailed start to re-adjust our behavadding Smith to the hun- descriptions of our recent past iors- whether that be taking
dreds of American Colleges and present; specific, timed shorter showers or not going
and Universities to-date that goals for the future; and meth- to Grab-N-Go.” Camila says
have pledged to strive for ods for achieving those goals. following the plan will lead
climate neutrality. Included The next two sections, Climate to the fulfillment of Presiin this agreement is a term Action, and Academic Integra- dent Christ’s agreement with
that requires a full scale de- tion and Co-Curricular Con- the ACUPCC and will save
tailed plan to reach this goal. nections, elaborate more on the college money in the
For the past two years, the goals and how they will be long-run, but ideally, and
Smith’s Committee on Sus- achieved, including the bene- most importantly, it will
tainability (CoS), made up of fits (particularly financial) to
C
T
The Environmental Science &
Policy Program Offices are
located in Bass Hall:
Joanne Benkley, Coordinator
ES&P Program
Room 107
x 3951
Jon Caris, Coordinator
Spatial Analysis Lab
Room 109
x 3042
The Spatial Analysis Lab
Room 103
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CEEDS: What’s That About?
By Andrew Guswa, Director
Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS)
They call it a cloud forest, but in June
the rain in Monteverde, Costa Rica
comes down hard. The roar of 125
mm/hr on a metal roof makes conversation nearly impossible, and rivers take
on the hue of café con leche as silt
washes in from the dirt road. Four
Smith students work with the local
community to devise and design effective means of managing both water
quality and water quantity in this ecotourist destination. Tradeoffs between
resource development and conservation are not easy, and decisions require
an integrated understanding of language, ecology, economics, hydrology,
health, and culture.
This is what CEEDS is about.
Building on a strong tradition of
women’s leadership at Smith, the
Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability brings
together faculty, staff, and students
from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and engineering to
address environmental questions and
challenges. Our mission is to graduate
women who excel at integrating knowledge to
support environmental decisions and actions.
This mission, and CEEDS itself, is
intended to complement and enhance
the wide range of curricular pathways
that students can choose from to study
the environment at Smith, such as sociology, engineering, biology, government, geosciences, landscape studies,
and environmental science and policy.
CEEDS is about linking knowledge
across the liberal arts and critically
applying this knowledge to real-world
solutions.
In pursuit of these goals, the activities
of the Center will be directed toward
* Enhancing the curriculum
* Sponsoring integrative environmental
projects
* Using the campus as a teaching model
* Integrating environmental resources
and information
Right now, we are just getting started.
Thanks to a generous gift from Jill Ker
Conway to support our initial efforts, we
are moving ahead with some exciting
programs, and we have ideas for many
more.
Enhancing the Curriculum
We have incredible faculty at Smith who
are deeply committed to student learning. To increase the environmental literacy of all Smith students, CEEDS will
Sponsoring Integrative Environmental Projects
Another key activity of the Center will
be to sponsor integrative projects that
put students on the front lines of environmental decisions and action. For
example, faculty and students from
engineering, psychology, and economics, along with staff from Facilities
Management, might take on the
challenge of transportation among the
Five Colleges. Another project might
focus on water in China, calling upon
biology, geology, government, and East
Asian studies. A project on sustainable
agriculture may link faculty and students from Smith with those from
Hampshire College. In all cases, the
emphasis will be on integrating knowledge in support of decisions and action.
Using the Campus as a Model
support the faculty to bring environmental concepts and context to a wide
variety of courses. Perhaps a first-year
seminar on observation will incorporate
real-time meteorological data from Paradise Pond. An anthropology course on
African pastoralism could use satellite
imagery to determine the distribution of
vegetation in Kenya. A plant ecology
course may delve into the land-use
history of the Pioneer Valley. CEEDS
will provide financial, human, and infrastructure resources to support our faculty and enhance our curriculum.
