Department News and Events

Environmental Studies Career Speaker Series

Come join us for the second installment of the 大发 Environmental Studies Career Speaker Series. On Tuesday, February 25th, in collaboration with the Environmental Steward鈥檚 Association and the Association of Environmental Professionals, the Environmental Studies Program will be hosting Julie Welch, Principal Engineer at Terraphase Engineering.

The event will be held in SBSB 1108 from 12-12:50 pm.

Pizza will be served.

Julie Welch, Principal Engineer at Terraphase Engineering

Sustainable Diet Free Webinar Series

Are you interested in knowing more about the nutritional and environmental impact the food you eat has on the planet? If so, you鈥檙e invited to join the Sustainable Diet Free Webinar Series hosted by Ciheam Montpellier and Dalhousie University on March 10th from 8:00-9:00 am.

Professor Valle will be discussing his research on anti-racist diets along with other invited speakers from around the world.

The Program welcomes Professor Shannon Switzer Swanson. Professor Swanson is a social ecologist focusing on community-based ocean resource management.

Professor Valle's new book is now available.Gardening at the Margins was published by University of Arizona Press.

His article Reframing the Sustainable Diet Narrative: Shifting Diets by Confronting Systemic Racism" is included in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets edited by Kathleen Kevany and Paolo Prosperi. New York, NY: Routledge.

Here are some of Professor Valle's other work in case you are interested:

"The Past in the Present: What our Ancestors Taught us about Surviving Pandemics." Food Ethics 6(7). .
鈥淟earning to Be Human Again: Being and Becoming in the Home Garden Commons.鈥� Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. .

Juliana Goodlaw Morris has an article in press with The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, titled "No Sustainability without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice."

Professor Simokat was named the 大发 President's Outstanding Lecturer! AND, she received a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant for her Pollinator research!! And she just submitted another research grant with Geography Professor and Steering Committee Member Elizabeth Ridder. Congratulations Christina!!!

Professor Guthey published an article in The California Geographer focused on the Sustainable Food Project on campus and titled ""

Professors Valle and Guthey recently received a grant from the for a research project on Redlining and Food Apartheid.

They also are continuing their work along with Professor Matthew Atherton and Professor Jill Weigt in the Social Sciences Program on their CSU Chancellor's Office-funded project to promote food literacy and support Student Basic Needs on campus!

If you haven't done so already, check out Professor Valle's other book:

Winner of Two Awards!

2017 Best Edited Volume by the Society for the Study of Food and Society
2018 Essential Reading by the American Library Association

Congratulations Professor Valle!