The RSS feed for news at CERC http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.xml Voice of America (VOA) about mothers and mothering in the non-human world. CERC's Shahid Naaem and Marina Cords were interviewed for the story. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#naeem_cords_voa CERC just announced a new set of Certificate courses to be offered in May and June http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#cerc_certificate_courses Three CERC staff members accompanied Columbia fellows from CERC and LDEO's Learning through Environmental Earth and Field Studies (LEEFS) program to the annual NSF GK-12 conference. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#nsf_conference_03_09 The eight enthusiastic students that participated in CERC's spring break field course on Coral Reef Ecology have returned and created a website that documents their time Bermuda. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#certificate_program_students_return Debra Tillinger, a PhD student from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will soon be leaving on a research expedition to the Philippines. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#on_the_high_seas_02_20_09 Miguel Pinedoz-Vasquez is currently in the Pervuian Amazon where he is working with local farmers on CERC's Family Forestry Project. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#in_the_field_02_20_09 CERC has recently announced the new class of six young conservationists from Latin America who with $20,000 grants will pursue two-year projects aimed at protecting diverse ecosystems. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#overbrook_02_01_09 Dinner for LEEFS fellows and teachers at CERC. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#leefs_dinner_01_15_09 CERC proudly hosted an evening of ethnobotany and Caribbean culture with Dr. Ina Vandebroek from The New York Botanical Garden. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#ina_vandebroek_series_11_19_08 Dr. Boi, a forester and Director of the Center for Assistance in Nature Conservation and Community in Hanoi, Vietnam has been working for the past several decades addressing the impacts of herbicides and defoliants used during the Vietnam War on the Vietnamese forests and its residents. He was joined by reporter Christie Aschwanden and videographer George Lerner who traveled to Vietnam to produce the project "Vietnam: War's Lasting Legacy," sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#speaker_series_11_12_08 Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up for a drink at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. There is a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#green_drinks_11_11_08 The Earth Institute, CERC and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) hosted a welcoming reception for Ruth DeFries,  Denning Family Professor in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. See gallery of the reception. http://cerc.columbia.edu/news.html#ruth_defries_reception_10_20_08