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Sustainability Events

Explore Your Future Career in Sustainability

Mitch Thomashow

  • President Emeritus, Unity College
  • Author, Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist and Bringing the Biosphere Home
  • Presidential Fellow, Second Nature

Judith Ramaley

  • President Emerita, Winona State University
  • Senior Scholar, Association of American Colleges and Universities
  • Presidential Fellow, Second Nature

Diana Van Der Ploeg

  • President Emerita, Butte College
  • Presidential Fellow, Second Nature

Discuss and explore opportunities with some true trail blazers in the field of sustainability—Second Nature's Presidential Fellows Mitch Thomashow, Judith Ramaley, and Diana Van Der Ploeg.

As a graduate student, you can attend any or all of the following free sessions:

Panel Discussion
The presidential fellows will answer your questions like:
• What skills should sustainability students who want to work in academia acquire while in school?
• What techniques are recommended to articulate and market skills and experience?
• What events and/or professional networks would best support students who want to work in academia?
• What are some meaningful dissertation topics?

Luncheon
Following the panel discussion, please join the presidential fellows for an informal luncheon in Wrigley Hall, Room 323. Please RSVP below.

Presidential Fellow Individual Meetings
The presidential fellows will also be available to meet with graduate students for individual office appointments from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. but space is limited. To sign up for an appointment, contact Kimberly Grout.

If you have specific topics or issues that you want the panel to address, email Rider Foley.

For graduate students only.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Discussion: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Old Main, Carson Ballroom

Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Luncheon: Following discussion
Wrigley Hall, Room 323
Arizona State University, Tempe campus