Trey Crumpton, an MS student in Environmental Science, has cleared the Baylor Institutional Review Board and is preparing to interview long-term residents in Independence, Texas and the surrounding area. Trey is investigating management of trees, forests and fence rows after settlement, at the time Baylor was established, and in response to more recent economic trends. Trey’s project is funded by an endowment provided by Gus Glasscock to Baylor Arts and Sciences.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Book chapter published in “Deep Blue”
Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water, just published by Equinox Press for2008 includes a chapter (9) by Susan Bratton entitled “The spirit of the edge: Rachel Carson and numinous experience between land and sea.”Â
Capstone class assists with Brazos-Bosque corridor
The capstone course has been getting real environmental planning experience by mapping riparian buffer zones and distributing information on the survey of public interest conducted in early October 2008.
Article submitted to Religion, Nature and Culture
In October 2008, Susan Bratton submitted a manuscript entitled “Water, Purity, Politics and Radical Ritual Transition in Early Roman Christian Art” to the journal Religion, Nature, and Culture.  The manuscript concerns early church preference for depicting baptism with flowing water.Â
Undergrad, Sara Garza publishes paper in The Pulse
Sara Garza has a paper entitled “Impact of Ligustrum lucidum on leaf morphology, chlorophyll, and flower morphology of white trout lily (Erythronium albidium) in Cameron Park
Waco, TX” accepted by Baylor’s undergraduate journal The Pulse. The study is based on Sara’s work in spring 08 on a small grant from URSA.