Senior Symposium - Spring 2008
All lectures are held in Memorial Ballroom unless otherwise noted.
"A Greener Tomorrow Today"
"The earth belongs to the living. No man may by natural right oblige the lands he owns or occupies to debts greater than those that may be paid during his own lifetime. Because if he could, then the world would belong to the dead and not to the living."
Thomas Jefferson
January 21 - Jamey Pavey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Lynchburg College
"How Did We Get Here and What Do We Do Now? Society's Dependence on Fossil Fuels"
January 28 - Jeffrey Sigler, Ph.D., Climate Change Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), University of New Hampshire
"Chasing Quicksilver: The Sources, Cycling and Public Health Impacts of Mercury Pollution"
February 4 - Greg Eaton, Ph.D., Director Claytor Nature Study Center, Lynchburg College
"We're Passing This World on to Our Kids."
February 11 - no class
February 18 - Tom Shahady, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Lynchburg College
"Wetlands, Water Supply and Water Quality: The Lasting Legacy of our Built Environments"
February 25 - The Honorable Charles F. Tooley '68, former Mayor of Billings, Montana and President of Tooley Communications
12:00 Noon Presentation - Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center
"Citizenship, Leadership, and the War on Warming"
7:30 p.m. Presentation - Sydnor Auditorium
"Climate Change: Increasingly Inconvenient"
March 10 - David Ostermeier, Ph.D., Department. of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee
"Environmental Governance: Past, Present, and Future"
March 17 - Bruce Fuchs, Ph.D., Director of Office of Science Education, National Institute of Health
"Global Competitiveness, the Skills Gap, and Science Education"
March 24 - Christopher Lawrence '05, Research Associate, BCS, Incorporated, Laurel, Md.
"Technology with a Human Face"
March 31 - Bruce Coull, Ph.D., Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus, School of the Environment, University of South Carolina; President (2006-2008), U.S. Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), and Director, S.C. Lowcountry Initiative of The Center for Humans and Nature
"Moving Colleges and Universities toward Sustainability"
April 7 - Sherry Cable, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee
"Democracy at Risk: The Contested Illness Claims of Nuclear Weapons Workers"
April 14 - Amanda K. Neill, Director of the BRIT Herbarium and Co-Director, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
"The Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program at BRIT"
April 21 - Michael G. Van Ness, Executive Director, and Derrick Cunningham, President and Market Manager, Lynchburg Grows at the H.R. Schenkel Urban Farm and Environmental Education Center
"Lynchburg Grows: Growing a Sustainable Local Food System While Improving the Lives of the Disadvantaged"