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Upcoming Dissertation Defenses

Candidate: Larissa Mark
Title: Moderating Influence Of Uncertainty On The Adoption Of Green Building Practices - The Determinants Of Institutionalization Of Green Building Practices In The Residential Construction Industry
Date: July 9, 2012
Location: DK 3006 (Biology Conference Room)
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Upcoming Master's Defenses

Candidate: Sean R. Tracy
Title: Understanding Conservation: A Study Of Student Attitudes And Understanding Of The Effects Of Human Activities On Global Ecosystems
Date: May 15, 2012
Location: Research Hall, Room 301
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm

News items (archived from the home page)

Congratulations to our ESP sustainability enthusiasts! Dr. Changwoo Ahn, Susan Keltner (PhD candidate) and Maheen Aziz (undergrad) were all awarded Patriot Green Fund grants for their sustainability projects. Read the Gazette article.

Mason has been named a Virginia Sea Grant Institution. VASG is also accepting applications from PhD students for the new Graduate Research Fellowships in 2012.

The current issue of Greenovation, ESP department's newsletter is the Fall 2011 issue. It can be downloaded here. Previous issues of Greenovation are archived here.

Read the article in The Washington Post featuring ESP's wetland ecologist Dr. Changwoo Ahn (Post Local, August 5, 2011).

A new book by Dr. Peter Balint et al. entitled Wicked Environmental Problems: Managing Uncertainty and Conflict has just been published.

Dr. Susan Crate has a feature article published in the May 2011 issue of Natural History.

Read about the Bhattarais. First they earned bachelor’s degrees together, then master’s degrees. Now Sameer and Smriti Bhattarai are both getting PhDs in environmental science and policy.

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