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Bruce Jennings Receives New Faculty Appointment

February 12th, 2010

CHN Director of Bioethics Bruce Jennings has been appointed lecturer at the Cornell Medical School (officially called the Weill Cornell Medical College) in New York City. He will be working with colleagues in the Division of Medical Ethics and the Department of Public Health, participating in faculty seminars, and advising individual students who are doing research on bioethics issues. Jennings is also on the faculty of the Yale School of Public Health, where he teaches a course on ethical issues in public health. His new relationship at Cornell will assist him in bringing health and environmental issues together in CHN research in areas such as climate change adaptation and environmental justice.

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CHN Board Member to Receive 2008 NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award

December 8th, 2008

George Rabb, a member of the CHN Board of Directors will be honored for his work in conservation with Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Center for Science and the Environment (NSCE). The award will be given at the 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment of NSCE to be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and the International Trade Center in Washington, DC on December 8-10, 2008. Also being honored are Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Edward O. Wilson, noted entomologist and conservationist and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

George Rabb, Ph.D., is the President Emeritus of the Chicago Zoological Society. He began his conservation career at the College of Charleston where he majored in Biology, and then earned his doctorate in zoology from the University of Michigan. In 1956 he joined Brookfield Zoo as a research zoologist. Dr. Rabb became the Director of Brookfield Zoo and President of the Chicago Zoological Society in 1976. He has been a leader in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, chairing its Species Survival Commission for nearly two decades. Most recently Dr. Rabb has been very active in organizing a response to the decrease in amphibian populations worldwide. Among many other awards, Dr. Rabb has received the Marlin Perkins Award from the America Zoos and Aquariums Association and the Society for Conservation Biology Service Award. (http://ncseonline.org/Conference/Biodiversity/cms.cfm?id=2277)

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Prairie Festival 30 held in Honor of Strachan Donnelley

September 28th, 2008

The Land Institute’s 30th Prairie Festival will be held in honor of Strachan Donnelley. Land Institute scientists will give a research update and founder Wes Jackson will present his annual inspirational at the 30th festival, themed “Restoration and Conservation.” You’ll enjoy the homegrown tunes of Ann Zimmerman. And you’ll not be alone in the wilderness: People who celebrate The Land Institute’s Prairie Festival share a caring about sustainable living and our land, and they say these warm people are the best thing about attending. We invite you to be part of it at The Land Institute during Prairie Festival 30, September 26-28, 2008. (Information from the Land Institute website)

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CHN Board Member Named 2008 Hero of Conservation

August 25th, 2008

Field & Stream, the world’s leading outdoor magazine, announced its 2008 Heroes of Conservation on August 25, 2008. The awards recognize sportsmen “dedicated to the grassroots protection of fish, wildlife, and habitat.” Charles Lane, of Charleston, SC and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Humans and Nature, was among the seven honorees.

In 1989, Lane helped found the ACE Basin Project. “It’s a unique partnership where we have hunting and other conservation groups usually associated with anti-hunting working to preserve this area for traditional land uses, which includes hunting,” says Lane. The ACE Basin Project has protected over 172,000 acres including 40,000 acres of public hunting land.

The Heroes of Conservation Awards are open to individuals involved in a hunting- and/or fishing-related conservation project that is well under way or completed. Selections are based on a number of factors, including leadership, commitment, project growth and results. The seven heroes will be celebrated at the third annual Heroes of Conservation Awards Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on September 25, 2008. Read more from Field & Stream and watch videos of Lane and the other honorees.

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CHN Board Member Receives Honorary Degree

August 9th, 2008

Gus Speth, Dean of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Humans and Nature, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Carolina on August 9, 2008.

Speth, a native of Orangeburg, SC, attended South Carolina’s public schools, earned a bachelor’s and a law degree from Yale and a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He is an accomplished environmental leader, lawyer, author and the founder of many organizations. His most recent book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, was published earlier this year. Read more about Dean Speth.

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