The beauty of Smith’s campus is well
known, and our buildings, grounds, and
infrastructure present multiple opportunities to link our campus and operations with our academic efforts. The
Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field
Station comprises 200 acres of mixed
farmland and woodland just twelve
miles north of campus. As a project for
Landscape Studies, Smith students
designed an interpretive trail network
that highlights the history and ecology
of the site; we look forward to constructing these trails and developing
programming for field-based education,
environmental research, and lowimpact recreation. On our main campus, Facilities Management is embarking on a metering project that will
reveal the heat and electricity use of
each building on campus, and Smith’s
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The Environmental Science and Policy Program is an interdisciplinary program that ties together the natural sciences,
humanities, and social sciences with a faculty steering committee from across these disciplines. Each semester, the ES&P
program hosts a variety of environmentally related events. Visit www.smith.edu/green for a calendar of events.
SPRING 2010
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Director’s Corner
By L. David Smith, Director
Environmental Science & Policy Program
F
T
inally! After more than three years of planning and negotiation, Smith College will have a MAJOR in Environmental
Science and Policy (ES&P) beginning this fall 2010.
he timing is opportune for at least three reasons. First, the need for an environmentally literate citizenry has never been
greater. If we are to tackle the pressing environmental issues that threaten to extinguish many life forms and degrade
our own existence, we must educate this and future generations to see the planet and its life support systems as an interconnected functioning whole. Second, an emerging ‘green’ economy will demand a knowledgeable workforce with appropriate
skill sets that can be supplied by an ES&P major. Third, the creation of a major in ES&P coincides with the establishment of
the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS). These two entities, in combination with
other environmental curricula and initiatives at Smith and in the Five Colleges, will provide students with extraordinary opportunities to develop their environmental interests and passions.
W
hat will a major in ES&P encompass? Webster’s defines ‘environment’ as ‘the circumstances, objects or conditions by
which one is surrounded’, so perhaps a better question is what would it not? The design of the major will, in fact,
allow students to approach the environment from many directions. What distinguishes this major from others is its focus on
integration and skill building. Rather than teach within traditional disciplinary
Our hope is that students who
silos, our goals are to prepare our students to transcend disciplinary
boundaries, to combine analytical and communications skills with a wellpursue this major will graduate
rounded understanding of the environment, and to translate this knowledge ready to fill positions in governinto meaningful action and innovative solutions. We will accomplish these
goals, in part, by offering four new ‘Integration Courses’, which will be co- mental and non-governmental ortaught by existing faculty from the natural and social sciences and humani- ganizations, education, and busities, and by a faculty member with interdisciplinary training. Additional in- nesses and will be able to provide
troductory courses in the natural and social sciences and statistics will intro- critically needed environmental
duce students to fundamental aspects of disciplines important to underperspectives in their careers and to
standing human-environment interactions. Finally, our majors will gain
depth of knowledge in a particular environmental area through a sequence their communities.
of focused electives chosen in consultation with an adviser.
T
he new major is not for the faint of heart. It requires 14 courses, which, together, will provide students with a breadth
and depth of understanding of human societies, natural systems, and their complex interface. The major demands that
students be conversant in both the natural sciences and social sciences/humanities, in quantitative and qualitative ways of
knowing, and in problem seeking and problem solving. However, a great deal of flexibility also exists, so that a student can
focus on a particular topic that interests her. Our hope is that students who pursue this major will graduate ready to fill positions in governmental and non-governmental organizations, education, and businesses and will be able to provide critically
needed environmental perspectives in their careers and to their communities.
I
encourage students interested in the ES&P major to contact the ES&P Program Director
or Coordinator or members of Advisory Committee (see the Program website at
http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/esp). You can find a complete description of
the new major in the 2010-2011 Course Catalogue and on the Program website. We will do
our best to accommodate current students wishing to complete an ES&P major who have
taken a sufficient number of appropriate courses.
David Smith is Associate Professor in Biological Sciences and the Director of the Environmental Science and
Policy Program, which includes both the Environmental Science and Policy major and minor, and a minor in
Marine Science and Policy.
