Happy Friday!

We hope everyone had a smooth first week of classes and is excited to embark on their studies this semester! At the Office of the Sustainability, this has been a successful and productive first week back, as we are now connected through Hoot Suite to our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages!

Here’s a list of where to find us on the internet:
Twitter: @chathamsustain
Facebook: facebook.com/chathamsustain
Instagram: chathamsustain

There are a number of upcoming sustainability-focused events on-campus and in Pittsburgh, so make sure to follow us on Twitter, as we update that with event information most often! You can also check out the Greener Pittsburgh events calendar at http://www.greenerpittsburgh.com/community/green-event-calendar for a list of area events.

For next week, make sure to mark your calendars for…The Chatham University MFA in Creative Writing Program presents: Reading and Book Signing by Ashton Nichols. Tuesday, January 14 at 5:00 pm in the Beckwith Auditorium.

About the author: Ashton Nichols is the Walter E. Beach ’56 Chair in Sustainability Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Revolutionary “I”: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation and The Poetics of Epiphany: Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Modern Literary Moment, and the editor of Romantic Natural Histories: Wordsworth, Darwin, and Others. He has published articles in The Wordsworth Circle, ISLE, and The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, among numerous other journals. He is currently completing Thoreau’s Walden: An Ecocritical Edition.

Make sure to also sign up for the next installment of the Inspire Speakers Series at Phipps Conservatory on Thursday, January, 16! Details are in the previous post.

Have a great weekend!