In the Spring 2024 semester, the Environmental Law Program has teamed up with faculty across UMB and College Park campuses to provide an interdisciplinary course focused on climate change. Climate Change, Health, and Society is a seminar offered through the University’s Graduate School Program and offered to students across the University System, with faculty from the Schools of Law, Medicine, Nursing, Social Work and the Marine-Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) graduate program.
In the inaugural class this semester, law, medical and MEES graduate students are exploring climate science, health impacts, societal impacts and the law and policies governing climate change. Students will be working in interdisciplinary teams to develop plans to address climate change and its impacts, with a focus on Maryland.
In the Fall of 2024, we will be holding a climate change symposium highlighting the students’ work as well as what climate change means for Maryland’s future and how we can better adapt. The hope is to build programmatic, interdisciplinary climate change offerings with Climate Change, Health, and Society as its foundation.
The faculty contributing to the course include:
Shiladitya DasSarma (School of Medicine)
Timothy Canty (Marine-Estuarine Environmental Sciences)
Marianne Cloeren (School of Medicine)
Robyn Gilden (School of Nursing)
Shailvi Gupta (School of Medicine)
Mathew Laurens (School of Medicine)
Lynn Michalopoulos (School of Social Work)
Snehal Patel (School of Medicine)
William Piermattei (School of Law)
Karin Russ (School of Nursing and School of Law – an alum of our Environmental Law Program!)