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New Tricks: What ES&P Professors on Sabbatical are Doing
During Their Time Off Campus
By: Alana Miller ‘10
T
hree Environmental Science and Policy faculty have been on sabbatical this academic year and though each pursued a
different topic, the overarching theme of their work was to learn something completely new. Each of these three faculty
believe it is important to reach beyond their discipline of expertise and explore the ways in which the environment is implicated in other aspects of society, from investment and finance, to scientific findings, to policy work - and that is just what
they did.
Leslie King, Associate Professor, Sociology
Most of Professor King’s research focuses on population-related topics, but she more recently became
interested in the environmental, social and political implications of investing. She explains that
people’s investments frequently are not in accord with their social and political beliefs. King used her
sabbatical to audit courses at Columbia University and volunteer for the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility in New York City. The center works to promote shareholder power by proposing
shareholder resolutions on various social and environmental issues. Professor King spent most of her
time with the center investigating different theories of investment and their political ramifications.
Professor King said this was work she was interested in but initially didn’t know what she would do with her experience and
findings. Now she has directed her interests into a paper on diverse groups working to engage shareholders in the governance of corporations. Her focus is not just on individual investors but on institutional investors, which make up nearly 70%
of all investment. She explains that there is a whole social movement working to get shareholders involved in the governance
and decision-making of corporations. Many people are interested in where their money is going and are pushing to make sure
it supports social justice and the environment; she has found a broad network nationwide and a lot of things happening here
in the Valley as well. Professor King will present her paper at a conference in Paris in May of this year.
Greg White, Professor of Government
Professor Greg White is spending his sabbatical time in New York City, studying at Columbia
University. White received a prestigious grant from the Mellon Foundation, called New Directions,
which is designed to support social science faculty who wish to study outside of their discipline.
White says he was lucky to get this opportunity to retrain in a new field, and hoped to expand his
knowledge of the natural science behind climate change. He explains that many studies of migration politics, his area of expertise, assert that migration is being pushed by climate change. Displaced people around the world are called climate refugees, climatic migrants, or even have received the co-opted term “climigrants”. Organizations and policy makers frequently assert this
claim, with refugee numbers ranging from over a billion in the next few decades to naysayers refuting any evidence of climate change. White saw it important to examine just how robust the
figure of climate refugees was, based on natural science, and to what extent the data prove that it is climate pushing people to
new regions, as opposed to war or politics or some other issue.
Columbia University has great resources in its Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and across the river at the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. This amazing research center has a strong network of people who teach and study at
Columbia, which has enhanced Professor White’s experience. He feels it has been really important to better understand
climate science, and hopes to bring his knowledge back to classes at Smith, especially within the new
ES&P major. White is also currently working on a proposal for a first year seminar on natural
science and public policy, which would explore some of what he has been working on, including the
media, political and social implications of scientific findings.
Shizuka Hseih, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
An experimental physical chemist, Shizuka Hsieh left Smith for a year to get her first look at policy,
spending a year in Washington D.C. She is doing a fellowship through AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in a program self-described to “plug the power of science
into public policy”. It includes Ph.D. scientists at all levels and receives rave reviews from Professor
Hsieh, who encourages all Smith science majors to keep it in mind for the future. (Continued on page 6)
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Climate Wise Women: A Conversation on Global Women’s
Response to Climate Change
By Tara Noyes ‘12
O
n September 23, 2009, a panel
discussion called ‘Global Women
Take Action on Climate Change’ was
held in New York City. The panel,
presented to a group of journalists and
other VIPs and scheduled to coincide
with the UN General Assembly High
Level Event on Climate Change, was
comprised of four women activists from
around the world- from Uganda to the
Carteret and Cook Islands to Biloxi,
Mississippi, whose communities are
already being affected by climate change.
Buoyed by the response of the fall event
the women decided they couldn’t wait
for politicians and governmental negotiators to get it right on climate change.
