Musical Chairs
School names five new department heads
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Posted: 10/3/07, 12:44 AM EST Section: News
The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry has a whole new wave of leadership as five professors were named department at the end of September. Two of the new chairs have come from other universities and one is an ESF alumnus. All of the new chairs have extensive yet various academic backgrounds.
The new chairman of the Paper and Bioprocess Engineering was an internal pick. Dr. Gary Scott was associate chair and a professor in the department. The topics of Scott's latest research include: Scale Up of Biopulping, Biochemical Pulping, Neural Network Applications, Paper Recycling and Stock Flow Modeling, according to his Web site. Scott had worked for the USDA Forest Products laboratory in Madison, Wis. - the state where he received his education - before joining the ESF community in 1998.
Coming east from Washington State University is Dr. David Sonnenfeld. He will head the department of Environmental Studies. At Washington State University, he was in the department of community and rural sociology. Sonnenfeld's move to the East will be one of his least dramatic moves: He has held positions at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University and at the Australian National University in Canberra. Sonnenfeld is currently a research associate with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
After 15 years in the Department of Construction Management and Wood Products Engineering, Susan Anagnost will take over as chair of the department. Anagnost is succeeding Dr. Robert Meyer, who will return to his teaching and research duties full time. Anagnost is also involved in ESF's N. C. Brown Center for Ultrastructure Studies, where she serves as associate director.
In another cross-country move, this time from the South, Dr. David Newman will assume the chair of the Forest and Natural Resources Management department. Newman is joining the ESF faculty after serving as associate dean at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. He was also a professor of forest economics at Georgia. Newman attended the University of California, Berkley, as an undergraduate and Duke University during his graduate years. Newman has also held either visiting faculty or research positions on three continents.
The director of Analytical and Technical Services at ESF, Dr. Arthur Stipanovic, has been named Chemistry department chair. Stipanovic is an ESF alumnus and returned to teach at his alma mater in 1998. During a 20-year stint as a research chemist and manager in the private sector, Stipanovic worked for the St. Regis Paper Company and Texaco.
SOURCE: ESF Department of Communications
The new chairman of the Paper and Bioprocess Engineering was an internal pick. Dr. Gary Scott was associate chair and a professor in the department. The topics of Scott's latest research include: Scale Up of Biopulping, Biochemical Pulping, Neural Network Applications, Paper Recycling and Stock Flow Modeling, according to his Web site. Scott had worked for the USDA Forest Products laboratory in Madison, Wis. - the state where he received his education - before joining the ESF community in 1998.
Coming east from Washington State University is Dr. David Sonnenfeld. He will head the department of Environmental Studies. At Washington State University, he was in the department of community and rural sociology. Sonnenfeld's move to the East will be one of his least dramatic moves: He has held positions at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University and at the Australian National University in Canberra. Sonnenfeld is currently a research associate with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
After 15 years in the Department of Construction Management and Wood Products Engineering, Susan Anagnost will take over as chair of the department. Anagnost is succeeding Dr. Robert Meyer, who will return to his teaching and research duties full time. Anagnost is also involved in ESF's N. C. Brown Center for Ultrastructure Studies, where she serves as associate director.
In another cross-country move, this time from the South, Dr. David Newman will assume the chair of the Forest and Natural Resources Management department. Newman is joining the ESF faculty after serving as associate dean at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. He was also a professor of forest economics at Georgia. Newman attended the University of California, Berkley, as an undergraduate and Duke University during his graduate years. Newman has also held either visiting faculty or research positions on three continents.
The director of Analytical and Technical Services at ESF, Dr. Arthur Stipanovic, has been named Chemistry department chair. Stipanovic is an ESF alumnus and returned to teach at his alma mater in 1998. During a 20-year stint as a research chemist and manager in the private sector, Stipanovic worked for the St. Regis Paper Company and Texaco.
SOURCE: ESF Department of Communications
The classic image of Andrew Revkin, veteran New York Times science reporter, shows him standing in front of a small pole in a frozen tundra of snow and ice.
The sign reads: "North Pole is here."
Scratch that: "North Pole was here."
Revkin was presented with one of three 2007 Sol Feinstone Environmental Awards. The awards were given to "journalists whose work highlighted a local environmental issue and led to improvement of that issue" and were handed out by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, according to the ESF Office of Communications.
Revkin spoke and signed his books, "The Burning Season and "The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World," and delivered a keynote address at a September dinner honoring the winners.
Revkin has been at The New York Times for 25 years and has reported extensively on the retreat of the polar icecaps. He received the honorary Feinstone award.
The first place winner was John Upton of The Tracy Press in California for a series he penned on an air pollution permit given to a federal weapons researcher.
Jeff Kart, from The Bay City Times in Michigan, was the runner-up. Kart wrote on pollution in Michigan's freshwater marshes.
The award is named in honor of ESF alumnus Sol Feinstone, Class of 1915, who was a widely known historian and author, according to the ESF Office of Communications.
SOURCE: ESF Office of Communications
The sign reads: "North Pole is here."
Scratch that: "North Pole was here."
Revkin was presented with one of three 2007 Sol Feinstone Environmental Awards. The awards were given to "journalists whose work highlighted a local environmental issue and led to improvement of that issue" and were handed out by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, according to the ESF Office of Communications.
Revkin spoke and signed his books, "The Burning Season and "The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World," and delivered a keynote address at a September dinner honoring the winners.
Revkin has been at The New York Times for 25 years and has reported extensively on the retreat of the polar icecaps. He received the honorary Feinstone award.
The first place winner was John Upton of The Tracy Press in California for a series he penned on an air pollution permit given to a federal weapons researcher.
Jeff Kart, from The Bay City Times in Michigan, was the runner-up. Kart wrote on pollution in Michigan's freshwater marshes.
The award is named in honor of ESF alumnus Sol Feinstone, Class of 1915, who was a widely known historian and author, according to the ESF Office of Communications.
SOURCE: ESF Office of Communications
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