Event will 'Focus' students on global warming
Judy Wexler
Issue date: 1/31/08 Section: News
Chemistry professor Jonathan Kenny presented at the seminar. He became interested in the movement after a student involved in Focus the Nation approached him last semester.
"Faculty at Tufts are very environmentally concerned across disciplines," Kenny said, noting that there was a desire among all professors to learn from each other.
Kenny said he will give credit to students in his environmental chemistry class if they attend Thursday's event and write about it in their class journals. He has also asked students to e-mail him cell phone pictures of themselves at the event for a photo collage.
Assistant Professor of Physics Hugh Gallagher became interested in the Focus the Nation initiative after attending the faculty seminar, and he brought up climate change in his "Physics 12" class yesterday.
"I have a series of graphs that show where we have to go globally and nationally in terms of reducing our carbon emissions ... you can't look at those kinds of projections without realizing that we're totally going to have to overhaul the energy infrastructure of our country," Gallagher said.
Kenny said that within the past two years the sense of urgency on campus regarding global warming has increased. Enrollment in his environmental chemistry class jumped from 18 students in 2006 to 48 students this spring.
"I think that this is the time that Tufts can establish a role in climate change and climate justice," Kenny said.
Following tomorrow's panel discussion, a poster session will take place in the Fletcher School's Hall of Flags, where students will display their personal research on climate change. Audience members will have a chance to mingle with some of the panelists.
"Faculty at Tufts are very environmentally concerned across disciplines," Kenny said, noting that there was a desire among all professors to learn from each other.
Kenny said he will give credit to students in his environmental chemistry class if they attend Thursday's event and write about it in their class journals. He has also asked students to e-mail him cell phone pictures of themselves at the event for a photo collage.
Assistant Professor of Physics Hugh Gallagher became interested in the Focus the Nation initiative after attending the faculty seminar, and he brought up climate change in his "Physics 12" class yesterday.
"I have a series of graphs that show where we have to go globally and nationally in terms of reducing our carbon emissions ... you can't look at those kinds of projections without realizing that we're totally going to have to overhaul the energy infrastructure of our country," Gallagher said.
Kenny said that within the past two years the sense of urgency on campus regarding global warming has increased. Enrollment in his environmental chemistry class jumped from 18 students in 2006 to 48 students this spring.
"I think that this is the time that Tufts can establish a role in climate change and climate justice," Kenny said.
Following tomorrow's panel discussion, a poster session will take place in the Fletcher School's Hall of Flags, where students will display their personal research on climate change. Audience members will have a chance to mingle with some of the panelists.
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