News & Events

The first event of the Environmental Policy and Culture (EPC) program was held on Monday evening, January 31, 2005. Some thirty-seven students were there for pizza and talk. David Lentz from the Chicago Botanic Garden talked about the new joint degree program, between Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. This new program is in Plant Biology and Conservation. While it is a graduate program, it will open up many opportunities for NU undergraduates. For one thing, the new courses, beginning in the fall, will be at the 300 level, and thus will be open to undergraduates. Dr Lentz also talked about research and service opportunities for students at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

This fall the civil and environmental engineering department introduced a new course in environmental law. This course will be added to the list of approved courses for the EPC minor. It will be offered again in FQ, 2005.

Winter Quarter saw the first course offered specifically in support of the EPC program. A linkage seminar, entitled 'Exporting Environmental Policy' is being taught by Gordon Davis. Davis has recently returned from two years in Beijing, directing an American Bar Association project to help China develop modern environmental standards and laws. He previously headed programs supported by US AID to introduce sustainable development and land use in Siberia, Mongolia, and the Russian-Chinese Borderlands.