The Advisory Board of the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies invites their colleagues to explore curricular development and expansion and possible EKI faculty appointments that support topics related to "Environmental Challenges and Responses." The Advisory Board expects that expanding our offerings in topics related to this area will entail a combination of existing faculty members offering new courses and the appointment of new faculty members bringing pertinent expertise and/or freeing up existing faculty members to develop and teach these courses. Topics related to this broad area include:

• Cultural and artistic responses
• Energy
• Environmental policy
• Ethics
• Public health
• Resource distribution and consumption
• Sustainability and sustainability science

Environmental issues cross all disciplines. The Advisory Board conceives of "Environmental Challenges and Responses" in broad terms that can support proposals from every division and can cross divisional lines. In addition to the topics listed above, we hope to identify other related topics at this lunch.

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007 in JRC 209

Organizers: Advisory Board of the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Attending:
Jon Andelson
Lawrence Aspler
Dionne Bensonsmith
Gail Bonath
Keith Brouhle
Jackie Brown
Eric Carter
Janet Davis
Lesley Delmenico
Vince Eckhart
Bill Ferguson
Brigittine French
Christopher French
Richard Fyffe
Michael Guenther
Kathy Jacobson
Peter Jacobson
Cecilia Knight
Elaine Marzluff
Kent McClelland
Wayne Moyer
Tammy Nyden-Bullock
Liz Queathem
Sam Rebelsky
Tyler Roberts
Monty Roper
Lee Running
Mark Schneider
Lee Sharpe
Diana Shull
Pablo Silva
Marci Sortor
Karen Wiese
Lesley Wright
Jeremy Youde