Prof. Dan Hornbach Selected as 2013 Janet Anderson Lecture Award Winner

May 2013 - Prof. Dan Hornbach was selected by the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science Executive Committee to be one of two winners of the 2013 Janet Anderson Lecture Award. Started in 2008, the award recognizes faculty members "who have a vigorous research program involving undergraduates, who are exceptional mentors for undergraduate research students, who are engaged and skilled teachers, or who create interdisciplinary research opportunities for undergraduate students." Hornbach will present the Janet Anderson lecture this fall at the Biological Sciences and Psychology Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will be held at Washington University in St. Louis. The award honors the memory of Dr. Janet Andersen who served as a teacher and scholar in the Mathematics Department at Hope College and the Midstates Consortium's Director until her untimely death in 2005.

Prof. Roopali Phadke Wins the 2013 Jack and Marty Rossmann Excellence in Teaching Award

April 2013 - Prof. Roopali Phadke has been awarded the 2013 Jack and Marty Rossmann Excellence in Teaching Award that recognizes “a faculty member who has been identified by colleagues and students as exemplifying the teaching goals of Macalester College.” Read the entire citation here.

Prof. Chris Wells Publishes Car Country: An Environmental History

January 2013 - Prof. Chris Wells has recently published a book, Car Country: An Environmental History, with the University of Washington Press. 

Prof. Chris Wells Receives Tenure

January 2012 - Congratulations to Prof. Chris Wells who has been granted tenure.  Chris is an environmental historian and started in the Environmental Studies Department in 2005.  He teaches the following courses:  American Environmental History, Consumer Nation:  American Consumer Culture in the 29th Century, Environmental Justice, U.S. Urban Enironmental History, Imperial Nature:  The United States and the Global Environment, and Car Country:  The Automobile and the American Environment.

Prof. Christie Manning Receives 2011 Macalester Sustainability Award for Curricular Innovation

November 2011 - The Education in the Classroom Task Force of the Macalester Sustainability Committee is pleased to announce that Christie Manning, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, received the 2011 Macalester Sustainability Award for Curricular Innovation. The task force unanimously selected Professor Manning for the award, which is presented to a faculty member whose curricular innovation "has most effectively influenced the way his or her students think about sustainability." Nominators discussed the multiple ways in which Professor Manning's ENVI 270: Psychology of Sustainable Behavior exemplifed the award. In addition to the honor of this recognition, Professor Manning will receive $1,000 from funds donated by Alfred N. Page.

Prof. Dan Hornbach Wins Thomas Jefferson Award

March 2011 - Congratulations to Prof. Dan Hornbach, who has received the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Award, honoring faculty members who best exemplify the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson. Hornbach was selected by a committee of past Jefferson Award winners. More

Prof. Roopali Phadke Receives Tenure

March 2011 - Congratulations to Prof. Roopali Phadke who has received tenure. Roopali started in the Environmental Studies Department in 2005 and teaches the following courses: Environmental Politics and Policy, Water and Power, Science and Citizenship, Sustainable Development and the Global Future, and Environmental Studies Leadership Seminar. More