Already home to a range of robust undergraduate programs and two interdisciplinary graduate-level collaborative specializations, the School of the Environment in the Faculty of Arts & Science is launching its first standalone graduate degree program, the Master of Environment & Sustainability (MES). A full-time, 12-month intensive study program, the MES will give students from a variety of academic backgrounds a […]
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School of the Environment launching first standalone graduate degree
Professor Debra Wunch Elected as Chair of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON)
Professor Debra Wunch, Department of Physics and School of the Environment, has been elected as the next Chair of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON), as well as Chair for the Americas. This is a major leadership role in a very important international observing network that is the gold standard for global measurements of […]
Professor Tanhum Yoreh’s new book examines the role of faith in a time of ecological crisis
Sometimes religion doesn’t catch up to current circumstances as fast as it needs to, says Tanhum Yoreh, a scholar of religion and environment and an assistant professor in the School of the Environment in the Faculty of Arts & Science. Yoreh’s new book, Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic, aims to build bridges between ancient wisdom and contemporary global […]
Professor Stephen Scharper: A prodigal church re-welcomes a gay pastor
Professor Stephen Scharper writes about the emotional homecoming of Rev. Ralph Carl Wushke who was exiled from the Lutheran Church in 1988. Tears, and applause, flowed through the standing-room-only gathering at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church near Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. Bishops and church leaders asked for forgiveness, for their treatment, not only of […]
