December 2021 - Ese-faculty-list

FW: Grade Submission Fall 2021 Semester
by Musser, Christal A. 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

From: Ludiker, Keara R <kludiker(a)purdue.edu> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2021 4:59 PM To: ese-faculty-list(a)ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Grade Submission Fall 2021 Semester Importance: High Good afternoon, all, I am just sending a short and friendly reminder that the deadline to submit grades for this semester is by end of day tomorrow, Tuesday December 21st. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, I am happy to help in any way I can. All the best, Keara Keara R. Ludiker, M.S. she/her/hers Graduate Program Specialist - Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (OIGP) - The Graduate School Young Hall, Room B-40 155 South Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907 o: 765-494-0379 [9C90E4FB]<https://www.purdue.edu/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=…>

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ESE Completed Applications and Fellowship Nomination Opportunities
by Lee, Linda S 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Several applications to ESE are not completed. In my initial review, I have identify several that are strong applicants and would compete well for fellowships we have been given. The fellowship selection process of strong applicants relies heavily on faculty interests, open spots in research groups that align with the applicant interest, and if the area they are interested in is well-supported at Purdue. Some of you have already received applications to review if I thought the student aligned well with your area via file locker per my request to Keara. I will be sending several more in like fashion in the next few days. If after you review an application, please let me and Lera know if you have interest or not which will inform our admissions committee. ALSO, although we have an admissions committee, you can serve as one of the reviewers, which helps expedite all of our processes since we like to have 3 reviewers per app. If you are willing to do so, please let Keara know and for whom (can be included in the email you send about your interest or not in the student), and she can add it to your queue in slate. In some cases, we may process an accept for a student who you know you want and are strong without the detailed review process. I do not want to loss strong students to other institutions because we are not responding fast enough. Accepts are separate from funding offers, which can come after. Remember students have until April 15 to decide, but some will let us know early on. We have to keep the strong applicants engaged to ensure they do not accept another offer before getting our funding offer. ESE Fellowship Allocations 5 Lynns (1 grad school + 3 other) 2 Andrews (2 grad school + 2 other) Also for some students, I will be able to nominate them for other fellowships we do not control, etc. Linda S. Lee B480 Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086; lslee(a)purdue.edu<mailto:lslee@purdue.edu> Purdue University Dept. of Agronomy, Professor of Environmental Chemistry Division of Environmental Ecological Engineering COA Graduate Education and Research, Interim Asst. Dean Interdisciplinary Ecological Science & Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program, Program Head, www.purdue.edu/ese<http://www.purdue.edu/ese>

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A belated thank-you for your support for the BSC Open Letter Regarding the Upcoming Presidential Lecture on October 19, 2021
by Ma, Zhao 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Dear ESE colleagues, As we wrap up our Center for the Environment (C4E) Building Sustainable communities (BSC) group’s work for Fall 2021, we want to send you all a formal thank-you for your support to the BSC Open Letter Regarding the Upcoming Presidential Lecture on October 19, 2021. As discussed in the BSC monthly business meeting, we want to share the final Open Letter with over 300 signatories (please see attached) with everyone who participated in this important effort. We set out to address the following two objectives through this Open Letter and I think we have done well to address both: * For faculty, staff, students, and community members who were concerned and disappointed that Purdue was bringing this speaker, we wanted to let them know that they are not alone and that we understand and share their concerns and will continue to work hard to produce and communicate real climate science. * For faculty, staff, students, and community members who were concerned about climate change but had not had the opportunity to follow climate science on campus and more broadly, we wanted to let them know that this speaker does not represent the current state of knowledge in climate science and many of the speaker’s claims made in the past were misleading and harmful. A few media pieces and public postings were generated on this issue and related to our effort. I compiled these pieces below for our record to the extent I could. This list may not be exhaustive, but it demonstrates campus and community interests in real climate science and related efforts at Purdue. * The Exponent's piece titled " Steve Koonin speaks with Daniels in Presidential Lecture Series" published on Oct. 18, 2021: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_5e2c35ee-3155-11ec-96b8-030c7… * The Exponent's piece titled "Letter to the Editor: Climate change speaker refuted multiple times" published on Sept. 24, 2021: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_cff6f7c5-0082-5e5e-b3ed-43774… * The Executive Committee of the Purdue Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) endorsed our open letter on Oct. 25, 2021. This endorsement was posted on AAUP website at: http://aauppurdue.org/2021/10/aaup-sides-with-faculty-experts-against-disin… * WBAA's piece titled "Purdue University brings climate skeptic to campus as part of speaker series" published on Oct. 18, 2021: https://www.wbaa.org/post/purdue-university-brings-climate-skeptic-campus-p… * WFYI's piece titled "Purdue University brings climate skeptic to campus as part of speaker series" published on Oct. 19, 2021: https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/purdue-university-brings-climate-skeptic… * Dave Bangert’s piece titled “An ‘Unsettled’ Q&A: Why Mitch Daniels loves this author coming to Purdue; climate scientists … not so much” published on Oct. 18, 2021: https://davebangert.substack.com/p/an-unsettled-q-and-a-why-mitch-daniels I apologize for not sharing the final Open Letter and these links sooner, but I hope it’s still better late than never :) I want to make sure that you all know what your support and participation has enabled C4E BSC to achieve. Hope your end of semester is going smoothly. Zhao Zhao Ma, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Professor | University Faculty Scholar Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Purdue University 195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2033, USA +1-765-494-1790; zhaoma(a)purdue.edu<mailto:zhaoma@purdue.edu> Acknowledgement of Indigenous Caretakers: We acknowledge the traditional homelands of the Indigenous People which Purdue University is built upon. We honor and appreciate the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami), and Shawnee People who are the original Indigenous caretakers.

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