In an effort to strengthen its partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), North Carolina A&T State University will host an environmental symposium on Sept. 9.
The event, which will be held at the University Farm Pavilion, is the first since A&T and the EPA entered a new Memorandum of Understanding — a five-year agreement designed to "increase cooperation between the university and the federal government agency in areas of mutual interest," according to a press release.
“Our world is facing so many environmental crises today — sea-level rise, ocean acidification, waste management, heat waves, wildfires, disease spread and damage to biodiversity and more," said A&T professor Godfrey A. Uzochukwu, Ph.D. "These issues affect food, water, air, land and energy and therefore can inflict serious economic losses,” he said. “Science makes sense when you share information, which is why it’s critical for our students, faculty and university to contribute knowledge, passion and effective solutions for environmental sustainability and to work hand in hand with the agency that makes our nation’s environmental policy.”
Uzochukwu is the chair of the event's organizing committee. He is a senior professor of environmental sciences in the university's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. He is also the founder of the university's Waste Management Institute and the chair of the EPA's Clean Air Status and Network Trends Network review panel.
One of Uzochuwku's former undergraduate assistants, Michael S. Regan, is now an EPA administrator.
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