Associate Professor Len Ackland

Associate Professor Len Ackland taught In-Depth Reporting, Media Ethics and Professional Practice, and Reporting on the Environment. He co-taught the seminar for Ted Scripps Fellows.

The founding director of the School's Center for Environmental Journalism in 1992, Ackland recently became co-director of the CEJ along with his colleague, Associate Professor Tom Yulsman. He will continue to have primary responsibility for the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, which received funding of $555,470 for academic years 2003-2005. Ackland also is creating the Nuclear West Project, which will include an online resource center for journalists. Associate Professor David Slayden is collaborating with him on this project.

Ackland continues to write articles and speak about nuclear weapons issues, which again are in the headlines with the U.S. war against Iraq, the developments in North Korea, the continuing conflict between nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan, and mounting concern about ways to halt nuclear proliferation. Ackland has given a number of talks this year, including one in April titled "The Press, 'National Security' and Nuclear Weapons: Lessons from Rocky Flats" at the University of Utah Law School's Wallace Stegner Center.