{"id":131390,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=131390"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:49:52","slug":"today-environmental-and-natural-resource-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/today-environmental-and-natural-resource-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Today! Environmental and Natural Resource Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Ohio Wesleyan will host a <strong>free lunch symposium today, April 27,<\/strong>\u00a0to explore how recent federal policy changes and executive orders could impact the\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">OWU faculty member Will Georgic, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics, will moderate the panel discussion. This year\u2019s panelists are Laurel Anderson, Ph.D., the Morris Family Professor of Natural Sciences, and Franchesca Nestor, Ph.D., associate professor of Politics and Government. Their discussion will highlight the developments they consider among the most concerning in federal environmental policy over the past 15 months, and include time for audience questions and conversation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The 2026 Environmental and Natural Resource Symposium will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. in Room 301 of Merrick Hall. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Lunch will be provided.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>No RSVP required.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: The Woltemade Center<br \/>\nContact: Lydia Freudenberg-Little at <a href=\"mailto:lffreudenberg@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lffreudenberg@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Wesleyan will host a free lunch symposium today, April 27,\u00a0to explore how recent federal policy changes and executive orders could impact the\u00a0environment. OWU faculty member Will Georgic, Ph.D., assistant professor of economics, will moderate the panel discussion. This year\u2019s panelists are Laurel Anderson, Ph.D., the Morris Family Professor of Natural Sciences, and Franchesca Nestor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owu-connection-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131399,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390\/revisions\/131399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}