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Environmental Studies Senior Seminar 2003: Invasive Species, Kyle Hegamyer, Byron Deluke, Allyson Ladley, Lucas Nagy, Brian Webb, Steve Nash, Matthew Rose
Environmental Studies Senior Seminar 2003: Invasive Species, Kyle Hegamyer, Byron Deluke, Allyson Ladley, Lucas Nagy, Brian Webb, Steve Nash, Matthew Rose
Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects
The class of 2003 was the first to graduate with Environmental Studies degrees from the University of Richmond. At that time, the Senior Seminar was a two-semester class, ENVR 391 and 392. It was taught by a pair of professors; Stephen P. Nash, Journalism, and Peter D. Smallwood, Biology. Students chose the problem of invasive species for their focus. With tremendous help from the staff of the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and from Delegate James Dillard, the students proposed legislation to help Virginia deal with this environmental problem. Students wrote opinion pieces for local papers throughout Virginia in …
Reducing Automobile Emissions In Southern California: The Dance Of Public Policies And Technological Fixes, Rudi Volti
Reducing Automobile Emissions In Southern California: The Dance Of Public Policies And Technological Fixes, Rudi Volti
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
For many years I have taught at a small liberal arts college in Southern California. When first-year students arrived at the college in the early 1970s, they settled into the usual things that occupy freshmen. A few weeks would go by, and then they would make a remarkable discovery: tall mountains would appear to the north as autumn weather dissipated the heavy blanket of smog that had obscured them. Today, the air is not perfectly clear in September, but students are aware of the mountains from the day they move into the dormitories. The region's partial victory over smog illustrates …