Andrew Revkin leaves NYT :: Becomes Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding @ Pace University

I saw this in the paper yesterday, but just received the below official announcement from Pace Law School Professor Ann Powers.

I took Survey of Environmental Laws, and Environmental Law: Skills and Practice with Professor Powers when I was a student @ Pace. She runs an awesome email list for current and former Pace Environmental Law students.

This is awesome news!


photo: Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin, one of the United States’ most eminent science reporters, is becoming Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University’s new interdisciplinary Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.

Revkin will be leaving The New York Times when he returns from his current assignment covering the Copenhagen summit on climate change, and will begin teaching when the spring term begins in late January.

Revkin has said that he wants to think and write about “the role of journalism in the larger world of environmental communication – how information matters in terms of policy and behavior.” He is starting what will be his third book for adults, about the interlinked issues of sustainability and population, and finishing the second of two books for children on environmental issues. The first has the ironic title “The North Pole Was Here.”

“We are extremely pleased that Andy Revkin is joining what we believe is one of the strongest university environmental programs in the nation,” said Geoffrey Bracket Brackett, DPhil (Oxon.), the University’s Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. “His intellectual expertise and ethical balance will make enormous contributions to helping the Pace Academy in its aim to be a global resource for policy development.”

The Pace Academy is a University-wide center with internationally known faculty members who concentrate on national and global environmental issues such as the water crisis and climate change.

Pace awarded Revkin an honorary doctorate in 2007.


About Pace University:
A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.

Over the years Pace has become well known for environmental education. The Pace Law School’s environmental program is consistently ranked among the top three in the US. The law school’s Environmental Legal Clinic, co led by Professors Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Karl Coplan, trains environmental lawyers who, while still students, have set national precedents in a number of cases involving the Hudson River.


photo: The Pace Environmental Law Clinic student offices, Fall 2002 semester - John, Michelle, Delight

When I was a Pace Environmental Law student I spent a semester with the Pace Law Land Use Law Center, and another semester with the Pace Law Environmental Litigation Clinic.


photo: Pace Clinic Student Attorneys and Professor Coplan in our strategy room, Fall 2002 semester

I got to work on this Esopus Creek case.


photo: Esopus Creek post-trial celebration in Albany, NY 2003. The Pace Team John (student), Karl (professor), Megan (student), Lisa (student), me & Bobby Kennedy (professor)


photo: Pace Law School Graduation Class of 2003

This fall Pace Law launched the first curriculum in the nation entirely dedicated to climate change, offered within the school’s Masters of Environmental Law (LLM) program.

In the last decade Pace University spearheaded formation of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities, an organization of more than 50 campuses in the Hudson watershed that collaborates on environmental studies and teaching.


Pace University @ COP15:
In Copenhagen, the Pace presence includes the former US Congressman and dean emeritus of Pace Law School, Richard Ottinger, a delegate for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, one of the largest global environmental nongovernmental organizations. Two Pace Law School Doctor of Juridical Science students are delegates, from the Marshall Islands and Pakistan, and a student in the school’s joint master’s program with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is serving as an observer.

The very awesome Dean Ottinger is blogging from COP15 daily - he writes the best summaries I've seen from anyone @ COP15:)


photo: Dean Ottinger