Environmental studies is beginning to attract the big money. The latest example is at Dartmouth University, which has just revealed a $2.5 million alumni gift to endow a professorship in the field. The inaugural holder of the Richard and Jane Pearl Professorship in Environmental Studies will be Andrew Friedland, the current chair of Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program.
According to Dartmouth, Friedland's research focuses on the effect of atmospheric pollutants on high-elevation forests, as well as on how our individual energy choices affects the environment. Friedland, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has been on Dartmouth's faculty since 1987. He is also a co-founder of Dartmouth's graduate program in Earth, Ecosystem, and Ecological Sciences.
Dartmouth currently offers undergraduate majors in environmental studies and environmental earth sciences. It also offers both master's and Ph.D degrees in earth sciences.
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