Join us for a conversation with Brian Donahue, scholar, farmer, forester, and author of the new book Slow Wood: Green Building from Local Forests, published by Yale University Press. 

Bell numbers count the number of ways that n objects can be sorted into any number of buckets. They were studied and named after Scottish-American mathematician E.T. Bell who wrote about them in the 1930’s, but their study actually dates back much further. We will introduce the topic from scratch, investigate some of its interesting properties, learn more about the intriguing character E.T. Bell, and delve deeper into the history of Bell numbers and their connection to Russian dolls and to an ancient Japanese incense game!

1. Sujay Banerjee
2. Camilla Salwen
3. Roeskva Torhalsdottir

1. William McCarthy
2. Peyton Smith

1. Taylor Han
2. Maya Henning

In this Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk students currently enrolled in ENVS 0401 A Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum with present work from their semester long community-engaged projects.

1. Ciara Murphy
2. Seth Boffa

1. Elle Thompson
2. Kayley Porter

In this Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk students currently enrolled in ENVS 0401 B Community-Engaged Environmental Studies Practicum with present work from their semester long community-engaged projects.