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AN PROGRAM UPDATE 2019 ANNUAL REVIEW

The Time, and the Team, for Urgent Environmental Work By Mark Carey, ENVS Program Director ReNews Our recent weeks with Covid-19 have upended our world. The pandemic is affecting everyone and creating far-reaching difficulties. The circumstances remind us to treasure those close to us, to rely on our communities, to take nothing for granted, and to be empathetic and compassionate with those suffering on multiple levels right now. This time also reminds us just how vital it is to study relationships between people and our environment—our very survival hinges on it. We need environmental research, and we need to value our experts who have devoted their lives to understanding these processes and issues. This time also demonstrates profoundly that not everyone is affected the same, as some groups are more deeply affected by the disease, by poverty or job loss, by limited access to health care, and by ever-increasing pollution and . We thus need environmental research, too, to reveal these patterns and address far-reaching inequalities.

Given the pandemic, it may seem like an odd time to reflect on what has been happening in the Environmental Studies Program. But as I just said above, we need the precise kinds of environmental Mark Carey research, teaching, and learning that is happening now in ENVS—from the environmental sciences to [email protected] . So despite the health crisis, it is still a good time to reflect on accomplishments from the previous year (2019), as we do every spring. We need some good news anyway, some uplifting In This Issue stories, some reminders about the incredible work our students, faculty, and staff are doing. Urgent Work 1 2019 Honor Roll 2 We have a tremendous team of accomplished ENVS faculty, students, and staff—who have demonstrated Core Faculty remarkable accomplishments this past year. ENVS Professor Peg Boulay won one of the university's most Achievements 2 distinguished teaching awards for faculty, while Environmental Studies Ph.D. candidate Dan Shtob won the university's top teaching award for graduate students. Professor Sarah Wald (ENVS Associate Director and Graduate Student Achievements 4 professor of ENVS and English) and Professor David Sutherland (ENVS and Earth Sciences) won the UO's most distinguished all-around award for faculty: the Fund for Faculty Excellence. Other ENVS faculty won ELP 5 national awards for lifetime achievements in their professions, including Professors Kari Norgaard (ENVS Special Thanks 7 and Sociology), Josh Roering (ENVS and Earth Sciences), and Ron Mitchell (ENVS and Political Science). But Tribal Climate these are just some highlights—as the subsequent pages in this issue illustrate. Keep reading! Change Project 8 Center for Last Fall, we welcomed Professor Stacy Alaimo (ENVS and English), who joins us now as a core faculty Environmental Futures 9 member. And in January we welcomed Sophie Bybee as the new Undergraduate Coordinator for ENVS. Sophie joins an incredible staff in ENVS who make terrific, tireless, and enduring contributions to the ENVS Common Reading 9 mission, including Monica Guy, Nathan Adams, and Alison Mildrexler. Food Studies Update 10 Update: SAIL 11 I am proud to be working with this amazing team doing vital environmental work. Let's keep up the strong work we need to make the planet a better, safer, healthier, and more just place to live sustainably. As our ENVS by the numbers 12 students continue to learn, and as they graduate and look for jobs amidst wild unemployment rates and global uncertainty, it is all the more important to support our and our work. Thank you.

Sincerely,

envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 2019 ENVS Honor Roll ENVS Core Faculty Achievements Baltimore Community Foundation

Britney VanCitters '14 Stacy Alaimo Editor of special issue of Configurations: A Journal of , Science, and Technology on “Science Cameron Rico '18 Studies and the Blue ,” 27.4 Fall 2019. Catherine and F. Robert Miller '64 Brendan Bohannan Christina and Named as the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. The prestigious Joseph Mauthe appointment recognizes a faculty member who has both a distinguished research profile and a deep commitment to undergraduate education. Claudette Naylor Donna '72, MS '76 Peg Boulay and Leo Bauer Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, given to a faculty Eric Jones '92 member who has demonstrated long-standing excellence in teaching, and who has contributed significantly to student learning at the undergraduate and graduate level. Julie Polhemus MS '02 and Christopher Jones MS '07 Mark Carey Karen George Faculty Research Mentor Award (nominated by students), Center for Undergraduate Research and Marta Bennett Engagement, University of Oregon, 2019.

