User:BhamBoi/Grace Wang (academic)

Grace Ann Wang is a full professor at Western Washington University (Western). She served as the chair of the Environmental Studies/Urban and Environmental Planning & Policy Department of the College of the Environment (Huxley);  as well as being director of both the Sustainability Engagement Institute,  and Curriculum for the Bioregion. Wang grep up in the Seattle area, Washington, but now works in Bellingham, following degrees from Minnesota and work as a professor in Pennsylvania.

She was described in PBS NewsHour as a "public lands expert" following her publication on the Occupation of Malheur.

Education

 * BS: Political Economy of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley
 * MS: Forestry, University of Minnesota
 * PhD: Forestry, University of Minnesota

Roles
Wang has taken on many professional roles at Western, including standing as the Academic Program Director for Sustainability, as co-chair of the Sustainability Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Curriculum Committee for the Morse Leadership Institute. She also acts on the editorial board for the journal Sustainability and Climate Change,  on the board of directors of Northwest Natural Resource Group, on the Bellingham School District Sustainability Task Force, and as an organizer for AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.

Wang was formerly a member of the Board of Governors of the Sehome Hill Arboretum, which is jointly managed by the City of Bellingham and Western.

Career
Wang's academic focus area is largely in public land policy of the United States, as well as in sustainability, though she teaches many environmental policy courses. Wang made an appearance in 2020 on the local TV channel BTV10, in a segment called Climate Squares, a play on Hollywood Squares. She was also a moderator of the event culminating in the TV segment. The event was hosted by the City of Bellingham. Wang was a speaker at the 2021 Climate Action Pursuit by Second Nature.

Wang was a panelist at the 2023 Washington Oregon Cascadia Higher Education Sustainability Conference conference.

Wang's role in Curriculum for the Bioregion has involved her leading community courses on Salish Sea and Puget Sound ecosystems.

The Sustainability Action Plan Team, of which Wang is a member, was a winner of the Team Recognition Award from the WWU President's Office.

Ethan Remmel
Wang was the partner of fellow professor Ethan Remmel until his death from metastatic colon cancer in 2011, aged 41. Remmel was an associate professor of developmental psychology at WWU until his passing. Remmel was a contributor to American Scientist and Psychology Today, via which he published the blog Living While Dying about his struggles with cancer. He was also a scholarly contributor to multiple academic journals. A scholarship at WWU was named in his honor.