Faculty & Staff - Receive a Professional Development Certificate
Attend Convocation Day
Create an incentive for your students to attend
Encourage your colleagues to come
If you attend please call Cheryl at Ext. 5021 and a certificate will be sent to you.
Keynote Speaker
Elizabeth Kolbert traveled from Alaska to Greenland, visiting top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker (which won the 2005 National Magazine Award in the category Public Interest), Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Changeheightens awareness of the evidence of global warming and asks what America’s public and private response to climate change should be.In her book, Kolbert explains the scientific studies that have addressed global warming, draws frightening parallels between the world today and lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics of environmental policies, and presents the personal tales of those whom are being affected most – the people who make their homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing of global climate change, are watching their worlds disappear. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by the New York Times Book Review.
For more information, please contact Irene Byrnes at 778-5311
or by email.
The current members of the
Convocation Committee are
Irene Byrnes, David Chirico,
Mary Dickson, Doug Garnar,
Michael Gee, Troy Jesse,
David Maslar, Debra Morello,
Jillian Reid, Jackie Shrader,
and Melanie Williams.
Elizabeth Kolbert traveled from Alaska to Greenland, visiting top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker (which won the 2005 National Magazine Award in the category Public Interest), Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change heightens awareness of the evidence of global warming and asks what America’s public and private response to climate change should be. In her book, Kolbert explains the scientific studies that have addressed global warming, draws frightening parallels between the world today and lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics of environmental policies, and presents the personal tales of those whom are being affected most – the people who make their homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing of global climate change, are watching their worlds disappear. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by the New York Times Book Review. 
