Category: Environmental Studies
Lecture Focuses on Preservation’s Green Side
Jean Carroon, author of “Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings” and a principal at Goody Clancy, a Boston-based design and planning firm, will present a lecture on sustainable preservation at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 in the 1948 Theater in the Fitness and Athletics Center at Sweet Briar College. Carroon will talk about the need to [...]
Professor Remembered Through Living Memorial
Professor Dave Orvos arrived at Sweet Briar in 2000 to help establish the College’s environmental studies department. A biologist and toxicologist with experience in industry and teaching, he created a major in environmental science and helped develop the newly expanded environmental studies major while building the department as its first chair. David Robert Orvos died [...]
Sweet Briar Mourns Professor
The Sweet Briar community was saddened to learn of the death of David Orvos on Tuesday, Dec. 28. He is survived by his wife, Andrea, and son, Michael. Professor Orvos taught environmental science in the environmental studies program, which he helped found when he came to Sweet Briar more than 10 years ago. A beloved [...]
Waxter Forum Speaker Sees Bright Green Future
Amanda Little told an audience at Sweet Briar College Thursday evening that she began rethinking who is to blame for America’s energy crisis when she looked at her own desk. She took in the furniture, iPhone, computer — even the corn muffin — nearly all of it derived from petrochemicals in some way. The byproducts [...]
Waxter Forum Speaker Discusses ‘Power Trip’
Sweet Briar College will present award-winning environmental journalist Amanda Little as its 2010 Waxter Environmental Forum speaker at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 in Memorial Chapel. Admission is free. Little will discuss her book, “Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair with Energy,” which explores the nation’s energy crisis by traveling “into the heart [...]
Green Technology in Head-turning Vehicles
Talk about kicking the tires and looking under the hood. What began as a class demonstration in Professor Dave Orvos’ environmental issues introductory course morphed into a nearly campus-wide test drive of the Chrysler GEM car. GEM stands for Global Electric Motorcars. Michelle Brown ’14 gets behind the wheel of an all-electric GEM truck to [...]
Environmental Science Major Hosts Meeting in Hometown
Sweet Briar College senior Heather Riggleman will host a town hall meeting, “Focusing on our Energy Future,” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 at the Carver-Price Cultural Center, located at 106 Patricia Lane in Appomattox, Va.
SBC Naturalist-in-Residence Talks about AT Adventures
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, Sweet Briar College’s naturalist-in-residence, Mike Hayslett will present, “Mountaintop Summer: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail.”
Deer Excluded in Pursuit of Research
Two Odocoileus virginianus cruising the northern base of Monument Hill for tasty shoots poking through the forest floor stop suddenly.”What the heck?” one mutters to the other. “Hal, do you see that?” Before the white-tailed deer is a black mesh fence, nearly invisible in the gloaming light but for the yellow and white plastic flags tied along its length. Inside the roughly 49- by 33-foot enclosure, is nothing different than what is outside the fence — yet.
Film Highlights the ‘Incredible’ in Butterflies’ Annual Flight
Sweet Briar College biologist Lincoln Brower was a featured researcher in a documentary on monarch butterflies that premiered Jan. 27 on the Public Broadcasting Service science series NOVA. “The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies” follows the 2,000-mile migration of the monarchs from Canada to their overwintering grounds in the mountains of central Mexico.
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