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Nature & The Environment: The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series

Edwin Way Teale

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.

The Creative Writing Program is sponsoring a Teale Essay Contest this Fall. More information.

All lectures are free, open to the public and held at 4:00 pm in the Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, unless otherwise noted.
For a copy of the flyer, click here (in Adobe PDF format)



October 16, 2008

J.B. Ruhl, Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property Law
Florida State University College of Law
"Ecosystem Services Science & Policy - A New Old Idea Finally Comes of Age"


November 6, 2008

"Forces of Nature"
The Connecticut Repertory Theatre will present a staged reading of "Forces of Nature", a play about three environmental pioneers - John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. The play was written by Stephen Most for the Connecticut Forest and Park Association.
NOTE - This presentation is at the Nafe Katter Theater - 7pm
The Performance is free and open to the public. No tickets or previous reservations are required.



November 20, 2008

Don Scavia, Professor and Michigan Sea Grant Director
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
"Water: A continuous fluid in a fragmented policy framework"



February 5, 2009

Bud Ward, Editor
The Yale Forum on Climate Change and The Media
"Bridging the Science/Journalism Gap in a Time of Epochal Change"



March 5, 2009

Catherine Potvin, Professor
Department of Biology, McGill University
"Forest carbon stocks and land-use: Reconciling the international agenda with the needs of indigenous populations"



April 2, 2009

Michael Mares
Presidential Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma and Distinguished Research Curator of Mammals
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
"Sun Tzu and the Art of War: How the Battle of Museums to Survive Has a Negative Impact on Nature and the Environment"


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 Coordinator
Jean Nelson, Lecture Series Administrator

This page is maintained by J. Nelson.