"MCLA’s location provided me with endless opportunities to gain professional experience in the arts. I had a lot of fun working as a tour guide at MASS MoCA and in the education department at the Berkshire Museum, which allowed me to figure out what kinds of jobs I would like and to meet a lot of interesting arts professionals along the way. MCLA’s small size helped me develop close working relationships with my favorite professors who always took time to advise me on academic and professional concerns. I really felt like they were with me all the way."
Monica Henry ’07 Education Coordinator, Clark Art Institute
News & Press Releases
Feb. 27, 2008
NORTH ADAMS, MA – The Berkshire Environmental Resource Center (BERC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will continue its series of “Green Living” seminars on Thursday, March 6, at 5:30 p.m. with “Problems with Hydropower,” in Murdock Hall conference room 218.
The series, “Achieving Energy Sustainability for the 21st Century: Choices and Challenges,” is free and open to the public.
Russ Cohen, an award-winning environmentalist and a river advocate for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, will speak on “Problems with Hydropower.”
Cohen has received awards such as the Environmental Achievement Award from Save the Bay in Rhode Island in 1993, an Environmental Service Award from the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions in 1997, the Public Servant of the Year in 1997, and the Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2003. He previously worked for the Nature Conservancy, the Land Trust Alliance, the Hillside Trust in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The Green Living series aims to inform students and the community about strategies for meeting our growing demand for energy and to encourage debate around several energy options, including those involving water, wind, hydrogen and nuclear power.
The series will continue on Thursdays through April 24 in Murdock Hall conference room 218 at MCLA. For more information, go to www.mcla.edu or contact Elena Traister, (413)662-5303.