They want straight talk on what climate
change is doing to women, children,
families and communities around the
world now. Thus the Climate Wise
Women (CW2) project was born. The
women began a world tour in early April
in the Americas, and with the help of
Smith students recruited by the Center
for the Environment, Ecological Design,
and Sustainability, panel events are
scheduled to take place at 13 colleges,
universities, and other venues throughout the U.S. The group will also visit
Toronto, Canada and Mexico City, Mexico. CW2 will continue to bring the
climate change conversation to Asia and
Europe later this year. On Monday,
April 12th, the group came to Smith
College where they spoke at an evening
event in the Weinstein Auditorium in
Wright Hall.
The Smith panel was quite a moving
event. For many, if not most of the
members of the audience, this was the
first time they had heard firsthand
accounts of how climate change is
already affecting people around the
world. It was powerful to hear the
personal narratives of women who had
lost everything, some multiple times, to
storms, drought or flooding, who,
together with their families and communities, are straining to survive and
maintain their way of life. It was powerful to hear the women’s commitment
to helping themselves and their
communities, and it was powerful to
hear their call that we each step up to
the plate and think of the others in the
world who suffer the consequences of
many of our day to day decisions and
actions– and to think of them and then
decide to act more thoughtfully, to
consume less, to engage our politicians,
and to choose to help stop climate
change.
“I'm very excited and passionate about
the panel of women I'm working for.
I believe adamantly in their environmental cause and local efforts and I'm
very humbled by my work to help them
engage with other women, to share their
stories and remarkable experiences.”
-Mary Darby ‘10
In addition to founding panelists Constance Okollet of Uganda, Ulamila
Wragg of the Cook Islands, and Sharon
Hanshaw of Mississippi, the Smith
event welcomed two local women to
the discussion, Giovanna Di Chiro and
Tina Clarke. Di Chiro is a Research
Associate in the Environmental Studies
Department at Mount Holyoke College. She is a writer and editor of works
involving environmental science and
justice. She also co-founded the Pioneer Valley Community Environmental
Justice Coalition, which works with
low-income communities in Western
Massachusetts to address environ-
mental health issues in their communities. Clarke has been an environmental
activist and leader in some form or another for more than 25 years. She has
worked for GreenPeace and Clean Water Action among others. She is
currently focused on positive action in
response to climate change, and is a
U. S. Trainer for the international Transition Towns movement. She and her
partner live in an award winning, zero
carbon footprint house in Montague,
MA. The panel was moderated by Erin
Ailworth of the Boston Globe. The
keynote speaker for the panel was Nia
Robinson, Director, Environmental
Justice and Climate Change Initiative.
Senior Mary Darby is one of six Smith
students who worked with CW2 project manager Tracy Mann, a New Yorkbased public relations professional, to
put the Americas tour together. She
says of her experience: “Working on
this project is something I'm very
proud of. Tracy has given us wide discretion on choosing the panelists we
would most like to engage, as well as
the institutions we'd most like to host
[the event]. I've really never had
the opportunity to work on a project of
this scale in this sort of substantive
way. It's really given me a whole new
insight into my talents and skills. ...I'm
very excited and passionate about the
panel of women I'm working for. I believe adamantly in their environmental
cause and local efforts and I'm very
humbled by my work to help them engage with other women, to share their
stories and remarkable experiences.”
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Senior Spotlight: Elisabeth Wolfe
By: Alana Miller ‘10
One of the greatest features of a liberal
arts education is the ability students have
to explore their interests- be it via unique
internship opportunities, academic subjects or extracurricular activities. When it
comes to the realm of sustainability,
senior Elisabeth Wolfe has taken advantage of almost all available avenues
through on-campus orgs, work-study, and
internships. Her involvement has greatly
shaped Smith's environmental movement
and her story provides an interesting look
at Smith's continual development and
offers insight into the many ways students can plug in to be the change in
their community.
Academically, Elisabeth is a selfdesigned Environmental Biology and
Sustainable Development major, with a
focus on U.S. agriculture. She is currently busy writing a senior thesis on the
environmental history of Smith College
titled “Sustaining Smith: An environmental history of food at Smith College
1875-2010.” She says it has been “totally
amazing to self design” but is glad that
with the launch of the new major more
students will be able to study environmental science and policy in depth.
