| During
the Spring semester 2005, seven Dickinson College Environmental Studies
and Science majors took a senior seminar taught by Professor Candie Wilderman
entitled, "Where the Rivers End: The Life and Death of Our Estuaries."
During this seminar, each student chose an interdisciplinary research topic
related to an environmental challenge in the lower Mississippi River basin.
The students then took the results of these senior research projects and
translated them into websites, in an effort to make the materials readily
available to future "Luce semester" students to provide a context
for further studies and exploration of these issues. In this way, our students
who graduated in 2005 (although born too late to be involved in the Luce
semester!) have left behind a legacy for the younger students, and have
begun the journey to increase our understanding and awareness of the environmental
challenges and the human context in the two regions to be studied during
the Luce semester. |
