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Rich Wildman will join the Math and Physical Sciences Division of Quest in summer 2012. He is an environmental chemist who studies the reaction and transport of chemical contaminants in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. At Quest, he will teach a range of classes that are broadly united by his dual interests of environmental chemistry and freshwater resoureces. His 2012-2013 classes are: September: Water Resources and Water Quality satisfies Earth-Oceans-Space (EOS) Foundation requirement no prerequisites October: Rhetoric satisfies Foundation requirement no prerequisites January: Fundamentals of Energy Sustainability satisfies Energy and Matter (EnMa) Foundation requirement no prerequisites February: Fundamentals of Energy Sustainability March: Environmental Engineering prerequisites: 1 each of Foundation-level EOS, EnMA, Ecology, Math For the 2013-2014 academic year, he will likely teach Water Supply and Water Quality, Fundamentals of Energy Sustainability, and Rhetoric again. Additionally, he is proposing to teach non-Foundation courses called "Limnology, The Study of Inland Waters" and "Water Infrastructure". Before arriving at Quest, Rich will be finishing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard School of Public Health. Those interested in his current research, which pertains to mercury, arsenic, and lead in a reservoir in Oklahoma, are encouraged to look through his Harvard website. Rich grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, and, at one point during his youth, drought restrictions had been in place for over half his life. While in high school and college, he pursued dual interests in chemistry and outdoor exploration, eventually winding up with a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale and a leadership position with the Yale outdoors club. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Along the way, he also dabbled in journalism, high school outreach, soccer, baseball, and theater, and he rowed on the varsity crew team at Yale. Rich is teaching at Quest because he believes strongly that the knowledge in the minds of research specialists isn't reaching bright undergraduates quickly enough. He wants to help students understand and value the natural world while also making sense of humanity's place in it. Students interested in any of these topics are more than welcome to contact Rich before he arrives at Quest; email him at . |
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