Take your best shot -- win a cash prize – see you photo on display at the University Center!
In honor of UT’s Environmental Semester, we urge you to enter your most dramatic, unusual, inspiring, or thought-provoking photograph(s) that portrays the relationship of energy, earth and the environment. From the microscopic level, to the visible world, to the stars, the options are endless. For example, consider…
ˇ How does the environment show or hide the impact of man-made energy sources?
ˇ How does energy from the sun and the earth manifest itself in our environment?
ˇ How can the camera show the constant interaction of man, the environment, and the forces of matter, change, and energy?
ˇ How is energy captured or produced by man or by nature?
ˇ How does our environment on earth relate to the environment of the cosmos and the energy and light flowing to and from earth?
Grand Prize (1): $300, an 11 x 14 enlargement, photograph exhibited at the University of Tennessee Student Center in April 2005.
Category Winners (2) - Microscopic/Macro photography/Close-up/Cosmos/Space/Human scale/Landscapes/Vistas
$100, an 11 x 14 enlargement, photograph exhibited at the University of Tennessee Student Center in April 2005.
Honorable Mentions (10): An 11 x 14 enlargement and photo exhibited at the University of Tennessee Student Center in April 2005.
Deadline to enter is March 1, 2005. Winners to be announced in mid to late March. Photos exhibited in the University Center concourse in April 2005.
For complete details and contest rules, visit www.bakercenter.utk.edu or http://environmentalsemester.utk.edu/
Sponsored by the University of Tennessee Environmental Semester, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, College of Communication & Information, College of Arts and Sciences, UT Visual Arts Committee, UT Bookstore and Thompson Photo Products.
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SPECIAL ES NEWS:
Tennessee EPSCoR Environmental Summit 2005
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A symposium focusing on developing environmental research infrastructure, advancing environmental technology, and establishing an environmental strategy for Tennessee will be hosted on February 16 and 17, 2005, by Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN. Sessions will be molded around the broad themes of air, water, and land.
A poster session on the afternoon of February 16 will allow researchers across Tennessee in all fields relating to environmental issues to present their areas of research. This is a valuable networking opportunity and is geared toward environmental academicians/professionals, not students. The symposium will also include invited oral presentations and breakout sessions.
I am writing at this time to solicit presentations for the poster session. The poster can focus on an individual research project or can be an overview to demonstrate the breadth of your research group. In addition, posters featuring a university’s/agency’s environmental education programs are encouraged. Poster presentations are limited to one per principal investigator. The program organizing committee will review all abstracts.
Freestanding poster boards (4’ wide x 3’ high) will be provided and can accommodate a 12-page presentation (on 8.5 x 11” sheets). Please immediately submit to me via email (mjmwells@tntech.edu) a tentative title of your presentation to facilitate planning. A full abstract of your presentation is due to me by January 28, 2005, and must follow the format outlined in the attached file. All abstracts will be compiled into a CD available at the event.
A $50 registration fee is required of all attendees. Additional information regarding registration and the agenda are available at http://www.tntech.edu/wrc/EPSCOR.htm. Please contact Ms. Sandra Pigg at 931-372-3519 or spigg@tntech.edu to register for the symposium by January 28, 2005.
Martha J.M. Wells, Ph.D. , Professor/Environmental Chemistry; Center for the Management, Utilization, and Protection of Water Resources
Tennessee Technological University, Box 5033, Cookeville, TN 38505
Phone: (931)372-6123 FAX: (931)372-6346; email: mjmwells@tntech.edu
http://gemini.tntech.edu/~mjw5030/
SPECIAL NEWS: Music @ The Rothrock
The new winter schedule brings fabulous musicians, writers, and speakers to The Rothrock Cafe at Lawson McGhee Library: Music @ The Rothrock Tuesdays @ 6:30 pm.
Music Therapy with Danny Gammon - January 11, Southerlywinds- January 18, Opera Evening - January 25, William Boyd Group - February 1, Opera Evening -February 8, RheaSunshine - February 15, Austin-East High School Jazz Band - February 22
Thursdays @ The Rothrock begins @ 6:30 pm. Reading from Knoxville Bound - January 13, John Johnson from The Dogwood Alliance will discuss the devastation of our forests - January 20, Reading from Migrants and Stowaways - January 27, Rev. Kelly Smith will discuss the Civil Rights Movement - February 3, Robert Booker, author of “Two Hundred Years of Black Culture in Knoxville, Tennessee,” will speak - February 10, Mike Berry will talk about
Joseph Delaney - February 17, Avon Rollins, director of Beck Cultural Exchange Center - February 24
These weekly programs present Knoxville's finest musicians, writers, and speakers, at no cost, in the friendly low-key atmosphere that is the public library. Free parking is available at the Locust Street Garage. Please call 215-8750 for more information. The Rothrock Café is on the right through the front door of the Library.
EVENTS:
Spring 2005 Community Conversations at Maryville College
The environment is focus of upcoming Community Conversations series at Maryville College.
“Authors, Activists and the Environment” at Maryville College
Maryville College faculty, staff and students invite the community to take part in a semester-long conversation about the environment, and to help lead those conversations, the College has invited well-known authors and activists to campus.
March 1, acclaimed author, environmental activist and naturalist Janisse Ray speaks on “Living Green in Appalachia: One Woman’s Environmental Journey.” Her presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Music Hall.
Ray, who wrote “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood” and “Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home,” was reared in Georgia, where her parents owned a junkyard. Through her writing and activism, she has a touching way of reminding people how inextricably tied they are to the places from which they come and to the families and friends who accompany them along life’s path.
She currently supports Dogwood Alliance, a grassroots organization working to save native Southern Appalachian forests. Donations to the organization will be accepted at the March 1 presentation.
April 12, author and college professor Dr. Donald Davis will speak on “Appalachian Environment: Past, Present and Future” at 7 p.m., April 12 in the Fine Arts Center Music Hall.
Nationally recognized as an expert on environmental issues and the Southern Appalachian Mountains, this Dalton State College professor of sociology has written “Ecophilosophy: A Field Guide to the Literature,”Hiking Trails of the Smokies” and most recently, “Where There are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians.”
April 22 - EARTH DAY will feature music, natural foods, and other eco-friendly fare and will bring Community Conversations to a close
Held every semester at Maryville College, Community Conversations facilitates conversations and discussions across many constituencies – current students, staff and faculty, citizens of Blount and surrounding counties, College alumni and prospective students. All events are free and open to the public.
“In organizing these conversations, Maryville College continues its tradition of supporting good stewardship of the environment,” said Dr. Mark O’Gorman, associate professor of political science and coordinator of the College’s environmental studies program. “By going beyond the class and bringing together MC students and members of the local community to hear these nationally recognized environmental speakers, the College hopes to spark further reflection about the unique natural beauty of East Tennessee and what role the environment will have in discussions about this region’s future.” For more information, Call 981.8269
NEW OPPORTUNITIES for
student research reported by Career Services
Undergraduate and graduate students have research opportunities in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER), Climate Change Research Division, Global Change Education Program (GCEP).
Appointment to the program is competitive, and you must be a U.S. citizen. GCEP-SURE is a 10-week research program. It sponsors a one-week Orientation, research with mentors at DOE facilities, and an End-of-Summer Workshop. Participants receive a weekly stipend of $475, and travel expenses are paid. Although the program targets sophomores, juniors, and seniors, outstanding freshmen will be considered. GCEP-GREF is a doctoral fellowship program for students enrolled in life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Fellows receive $1,500 monthly and an annual academic/research allowance of $1,200, and their tuition and fees are paid. Applicants must have completed at least their first year of graduate studies, unless they have been SURE participants.
Technical areas include atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes. OBER supports global change research through its Atmospheric Science Program (ASP), Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM), Terrestrial Carbon Processes (TCP) effort, Program for Ecosystem Research (PER), and the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC). In past years, the ASP program involved both the Atmospheric Chemistry Program (ACP) and Environmental Meteorology Program (EMP). During FY 2004 the ACP and EMP programs were ended and have been refocused in FY 2005 in new ASP research projects examining aerosols and their radiative effects. Other studies address integrated assessments, predictions, and policy, as well as paleoclimatology and earth system processes.
The deadline for application is February 7, 2005. You may obtain more information and an interactive electronics application by visiting the website http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/. Contact the following if you have questions:
* Dr. Jeffrey S. Gaffney at 630/252-5178 or gaffney@anl.gov
* Dr. Milton J. Constantin at 865/576-7009 or constanm@orau.gov
The GCEP-SURE and GCEP-GREF programs are administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), which is a Department of Energy facility managed under contract by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).
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