Paige Book '17 Contributing Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, 2019. Patricia McDowell and Patrick Bartlein Williams Fund Instructional Grant for collaborative/team teaching on "Arctic Icebergs: Piloting a Multidisciplinary, Problem-Solving Pedagogy," with Dave Sutherland (ENVS and Earth Sciences) Robert and Catherine Miller and Casey Shoop (Clark Honors College), 2019-2020. Charitable Foundation

Ronald Lauren Hallett Sanderson '69, MEd '70 Received funding for a three-meeting synthesis working group through the German Centre of I Stephen Ellis MBA '87 Integrative Research (iDiv) on “Storation: Applying coexistence theory to restoration and adaptive management”. Suzanne and Robert Price Published the first experimental test of fluctuation-dependent species coexistence interrestrial systems: Hallett, L. M., L. G. Shoemaker, C. T. White, K. N. Suding. 2019. Rainfall variability maintains grass-forb coexistence. Ecology Letters 22: 1658-1667. You can support our engaged learning and Working toward a $500,000 cooperative agreement with the USDA Agricultural Research Service research community to assess causal factors of exotic annual grass invasion across the Great Basin sagebrush through student . scholarships, graduate research and travel to Ron Mitchell conferences, equipment purchases, or renowned Publication: Ronald B. Mitchell and R. Charli Carpenter, “Norms for the earth: changing the climate speakers. on ‘climate change’” Journal of Global Security Studies. 4:4 (October 2019), 413-429. To donate, contact Mark Nicolae Morar Carey (carey@uoregon. edu) or the UO Foundation Publication: Morar, N. & Bohannan, B. 2019. “The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Micro- biome”, (uofoundation.org) The Quarterly Review of Biology, 94(2):149-175. This publication has generated the following public attention: Press coverage: Around the O, "UO researchers urge changes in the language of the microbiome" Interview on Jefferson Public radio – "Curious: how we talk about the microbiome"

2 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2019 Annual Review Kari Norgaard Lucas Silva Book published: Salmon and Acorns SALMON & Report published: Silva L.C.R., Wood M., et al. (2020) National Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature Science Foundation (NSF) Landscape Carbon Sequestration and Social Action, Rutgers University ACORNS for Atmospheric Recovery White Paper: A Perspective on Press, 2019. FEED OUR Convergence to Accelerate Carbon Sequestration. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Report published: Norgaard, Kari Marie PEOPLE and William Tripp (Lead coordinating Article published: Gigurere-Croteau, Boucher E, Silva L.C.R. authors) “Karuk Climate Adaptation COLONIALISM, NATURE & et al. (2019) North America’s oldest boreal trees are more SOCIAL ACTION Plan,” 2019, Karuk Tribe. efficient water users due to increased [CO2], but do not grow

KARI MARIE NORGAARD Awarded the Sociology of Emotions faster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science February Recent Contribution Award, Sociology 12, 2019 116 (7) 2749-2754; first published January 28, 2019. of Emotions Section, American Sociological Association. Bomfim B., Silva L.C.R., et al (2019) Interactive effects of land- Awarded the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award, use change and topography on asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in Section of American Sociological the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Biogeochemistry. Association. University of Oregon Award for Research, which recognizes a UO researcher whose research has made Kory Russell significant contributions to human knowledge related to sustainability. Awarded the Environmental Protection Agency People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design , with student team for the project “Sanitary Green Space: Dave Sutherland a closed-looped sanitation system for growing green Awarded Williams Council funds to teach a new interdisciplinary communities”. course on Arctic icebergs as an example of a wicked Student Team awarded the best design from the both the environmental problem, with Mark Carey (ENVS/Honors College) Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute for Chemical and Casey Shoop (Honors College). Engineers at the 2019 TechConnect Expo in Boston. Led a paper published in Science in July 2019 on submarine Awarded the American Society of Landscape Architects melting at LeConte Glacier in southeast Alaska. Student Award of Excellence for Residential Design. Co-PI on new NOAA grant with Scott Bridgham (ENVS, BIO) to look Awarded the 2019 University of Oregon Town and Gown at carbon, sea level rise, and restoration in Coos Bay, Oregon. Sustainability Award as well as a University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, given to the UO's top faculty Foundation’s Trustee Excellence Fund for $30,000 for the who have a record of distinction in their quality of scholarship initiative "Landscape for Humanity". and creative accomplishment, contribution to their respective field, and contribution to the university. Emily Scott Faculty Research Award, Andrew W. Mellon/Center for Sarah Wald Environmental Futures. Book published: Latinx Sustainability Faculty Fellowship, University of Oregon (to Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and support community engagement in teaching). the Decolonial, co-edited with David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Book published: Viscosity: Mobilizing Materialities. Minneapolis: Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University University of Minneapolis Dept. of Architecture, 2019. Edited Press, November 2019. with Ozayr Saloojee and Karen Lutsky. Report published: “Teaching Guide: Chapter published: “Leaky Design for a Broken Present.” In Broken Under the Feet of Jesus,” UO Common Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, ed. Paola Antonelli, 50-56. Reading Program, Faculty Advisor. Milan: La Triennale di Milano and Electra, 2019. Fund for Faculty Excellence Award, Chapter published: “Mobilizing Materialities: a Dialogue given to the UO's top faculty who have a record of distinction Between Ursula Biemann and Emily Eliza Scott on the Planetary in their quality of scholarship and creative accomplishment, Condition & New Aesthetic-Environmental Imaginaries.” In contribution to their respective field, and contribution to the Productive Universals /Specific Situations: Analysis & Intervention university. in Art, Architecture & Urbanism, eds. Anne Kockelkorn and Nina Zschocke, 385-416. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019.

envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 3 Graduate Student Achievements

Oriana Chafe Nathaniel Otjen UO Graduate Research Forum Poster Award for "Fires, Shrubs, Published article: “The Fire Ants of Hurricane Harvey: and the Changing Arctic: drives landscape Displacement and Belonging in Houston” was published in transformation," UO Graduate Research Forum, May 17, 2019. the journal Otherness: Essays and Studies (special issue on “Otherness and the Urban”), vol. 7, no. 1, 2019, pp. 169-93. Sue Dockstader ENVS GE Teaching Award: This award is designed to recognize Schyler Reis outstanding teaching performance by ENVS graduate employees Published article: Reis, Schyler A, et al. “Long-Term Effects of (GEs) who have demonstrated a commitment to developing Fire on Vegetation Structure and Predicted Fire Behavior in their instructional skills, while at the same time excelling in their Wyoming Big Sagebrush .” Ecosystems., vol. 22, no. academic degree program. 2, 2019, pp. 257–265. Eliza Hernandez Dan Shtob Recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Graduate Teaching Excellence Award: This University of Oregon Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). award recognizes the outstanding teaching performance of an Initiated a greenhouse experiment at the UO Greenhouse experienced GE who also excel in their academic degree program. Facility that stimulates the effects of nitrogen deposition and precipitation change on population trajectories in California Sara Worl serpentine grasslands. ENVS GE Teaching Award: This award is designed to recognize outstanding teaching performance by ENVS graduate employees Geoffrey Johnson (GEs) who have demonstrated a commitment to developing their instructional skills, while at the same time excelling in their Published article: Johnson, Geoffrey M, et al. “Estuarine academic degree program. Dissolved Oxygen Inferred from Sedimentary Trace Metal and Organic Matter Preservation.” Estuaries and Coasts: Journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, vol. 42, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1211–1225. Laura Johnson Attended the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: Freshwater Mussel Biology and Identification Training. Kyle Keeler Published article: “The Great Global Warmer: Jay Gatsby as a Microcosm of Climate Change.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018, pp. 174–188. Published article: “‘I Thought This Is a Bad Dream and Tried to Cry Out’: Sleep as Trauma in the Fiction of Ambrose Bierce.” The Midwest Quarterly., vol. 60, no. 4, 2019, p. 451. Published article forthcoming: "'Will-of-the-Land': The Political Action of the Wilderness Ecology" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

4 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2019 Annual Review Environmental Leadership Program by: Katie Lynch

Since its founding in 2001, the Whitewater Ranch to enhance, maintain, and Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) monitor a riparian restoration project. has exemplified teaching excellence. Our The Oregon Oaks team worked with low student to instructor ratio translates Willamalane Park and Recreation District into high quality mentoring for our to map and characterize oak trees for undergraduates. Our application process, future oak restoration work. The Hendricks which includes an interview, means that we Forest team collaborated with the City of get to know our students before the projects Eugene to gather data to inform future even begin. This allows us to respond to management planning of the park. The the specific strengths, weaknesses, and Restoring Connections team worked in passions of each team member – providing partnership with Mt. Pisgah Arboretum resources, workshops, and field experiences to develop curriculum-exploring wetlands adapted to the needs of each unique team. and implement 15 field trips. The Canopy Our hands-on, interdisciplinary projects Connections team developed and facilitated provide students direct experience working field trips at HJA Experimental Forest for with community partners to engage with nearly 300 middle-schoolers, focused on soil real world challenges. Students hone their science and forest ecology. communication, collaboration and problem- All teams presented their work at the solving skills, while building their professional Undergraduate Research Symposium, and built networks. They leave ELP “career-ready,” and a website to showcase their accomplishments: prepared to be leaders in their fields. envs.uoregon.edu/pastprojects. In 2019, we offered five projects. Riparian Restoration worked in partnership with

envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 5 6 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2019 Annual Review Special Thanks to ELP Donors and Partners

We would like to thank the funders who made this all possible:

 Steve Ellis

 John L. Luvaas Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

 Robert and Catherine Miller Foundation

 National Science Foundation MacroSystems Biology Program Grand Award #EF-1340847

 All of our private donors

We would also like to acknowledge our community partners:

 Adams Elementary

 City of Eugene

 H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

 Mt. Pisgah Arboretum

 Pacific Tree Climbing Institute

 UO Bridgham Lab

 UO Roy Lab

 US Forest Service

 Whitewater Ranch

 Willamalane Parks and Recreation District ELP students in the field

envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 7 Adaptation Science Center, and many more to host the Tribes Tribal Climate Change and First Nations Climate Change Summit in Spokane, WA. The summit convened leaders from Tribes and First Nations Project throughout the Pacific Northwest and North America to By Haley Case-Scott advance tribal climate change policy and action and focused on tribal climate change resiliency, protecting and applying Traditional Knowledges in climate change initiatives, and implementing a unified tribal climate change policy agenda.

The TCCP also recently hosted the Climate Change and (CCIP) Lecture as part of the 2019 Western Humanities Alliance Conference. Dr. Clarita Lefthand- Begay from the University of Washington and President Fawn Sharp of the Quinault Indian Nation both participated as this year’s CCIP lecture keynote speakers. Dr. Lefthand-Begay serves as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Tribal Water Security Project at the Information School, University of Washington. President Sharp was recently elected as the President of the National Congress of American Indians, the oldest American Indian and Alaska native organization serving tribal governments and communities. As part of 2019 Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture. From the lecture, the CCIP invited four respondents to provide right to left: Dr. Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Genevieve Middleton, comments, questions, or ideas on the keynote presentations. Kaylee Jenness-Ardt, Haley Case-Scott, President Fawn Three of the respondents were recipients of the University of Sharp, Violet Johnson. Oregon Ecotrust Native American Scholarship, established in 2019 through a generous donation by Ecotrust. The Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP) is a collaborative project that began in 2009 between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. The TCCP works with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest to address the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples in the United States.

One of the primary goals of the TCCP is to engage tribal undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Oregon through student internships and research positions. This year, two of our interns have started new positions that serve tribal communities and governments. Kaylee Jenness- Ardt is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and a former student research assistant at the TCCP. Over the summer, Kaylee interned for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington D.C.. She recently started as a graduate student in the University of Oregon School of Planning, Public Policy and Management and will continue as a BIA intern. Haley Case-Scott, a member of the Siletz Tribe, has worked for the TCCP since 2017. Since graduating in 2018 with a degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon, Haley now works with the United States Forest Service Assistance Program and is stationed with the TCCP, through a partnership with the USDA Northwest Climate Hub, the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station and Salish Kootenai Tribal College.

In July 2019, the Tribal Climate Change Project partnered with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Northwest Climate

8 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2019 Annual Review audience from around the world. A third gathering in June will Center for Environmental feature Rebekah Sinclair. We presented $1,000 awards to support undergraduate honors theses in the to Futures Update Lydia Angel, Jordan Barton, Rachel Connor, Momo Crowe, Jordan By Stephanie LeMenager and Marsha Weisiger Harden, Julia Liu, Cal Penkauskas, Siena Polk, Jasmine Tribolet, and Bethan Tyler. Summer research awards of $5,000 went to faculty in the environmental humanities: Nina Armstutz (Art History), Marcel Brosseau (Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies), Anne Kreps (), Theresa May (Theater Arts), and Peter Walker (Geography). Common Reading Spotlights Environmental Justice By: Sarah Wald

The University of Oregon is featuring Helena Maria Viramontes’s farmworker novel Under the Feet of Jesus as CEF Co-Directors Stephanie LeMenager and Marsha Weisiger its common reading this year. examine arborglyphs in a secluded aspen grove in the Steens Themes of environmental justice mountain wilderness area in Eastern Oregon. and food justice are central to Photo credit: Nate Otjen. the novel and Environmental Studies faculty and graduate The Center for Environmental Futures, which is housed within the students are playing key roles in Environmental Studies Program, welcomes multiple awardees programming for the novel and this year, all made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. producing pedagogical resources Our Awardees include four scholars in residence: Visiting used across campus. Scholar Nancy Langston, Postdoctoral Scholar M Jackson, and Dissertation Award Winners Rebekah Sinclair () While she was on campus, Helena and Alison Ford (Sociology) have taken up desks in our new María Viramontes, a professor CEF headquarters at 206 Agate Hall. Langston is Professor of at Cornell University, spoke to a at Michigan Tech University. Author of crowd that filled the EMU Ballroom to capacity. She also met with Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES (Yale four community organizations working on environmental justice University Press 2010), Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The and farmworker justice issues locally while giving a talk at the Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (UWP 1995) and other Eugene public libraries, met with students in four undergraduate groundbreaking environmental , Langston came to the classes, and led a writing workshop for faculty and graduate UO to work on her new book treating climate change, students. loss, and extinctions, Climate Ghosts: Northern Migrations in the . M Jackson is an American geographer, glaciologist, ENVS is benefiting from co-curricular programming across and National Geographic Society Explorer. She is the author of campus this year, including the “Common Seeing” exhibition at the the popular books The Secret Lives of Glaciers and While Glaciers Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. This exhibit includes the JSMA’s Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change. At the UO this year, recent acquisition, Ester Hernández's “Sun Mad,” a key work of she is writing a cli fi novel based on her experiences in the Arctic. Chicana feminist art often examined in relation to food justice and Rebekah Sinclair is completing a dissertation about the vagaries environmental justice. of the species concept as a scientific and philosophical rubric, and Alison Ford's dissertation, which is based on extensive fieldwork, The teaching guide used across campus for Under the Feet of examines the environmental ideas of preppers in rural Idaho. Jesus was produced by a small group of graduate students including ESSP PhD students Katrina Maggiulli, Nate Otjen, and CEF had to postpone an array of programs planned for the spring. Lisa Fink working with ENVS faculty member Sarah Wald. But, two well attended Zoom gatherings of Interdisciplinarity 101 featured Allison Ford and M Jackson; the latter drew an ENVS is delighted to have the novel serve as a touchstone for a year-long campus-wide conversation about environmental justice. envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 9 Food Studies Update By Stephen Wooten

2018-19 was another busy and productive year for Food Studies (FS). In terms of graduates, it was banner year for the program. In our first year (16-17) we had 8 undergraduates complete the minor (just a few months after it was approved!) and in our second year (17-18) we had 18. This past year we celebrated the completion of a whopping 32 minors! And, they came from 16 different majors - quite a broad reach. In addition, we had another graduate specialist complete the program. His MA was from PPPM and he brings our total in the graduate specialist category to 15 over the last few years. Our declared minors have swelled to over 60 and graduate students from across campus continue to pursue our specialization.

In spring 2019 the program completed another round of grant funding for FS graduate students. Awards in the included Timothy Herrera (): “Mexican-American and other Latinx Foodways in the Willamette Valley of Oregon," Alyssa Sperry, (International/Global Studies): "Salt and Cultural Identity Construction in Jamaica,” and Lindsey Foltz (Anthropology): “Self Preservation: Seeds, Foods, Heritage and Resilience in Contemporary Bulgaria.”

Exciting and important food-related research happened at the undergraduate level as well. For example, two student-scholars won awards at the annual Undergraduate Research Forum. Karishma Shah was recognized for her outstanding work on

10 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2018 Annual Review SAIL: Focus on Diversity By: Katie Lynch

“The Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL) program is an innovative bridge program that serves middle and high school students from underrepresented backgrounds, which include lower income and/or first generation college students, with the aim of encouraging students to enroll and succeed in college through early exposure and exploration.” sail.uoregon.edu/about

During summer 2019, ENVS hosted its fourth SAIL camp. This week-long camp introduced 25 rising high school freshmen to our interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to Environmental Studies. Students put on waders and collected macroinvertebrates to look at water quality issues; collected seeds and learned about the importance of bees and passive solar design at the Urban Farm; visited the Many Nations Longhouse and learned how climate change is affecting local tribes. Other sessions introduced them to life cycle analysis, environmental justice, urban planning, and the environmental humanities. A day-long field trip to Mt. Pisgah Arboretum included learning about local flora and fauna and a transformative silent hike through the incense cedars. In food gentrification in Portland. And, Sarah Hovet’s creative their exit surveys, the majority ranked their experience as research on Jamaican food and poetry received special honors. “outstanding.” One student wrote “Thank you for allowing me to have such a wonderful experience and learning so many new Faculty members associated with the program also garnered things in such a positive and hands-on environment.” Another recognition for their scholarship. For example, Diana Garvin noted, “Thank you for providing such an amazing and enriching (Romance Languages/Italian) won a Presidential Fellowship experience. I now feel that I can take the information I have in Humanistic Studies and Sarah Wald (English/Environmental learned and continue to educate myself and others.” Studies) received a Faculty Excellence Award.

ENVS 225 Introduction to Food Studies continues to enroll at an impressive pace, new food courses keep appearing on the schedule, and our faculty have developed three food-focused First-Year Interest Groups with special support from the Rippey Program. Food Studies continues to grow “abroad” as well. Over the summer, students on Director Stephen Wooten’s Greek Food and program experienced regional foodways through intimate field encounters with Greek cheesemakers, cooks, and farm coop members. The FS tradition of “spoon” awards is expanding to new shores!

The past academic year saw a wide range of programming in FS. We hosted or co-sponsored numerous, well-attended events on diverse topics including “Teaching Latino Food Studies,” “Medieval Bread: Meaning and Making,” “Lab Meat, Gene Editing Special thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to make and Nanotech,” “Eugenic Cookery: Recipes from Italy’s Fascist this possible, including ENVS faculty (Harper Keeler, Kathryn Regime,” and “The GrowPod Lab: A UO Indoor Ag Experiment.” Lynch, Erin Moore, Alexandra Rempel, Marsha Weisiger); (See photo.) This set of presentations gives a good picture of graduate students (Hayley Brazier, Stacie Duffey, Lisa Fink, the many perspectives and engagement with the realm of FS. Laura Johnson, Sierra McComas, Corrie Parish, Zachary Provant); and campus and community members (Sydney The FS community is a welcoming one! Feel free to reach out Hanover, Climate Justice League; Jenny Laxton, Mt. Pisgah to connect with us anytime ([email protected]) and Arboretum; Taylor McHolm, UO Student Sustainability Center; plan to attend an upcoming event. Find out more at our website Haley Case-Scott, Tribal Climate Change Project; and Katie (foodstudies.uoregon.edu) and on our Facebook page. Staton, Many Nations Longhouse Steward). envs.uoregon.edu ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM 11 ReNews Environmental Studies Program 5223 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-52237

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ENVS at the UO by the numbers

315 ENVS Majors 2,215 Undergrads enrolled in an ENVS 81 ENVS Minors class in 2018-19 28 Core Faculty 56 Food Studies Minors 13 Current Master’s students 211 ESCI Majors 15 Collaborative Community Projects 23 Current PhD students and Events in 2017-18

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2018 Annual Review