Respectfully concur with Professor Heber,
in the spirit of open discourse in the marketplace of ideas
at a leading Land Grant university. Dr. Koonin certainly
seems to have credibility with many informed people. If we
are a confident, dutiful faculty standing for academic
freedom in the American tradition, then we should let Dr.
Koonin speak.
Thank you.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Randy R. Rapp, D.Mgt,
PE, CCP
Purdue Polytechnic School of
Construction Mgmt. Tech.
(765) 494-8420
Dr. Ma,
I am opposed to
this attempt to cancel Dr. Koonin’s “Conversation about
Climate and Energy”. He recently published a book entitled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells
Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters”. He has
impeccable credentials and should be given the opportunity to
speak on campus.
Respectfully,
Albert J. Heber,
Ph.D., PE
Professor Emeritus
Agricultural and
Biological Engineering
Purdue University
205 S. University
St.
West Lafayette, IN
47907
Phone:
765-412-4201
Cell: 765-412-4201
Email:
heber@purdue.edu
Dear members of the Purdue community,
We are members of the Purdue University
Center for the Environment (C4E) Building Sustainable
Communities (BSC) Signature Research Area (SRA). We are
writing to share with you an Open Letter written by members
of our SRA to express our concerns about the upcoming
Presidential Lecture on October 19, 2021.
We recognize that this Open Letter may
not completely reflect the feelings and thoughts of each of
us; at the same time, we feel it is important to have a
response to the upcoming Presidential Lecture. More
specifically, if you are also concerned about this upcoming
Presidential Lecture, we want to let you know that you are
not alone, and we understand and share your concerns. If you
are concerned about climate change but have not had the
opportunity to follow climate science on campus and more
broadly, we want to let you know that the upcoming
Presidential Lecture 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.
We invite you to read and sign our Open
Letter to demonstrate your concerns about this upcoming
Presidential Lecture and to support rigorous, evidence-based
climate science on campus and more broadly.
You can read our Open Letter
here.
You can sign our Open Letter
here.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Members of the C4E Building Sustainable
Communities SRA
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@purdue.edu
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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.