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The aim of the Howard University SEEDS Chapter is to nurture students pursuing a professional career in environmental science through education, career development, and community service. The SEEDS Chapter also seeks to strengthen the environmental science community at Howard University by allowing students to connect more easily with the many exciting opportunities provided by the SEEDS program of the Ecological Society of America. |
This Chapter currently has an inactive status with the SEEDS program.
Plans for 2009-2010.
- A campus educational activity related to recycling. Further campus-wide recruitment. Hosting environmental speakers on campus. Further collaboration with the HUES group on campus. Community outreach and service activities in collaboration with the Anacostia Watershed Society. Exploration of the possibility of constructing rain gardens on campus.
Activities of 2008-2009
The SEEDS Chapter launched a major recruitment effort on campus in 2009-2010. The SEEDS chapter also developed a collaboration with the HUES group on campus (Howard University Environmental Society). The SEEDS chapter (in collaboration chapter with HUES) focused on developing environmental awareness on campus and promoting campus ecology particularly in light of the SIERRA club publication of a list that included Howard University among campuses that “fail” in efforts to promote campus ecology. We worked hard to bring this issue into prominence among the administrators at Howard. The major criterion for the SIERRA club designation for Howard was its lack of campus recycling. The SEEDS chapter led the effort on campus to restore our defunct recycling program.
In addition the SEEDS Chapter helped to host four environmental seminars on campus:
- Sept 10, 2008
- Russell Chapman, Executive Director, Center for Marine Biodiversity and
Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA
“Silent Seas: Ocean Biology - Past, Present, and Future
- Russell Chapman, Executive Director, Center for Marine Biodiversity and
- Nov 5, 2008
- Aaron Ellison, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Forest, Harvard University,
Petersham, MA
"What do they do with all those ants? Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants"
- Aaron Ellison, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Forest, Harvard University,
- Nov 19, 2008
- Dave Carr, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
“Mating-system effects on ecological interactions in the genus Mimulus”
- Dave Carr, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Feb 25, 2009
- Quintaniay Holifield USDA Forest Service, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
Baltimore, MD
“Understanding and quantifying changes in basic ecological functions due to urbanization”
- Quintaniay Holifield USDA Forest Service, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
- Several of our members were engaged in conducting ecological research, and five members presented their results at the NSF HBCU-UP Program Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2008 and at the Howard University College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. One member, Iman Sylvain also presented her research at the American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting in Arlington, VA in May 2009. Iman Sylvain won the Best Student Poster Award for her research presentation at AIBS. Iman Sylvain was also selected as a SEEDS Fellow for 2009-2010.
Faculty Advisor
- Dr. Mary A. McKenna
