TAMIU ESI
Upcoming Events:
Interested in pollution and the need for science to regulate pollution?
Come see a TAMIU-ESI Distinguished Lecture.
Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Understanding Chemical Tricks that Impact Environmental Regulations
Presenter: Dr. Diana S. Aga - Henry M. Woodburn Chair & SUNY Distinguished Professor from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Buffalo
Learn about:
- How problematic chemicals that were once banned are being modified and end up presenting similar or worse environmental hazards
- How some environmental pollutants escape detection in the environment and may mislead environmental regulations
- Examples of environmental pollutants that have no commercial or domestic use, yet have been introduced intentionally or accidentally into the environment causing deleterious effects.
- How important science communication is for the general public to understand regulations made by federal agencies
Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Student Center (STC) 236, 6 - 7 p.m.
Open to the Community
The TAMIU Environmental Studies Initiative (TAMIU-ESI) seeks to identify, engage, and constructively resolve environmental issues stemming from human (in)action. We strive to do this through academic and community-based activities. Academically, TAMIU-ESI harnesses an array of disciplines to explore the complex relationship between human society and the environment. We leverage concepts, techniques, and methodologies from disciplines comprising the Environmental Humanities, Sciences (both social and physical), as well as the fine and performing arts, film, business, education, public administration, criminal justice and more to foster a holistic understanding of human-driven environmental issues and produce implementable and sustainable solutions for society. Additionally, TAMIU-ESI aims to partner with organizations and institutions across the community, from local to international, to effect environmentally-focused interventions, studies, and/or social events that bring awareness to, and engage, the complexities of our human/environment relationship and the challenges therein. Altogether, TAMIU-ESI promotes a vision of scholarly and community collaboration that addresses environmental issues impacting society.
The Environmental Studies Initiative (ESI) at TAMIU aspires to enhance TAMIU’s mission and vision to foster a comprehensive and scientifically literate, humanistic view of the relationship between human society and the natural environment in our border region and beyond. ESI seeks to remove barriers that have traditionally separated the sciences and the humanities and to mitigate the persistent compartmentalization of knowledge into self-contained disciplines. By building bridges among multiple fields of enquiry, ESI attempts to overcome the quandary induced by such division.
ESI assumes a mandate to integrate environmental consciousness into the core of our students’ larger educational formation, through both curricular and extra-curricular action. These actions are in the making yet are on the horizon of our inbound engagement with our natural environment/region/home.