The Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture series is underway at Tufts University for the 2024-25 academic year. Every week, the free lectures feature speakers from government, industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations to give presentations on environmental topics.
Members of the community are welcome to attend the one-hour lectures, which take place at noon on Thursdays in the multipurpose room of Curtis Hall, 474 Boston Ave. (the building at the intersection with College Ave. with the post office attached). The lectures also are live-streamed for online viewing, and archived on the series
YouTube channel.
With the series celebrating its 40th year, most of the 2024-25 speakers will be Tufts alumni. Here is the schedule of remaining speakers and topics for the fall semester:
Sep. 12: Tackling Carbon, Resilience, and Ambivalence: Lessons Learned From One Decade in Sustainable Architecture (Elaine Hoffman, A10)
Sep. 19: Mounting Risks to Wetlands: A Journalist’s Perspective (Miranda Willson, A17)
Sep. 26: Managing the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Budget (Caroline Higley, A16)
Oct. 3: The Complexities of Community-Led Climate Solutions From an Outsider (Andrea Savage, A06)
Oct. 10: The Sacred Waters of Blake Plateau: When Ocean Conservation Meets Cultural History (Valerie Cleland, A15)
Oct. 17: Climate Action: Equitable Resilience Solutions (Joyce Coffee, A93)
Oct. 24: Accelerating the Transition to Zero-Emission Transportation (Jordan Stutt, A11)
Oct. 31: From Tufts to the National Parks of Boston: A Career Connecting People to Parks (Marc Albert, A90)
Nov. 7: Finding Success through Self Advocacy as a Black Woman in Toxics Use Reduction (Kayla Powers, A19)
Nov. 14: The Intersection of Law and Conservation – Private Environmental Enforcement (Keith Ainsworth, A87)
Nov. 21: A Rural Agrarian Reckoning: Multigenerational Farmers Seeking to Repair Soil, Agriculture, and Rural America Itself (Sydney Giacalone, A17)
Dec. 5: Climate in the Roman World (Brandon McDonald)
Visit the
series web page for more details on each speaker and links to register for online viewing.