Jean-Michel Cousteau speaks as part of Capstone Speaker Series
Source: Pat Whitney, Staff Writer, The Madison Courier
Jean-Michel Cousteau speaks to a full house at Parker Auditorium about the importance of conservation and sustained living to protect the oceans and the world as a whole during his presentation at Hanover College on Tuesday.
Simple lifestyle changes can preserve the environment, Begley tells Hanover crowd
Source: Pat Whitney, Staff Writer, The Madison Courier
When it comes to global climate change and snowballing environmental crises, the solutions can be as overwhelming as the problems. But Hollywood actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr., speaking on the environment at Hanover College on Tuesday night, encouraged an audience of 350 that simple lifestyle changes can make a difference.
Begley, Cousteau to speak at Hanover for Capstone Project
Source: Staff Writer, Madison Courier
Hanover College has announced that Ed Begley, Jr. and Jean-Michel Cousteau will be the next two speakers for the Capstone Project on Global Climate Change, sponsored by the Rivers Institute and the Center for Free Inquiry.
Richard Leakey Speaks at Hanover College
Source: Pat Whitney, Staff Writer, The Madison Courier
Searching for answers to humanity's past and future, about 900 people flocked into a Hanover College auditorium to hear paleoanthropologist and environmentalist Richard Leakey on Monday and Tuesday.
Ohio River Valley Folk Festival
The 3rd Annual Ohio River Valley Folk Festival will celebrate American heritage by combining folk music, storytellers, and traditional food. The Rivers Institute will present, "Li'l Folks," educational activities for children that explore Madison's history as a river town. More...
Jane Goodall gave her talk titled "A Reason for Hope" as part of the Hanover Capstone Speaker Series. Jane Goodall travels more than 300 days per year to discuss her life and work, her reasons for hope, and the power each of us has to make a difference, every moment of every day. More...
Jean-Michel Cousteau presented his talk titled "The Great Ocean Adventure" as part of the Hanover Capstone Speaker Series. For more than four decades, explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer Jean-Michel Cousteau has used his vast experience to communicate to people of all nations and generations his love and concern for our water planet. More...
Hanover College Summer Academy: Enviromental Science Institute
At Hanover, we teach science by doing science. During the Environmental Science Institute, you will get hands-on field experience with faculty and students in geology, biology, chemistry and astronomy. More...
The Rivers Institute is collaborating with the Center for Free Inquiry and the Center for Business Preparation (two of Hanover's other Centers of Excellence) to produce the Hanover Capstone in the 2007-08 academic year; this is the inaugural year for the Capstone program. Each year the Hanover Capstone will explore an issue of contemporary importance. The topic chosen for this year is global climate change. The capstone will include a variety of elements, beginning with several public lectures by well-known and respected authorities on this important and timely topic. This series of lectures will present the issue's fundamental elements in a way that will allow you to take those concepts and explore the issue's multiple dimensions throughout the year. Additional speakers will explore the topic in greater detail in a major symposium during each semester. More...