Nature & The Environment: The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series
About the Series
The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series developed as a joint effort of a number of departments, out of discussions initiated in
1995 by faculty members and graduate students with common interests in the many facets of environmental issues. The Lecture
Series is designed to bring a variety of distinguished speakers to the University to speak on various aspects of nature and
the environment.
The Teale Lecture Series received the Joshua's Trust Conservation Award in
recognition of Outstanding Conservation Efforts in 2007.
All lectures are free, open to the public and held at 4:00 pm in the Konover Auditorium (with the exception of Thursday, February 7th, which will be a two-part program with a lecture at 4 and a film virewing at 7pm) at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
A downloadable flyer is available here
September 13, 2012
"The Natural Environment and the Strategy of Firms"Forest L. Reinhardt
John D. Black Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
October 4, 2012
"Civilization: Is it Worth the Cost?"
George M. Woodwell
Founder
Woods Hole Research Center
Watch the lecture here
November 8, 2012
"The Long Thaw: How humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate"David Archer
Professor of Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
Watch the lecture here
February 7, 2013
4:00pm
"The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology"
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Watch the lecture here
7:30pm
Film viewing of
“Journey of the Universe”
Mary Evelyn Tucker and her co-executive producer of the film, John Grim, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will speak about the film.
March 14, 2013
"Give Science a Chance: Communicating about Environmental Risks"
Baruch Fischhoff
Howard Heinz University Professor
Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
April 18, 2013
"The Lost Woods of Childhood"
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Professor, Creative Writing Program
Department of English
Affiliated Faculty, Institute of the Environment
University of Arizona
This lecture is co-sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Creative Writing Program, and the English Department
Past Lecturers
The Lecture Series is sponsored by:
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Graduate School, Offices of the President & Provost, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, School of Engineering, Center for Conservation & Biodiversity, Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Office of Environmental Policy, Center for Environmental Science & Engineering, School of Fine Arts, UConn School of Law, Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics, Natural Resources Management & Engineering, Geosciences Program, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and the departments of Economics, English, Geography, Philosophy, and Political Science.For further information about the Teale Lecture Series, or to suggest a future speaker, please contact
Kathleen Segerson, Lecture Series CoordinatorJean Nelson, Lecture Series Administrator
This page is maintained by J. Nelson.