Overall, Elisabeth is most proud of her
collaborative work on the Community
Garden. She is still amazed by the incredible transformation of an abanWhen Elisabeth started at Smith she
planned to major in government, though doned lot that no one cared about, into
a productive, beautiful community
she didn't ever end up taking any Gov
classes. Instead, she was drawn to courses space. Currently the garden is all raised
in other disciplines, largely related to food beds, a great example of successful urand sustainability. After taking First Year ban gardening on a lot condemned for
lead contamination. With pride, ElisaSeminar (FYS) 147 The Science and Politics
beth tells how Bob Dombkowski of
of Food, Water and Energy, Elisabeth was
Grounds told her that it is "the best its
instrumental in bringing a recommendaever looked," even before the space was
tion forward to ban bottled water use at
abandoned. Group members still hope
Smith events; a recommendation later
to move the garden to a more central
adopted by the college. During her first
location on campus in order to engage
two years at Smith, Elisabeth worked to
more Smith community members.
promote waste reduction in campus
houses, as both an Earth and a Recycling
A word of advice from this experienced
Rep -now called Sustainability Reps. She
senior? “Get paid for what you’re pasalso led the Bike Kitchen, a student
sionate about!” Elisabeth was the first
organization dedicated to promoting
employee hired by Dano Weisbord,
bicycle use, and headed the effort to
Smith’s Environmental Sustainability
establish a community garden.
Sabbatical (Continued from page
4)
While she originally imagined being placed in a federal office
dealing with environmental issues closer to her research field
of atmospheric chemistry, Professor Hsieh instead took an
opportunity in a policy office within the Office of Solid
Waste and Emergency Response at the Environmental Protection Agency. She has focused primarily on two issues:
climate change and environmental justice. In the area of climate change, Hsieh has been looking at how what we consume and how we dispose of waste contribute to greenhouse
gas emissions. On the environmental justice side, Professor
Director and now is paid to run
Green Team, an org on campus with
student, faculty, staff and administrative members. Elisabeth encourages
all students, especially underclassmen, to be active and to participate.
She explains that her work on a local
level has been incredibly gratifying. It
feels great to know that she personally has made a big difference in the
projects she has worked on and has
seen a lot of change.
In Elisabeth’s four years on campus,
she says Smith has made great strides
in the area of sustainability. But she
maintains that Smith could go much
further and has a lot to develop still.
She sees great potential for student
leadership and many avenues where
students can affect lasting change.
Hsieh has been interested in waste incineration and disposal
in relation to their impact on communities. Since both climate
change and environmental justice are new priorities under the
Obama administration, Hsieh finds this a particularly exciting
year to be in D.C., and she is energized through working with
lots of cool and very busy people.
Overall, Hsieh seeks to use this opportunity, especially in light
of the new ES&P major, to frame her scientific knowledge
with policy implications and to see how to better bring science into the policy room. She describes her experience as
diving head first into things she hasn’t done before, and really
getting a lot out of it.
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SCAMP (Continued from page 1)
begin to change the way all of Smith and its surrounding community
members think and act with regards to combating climate change.
F
inally, when asked what individual members of the Smith community can do to help achieve our goals, Camila had the following recommendations: “Individuals can use less water, especially hot
water, use less paper, only take Grab and Go meals when necessary.
Basically, be more aware of how you consume energy and try and be
more efficient. Also, there's always Green Team which meets every
other Thursday during lunch in the Campus Center!”
P
resident Christ begins her cover letter to SCAMP with the
following statement: “In ways I might not have predicted even
five years ago, a commitment to resource stewardship and preservation has emerged as a powerful organizing principle in Smith College’s
operational and curricular development and a vivid manifestation of
the college’s responsibilities to the nation and the world.” This statement sums up the main goal of SCAMP. Although we can and will
make significant changes right here that will have a positive impact on
the earth, there is only so much one institution can do. The greatest
goal is to instill in all Smithies the desire and means to live greener,
more thoughtfully, wherever they may go after graduation and thus
have a greater positive impact in the world at large.
