For the last couple of decades the University of Maryland has picked a
book that is provided to all first-year students to read during the
summer before they matriculate. Faculty in courses that first-year
students are likely to take can try to incorporate the book, or ideas
from it, in their classes. If you have suggestions about a book that
might work to provide a shared intellectual experience for first-year
students and the campus community that is related to the general topic
of "sustainability", I'd be interested to hear them.
Some past books have included:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
The Ravaging Tide, by Mike Tidwell
The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver
What is What, by Dave Eggers
The Influencing Machine, by Brooke Gladstone
The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
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Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
ino...@umd.edu
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224
