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President Bush Grills an Endangered Species

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Pat Munday worked with the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups to write and direct a brief image event, “President Bush Grills an Endangered Species,” to publicize the plight of the Big Hole River grayling, a species recently removed as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASzy-ikmYA

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Press Release from Montana Tech

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Soon after settling in Butte in 1990, Montana Tech professor and environmental historian Pat Munday became interested and involved in Superfund issues. For many years, he worked with groups such as the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee and Trout Unlimited to promote remedies protective of human and environmental health. Now that the remedies, or [...]

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Honorable Mention for Book by Envirotechies

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Joel Tarr and Clay McShane’s book The Horse in the City won Honorable Mention for the Lewis Mumford Prize of the Society for American Regional and Planning History.

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Walker and LeCain Awarded NSF Grant: Will Compare Japanese and American Reactions to Mining Pollutants

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

By Evelyn Boswell, Montana State University News Service, Bozeman
Originally published in the Spring 2007 Envirotech Newsletter.
Editor’s Note: I hope you all will forgive me in advance for including an article on my own work here, but I think the project will be of interest to many of you. By all means, please send me [...]

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Jeffrey Stine’s Recent Retrospective on Worster’s Dust Bowl in T&C

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Jeffrey Stine published a fascinating retrospective essay on Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl in the latest issue of Technology and Culture. The essay is also available on the journal’s website:
http://shot-dev.press.jhu.edu/eTC/eTCmain.html .

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Sara Pritchard Moves to Cornell

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

During the 2006 – 2007 academic year, Sara Pritchard revised her book manuscript, organized Montana State University’s Department of History’s third NSF “Mile High, Mile Deep” conference (a joint workshop with the University of Wisconsin – Madison), gave several papers, and advised her first four Master’s students, all of whom are continuing on with their [...]

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Betsy Mendelsohn accepts new position

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

My news is that I’ve got a new job in STS that continues to let me adjunct in the History Dept. here at U. Maryland. I’ll be teaching a small urban environmental history lecture course and an agricultural history seminar next year.
Beginning June 1:
Director
Science, Technology and Society Programs
University of Maryland,
Chestertown Hall, Rm. 1108,
College Park, MD [...]

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