Recycling and conservation are two options to make the place we call home a little better Author: Elisabeth Tharp Updated: 10:23 PM CDT April 22, 2021
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, today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world.
It’s said Earth Day is marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy change.
“People go to Kroger and there’s bread on the shelves, they don’t realize there’s bread on the shelves because the climate allows us to grow the grain that we use to make that bread,” Texas A&M Professor Andrew Dessler said, “If the climate changes a lot, a lot of the things we take for granted, might not be there.”
Recipients of the 2021 Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award feel honored to be among inspiring honorees.
Ten Texas A&M faculty members were chosen to receive the award this year, including Don Conlee, Ph.D.; Tatiana Erukhimova, Ph.D.; Simi Gunaseelan, Ph.D.; Soon Mi Lim, Ph.D.; Sharon Matthews, Ph.D.; John Murphy, J.D.; Jayne Reuben, Ph.D.; Dr. Jennifer Schleining; Kristi Shryock, Ph.D.; and Radhika Viruru, Ph.D. These individuals will be able to use their titles as award winners for life, as long as they remain in good standing with the university.
According to the Office of the Provostâs website, winners will also receive a $5,000 cash stipend.
This week’s killer freeze in the U.S. was no surprise. Government and private meteorologists saw it coming, some nearly three weeks in advance. They started