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ENX 301 capstone project presentations
May 10, 2021
Seniors in the Environmental Concentration present their capstone research projects: 3-3:30 p.m. "Unpacking the Impact of COVID-19: Keeping Sustainability Goals from Being Trashed" by Chloe Birney, Audrey Dawson and Austin Slesinski; 3:30-4 p.m. "Food and Social Equity: Re-imagining Farm to Institution of New England's Food Access Dashboard" by Sofia Romero Campbell and Phoebe Lease; 4-4:30 p.m. "We need to focus on the damn land” Land-grant Universities and Indigenous Nations in the Northeast" by Maeve McCurdy, Fee Pelz-Sharpe, and Sofia Perrotto; and 4:30-5 p.m. "Can the Healthy Incentives Program Serve Everyone Who Needs It? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Healthy Food Access in Hampden County" by Sawyer Blake, Kiehl Jones, Molly Keller, and Madeline Turner. Attend with link below.
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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

ENV 312 capstone project presentations
May 13, 2021
Environmental Science and Policy majors present their capstone research projects: "Reimagining the Northampton Food Rescue: A case study of food waste and food insecurity in Northampton, MA" by Mia Fuentes Deonate, Ellie Humphrey, and Kiehl Jones; "Party in the USA (Waste): Evaluating Waste Hauling within an Oligopoly in Amherst, MA" by Sydney Abraham, Madison Biasin, Ella Carlson, and Taylor Ditmar; and "Investigating the Feasibility of Agrivoltaics in Massachusetts" by Natalie Baillargeon, Glenda Perez, and Chaia Yodaiken. Attend with link below.
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Virtual
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Events Off Campus

‘Meet the Speaker’with Nia Walker
May 10, 2021
a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in Stephen Palumbi’s lab based at Hopkins Marine Station.  If you are an undergraduate in New England join Nia Walker to learn more about her research and pathway in science. Register below: 
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4:00 pm

Keeping kinships, re-membering futures: Indigenous Peoples protecting wild salmon in Alaska
May 13, 2021
A talk by Carol Kalafatic and Chief Gary Harrison. Globally, many Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty initiatives focus on the revitalization of their traditional food systems. Several initiatives include the protection of fish and their habitats against over-fishing, environmental degradation, and the climate crisis. This seminar will discuss some Alaska Native (especially Ahtna Athabascan) initiatives to protect wild salmon as a culturally important being who also happens to be a biological keystone species. It will also summarize the on-going social and political challenges that Alaska Native Peoples face in asserting their self-determination within their territories — where salmon find some of their last remaining pristine habitats. Carol Kalafatic (Quechua, Spanish & Croatian) is a Resistance Studies Fellow with the Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst and has been working with Indigenous Peoples (IPs) since 1991, as an organizer, workshop provider, trans-disciplinary scholar, and policy advocate for IPs’ self-determination and food sovereignty. She serves on the Trustee Board of the Forest Peoples’ Programme, and as Board Vice Chair of the AJ Muste Institute. Chief Gary Harrison (Ahtna), is Traditional Chief of Nay'dini'aa Na' Kayax' (Chickaloon Village), Alaska, and Tribal Chairman of Chickaloon Village Traditional Council. He was named Traditional Chief in 1994. For decades he has been a sovereignty activist and helped guide Chickaloon as a Tribal Government, outside of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to become an important, alternate governance model for other traditional indigenous communities around the world. More about these speakers is here: https://tinyurl.com/keepingkinships To register for the event click on the link below:
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Virtual
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

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Dramatic Reading: "The Council" by William Yellow Robe Jr.,
May 27, 2021
Playwright & Director, featuring John Scott-Richardson, Danielle Soames, and Albert "Abby" Ybarra; music by Charlie Jennison. This event will center on the dramatic reading of the play “The Council” by William Yellow Robe Jr., a member of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes raised on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. “The Council” describes the struggle of (hu)man to recognize his relationship among animals and potential for destructive power. The dramatic reading of the play will be followed by a panel discussion with the actors relating the themes of the play to contemporary issues in environmental sustainability and climate change. The final event in this year's Sidore Series at UNH. Registration link is below:
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Virtual
7:00 pm