CW2 (Continued from page 5)
CW2’s appearance at Smith was made possible through the support of
the Smith College Centers for Engagement, Learning, and Leadership:
the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability;
the Global Studies Center; the Center for Community Collaboration;
and the Center for Work and Life.
NEWS FLASH!
Sleep mode saves even more
than we thought!
Meghan Smith, a student in Professor Nat
Fortune's PHY 100 Solar Energy and Sustainability course recently compared the power
draw of her laptop with and without having
her power-management "sleep" settings configured to:
Turn off the display after several minutes of
inactivity, and
Put the hard drive into standby mode after 3060 minutes of inactivity.
She measured a savings of 1.16 kWh per day,
which translates to...
1.16 kWh/day * 250 days/year * 2600 students
= 754,000 kWh.
That's worth more than $120,000!
For instructions on setting your own
computer display to automatically switch to
sleep mode (instead of a power-wasting
screen saver) after a period of inactivity, see:
www.smith.edu/its/estar
For more information on the Climate Wise Women project, including
panelist bios, visit their website at www.climatewisewomen.org.
CEEDS (Continued from page 2)
recent adoption of a sustainability plan offers a great opportunity for student projects and learning as the College pursues its
twenty-year path to carbon neutrality.
Integrating Environmental Resources and Information
Smith possesses tremendous resources relevant to the study of the built and natural environment, including the Ada and
Archibald MacLeish Field Station, the Botanic Garden, and the Spatial Analysis Lab. As a Center – both virtual and physical
– we will help connect these resources for students, faculty, and staff. Plans are currently in the works to renovate Wright
Hall as the home for not only CEEDS, but also the Center for Community Collaboration and the Global Studies Center. The
co-location of these centers will bring an exciting energy to our efforts, and we hope our new space will cultivate inventive
thinking, multidisciplinary collaboration, and a strong sense of community.
The Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability presents an exciting opportunity for Smith and our
communities, and we welcome your comments, questions, and involvement. Please visit www.smith.edu/green for more
information.
Upcoming Environmental Science & Policy Events...
April 15- Climate Policy: Getting to the 2050 Reductions
with Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator of the Office
of Air and Radiation, U.S. EPA
12:00 PM, Neilson Browsing Room
April 20– EVS 300 Project Presentations I: 12:15 PM,
Dewey Common Room
The Environmental Science and Policy Program
is an interdisciplinary program that ties together the
natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences with a
faculty steering committee from across these disciplines.
Each semester, the ES&P program hosts a variety of
events, ranging from film screenings to lectures.
Who’s Involved in the Program?
April 27- Sustaining Smith: An Environmental History of Food at
Smith College 1875-2010– An ES&P Senior Thesis Presentation by Elisabeth Wolfe ‘10
12:00PM, Campus Center room 205
April 27– EVS 300 Project Presentations II: 12:30PM,
Campus Center room 205
For regular info about environmentally related events on
campus please visit: www.smith/edu/green and click on the
events link.
Sign up for the ES&P
e-mail listserv to get
regular information about
environmental events,
internships, post-Smith
opportunities and more!
Contact us at
enviro@smith.edu!
Director: L. David Smith (Biological Sciences)
Program Coordinator: Joanne Benkley
Spatial Analysis Lab Coordinator: Jon Caris
Steering Committee/ Faculty Advisers:
Donald Baumer (Government)
Nathanael Fortune (Physics)
Elliot Fratkin (Anthropology)
Andrew Guswa (Engineering)
Virginia Hayssen (Biological Sciences)
Shizuka Hsieh (Chemistry)
Michelle Joffroy (Spanish and Portuguese)
Leslie King (Sociology)
David Newbury (History)
Robert Newton (Geosciencs)
Paulette Peckol (Biological Sciences)
Jeffry Ramsey (Philosophy)
Amy Rhodes (Geosciences)
Susan Stratton Sayre (Economics)
Paul Voss (Engineering)
Gregory White (Government)
We’d love to hear from you!
Please send comments and contributions to enviro@smith.edu
Environmental Science and Policy Program
Smith College
Bass Hall 107
Tel: 413-585-3951
TO: