Cameron Davidson, Professor of Geology, Laura Cleaveland Peterson ’01, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Luther College, and Alessandro Montanari, Director of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco, Italy, were awarded a Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Grant by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) to support a faculty workshop to be held at Geological Observatory of Coldigioco (OGC) in Italy during the summer of 2010. The ultimate goal of this collaborative research project is to bring together ACM faculty from a variety of science disciplines to explore the possibility of a field-based Earth and Environmental Science off-campus studies program based at the OGC.
Mary Savina ’72, Charles L. Denison Professor of Geology, Steve Holland, Assistant Professor of Economics at Luther College, Jon Jensen, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Luther College, Ruth Kath, Professor of German at Luther College, Suzanne Savanick Hansen, Sustainability Manager at Macalester College, and James Farrell, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at St. Olaf, were awarded a Faculty Career Enhancement (FaCE) Grant by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) to work on Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum. This project will assist ACM schools in efforts to integrate sustainability into their curricula through the development and dissemination of discipline specific and interdisciplinary resources on sustainability and through the sharing of best practices.