This past semester, students in the Environmental Studies major ventured off-campus to study ecological wonders of New England. ENVI 101 (Intro to Environmental Studies) students went to Pontoosuc Lake to take water samples and analyze for things like dissolved oxygen, pH levels and living organisms that demonstrate the health of the lake. ENVI 360 (Methods […]
Entries from April 2008
Environmental Studies students in their natural habitat.
December 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: Environmental Studies · Faculty · MCLA · Student Life
Rare photo donated to school
December 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment
NORTH ADAMS, MA – Local resident Doris Anthony brought a piece of history home to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Wednesday when she donated a rare photograph of the first faculty of what was then the North Adams Normal School to the Freel Library.
Taken in the late 1890s, the photograph depicts Principal Frank Murdock, […]
Tags: Alumni · College History · MCLA
Praise for MCLA Philosophy Professor Silliman’s latest book
December 20th, 2006 · No Comments
This is just a sampling of the reviews of Sentience and Sensibility, a book this blog highlighted several weeks a go.
“[Sentience and Sensibility] is a lively philosophical dialogue on the moral status of living things, human and otherwise. The protagonist defends a multi-level account on which we have direct moral obligations to all and only […]
Tags: MCLA · Matthew R. Silliman · Philosophy · Publications
