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<p class="MsoNormal">That’s great for Duane and Tom. We should post this on our social media feed.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, how do we get such news featured on our departmental webpage, Edna? Our webpages are quite static and it would be nice to have a way to link to OU news stories about our faculty and student achievements to be featured.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> GeographyList <geographylist-bounces@listserv.ohio.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Wangui, Edna<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 23, 2023 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> geographylist@listserv.ohio.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OU_GEOG] Kudos, Work Study, and Geology<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In this email you will find the following news/updates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kudos to Duane and Tom<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;list-style-type:"2. "">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Work study update - Mya McCarthy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;list-style-type:"3. "">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1a. Please join me in congratulating Duane who will soon receive the prestigious Blue and Gold Award from his almer mater Montana State University. Duane will be receiving the award later this
month. I have pasted a description of the award below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">This award was created in 1968 and is the most prestigious award granted by Montana State University. It honors individuals who have rendered great lifetime service
or who have brought national or international distinction to MSU or the state of Montana. Candidates must have achieved prominence through a combination of his or her profession, family, country, world, university, philanthropy or humanity. Recipients are
recommended by the MSU Alumni Foundation Board of Governors, to the President of the University and are celebrated at various events during Homecoming Weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1b. Kudos to Tom who has received funding from the Office of Global Opportunities to continue offering a 2-week virtual international exchange module on Social and Biological Dimensions of Wildlife
Conservation in Kenya. The module gives students access to conservation policy experts and practitioners pioneering new approaches to community-based conservation. The module is incorporated into GEOG 3430: Global Issues in Environment and BIOS 4810: Animal
Conservation Biology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">2. HR informed me a couple of days ago that Mya McCarthy (our Work Study student) no longer qualifies for work study. She will no longer be able to work for Geography. HR is working with me to
find a replacement for Mya. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">3. Below is the message that I sent to Geology. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion and commented on an earlier draft. Greg wrote back to let me know that they would incorporate
our comments in a revised proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">Thank you for your patience as Geography faculty evaluated the proposed name change for the Department of Geological Sciences. We appreciate the opportunity to comment on
this proposal at this early stage. Geography faculty members discussed the proposed changes at our faculty meeting on September 8. They expressed some concerns.</span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">Geography faculty members felt that the proposed name change would be confusing to OU students. The proposed name would be abbreviated EES which is very similar to the new
ESS major. Geography, Geological Sciences and other departments contribute to the ESS curriculum and we also share in student advising. We would like to avoid this confusion.</span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">More importantly, the proposed name (Earth and Environmental Sciences) is too broad and too inclusive of content taught in other departments at OU, including substantial content
taught in Geography. For example, “environmental science” involves the life sciences and chemistry, in addition to content taught in geology. Similarly, “earth science” would incorporate atmospheric sciences (meteorology) and the study of the biosphere (biogeography,
ecology, etc), which again extends beyond geological sciences and into Geography and other disciplines. </span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">The example programs that use the term "Department of Earth and Environmental Science" are doctoral programs that offer a much more comprehensive curriculum than OU Geological
Sciences. Other schools that contain a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences include Columbia University, University of Minesota, University of Iowa, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of Illionois at Chicago, Michigan
State University, etc.</span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">Geography faculty members felt that your current name Geology is still favored across the world and is a well-recognized discipline. Additionally, geography faculty felt that “Environmental
Geoscience” may be a more accurate representation of what you do than the more general “Environmental and Earth Sciences”.</span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="color:#242424">A few important corrections:</span></span><span style="color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">The new ESS major is not housed in Plant Biology, it is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#242424;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white;list-style-type:"2. "">
<span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Table 1 does not include the name of our new major (Climate, Environment and Society)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">
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