Associate Professor Len Ackland


Associate Professor Len Ackland taught In-Depth Reporting, Reporting 3, Newsgathering 2 and Reporting on the Environment. He also co-taught the Ted Scripps Fellows Seminar.

Ackland was the co-director of the School's Center for Environmental Journalism and has been working with colleagues on a new project called “Nuclear Issues Online: A Resource for Journalists.”

Ackland's most illuminating recent experience was a tour of France's second-largest nuclear power plant complex - four 1,300-megawatt units located in Cattenom. After many years researching nuclear weapons, he was fascinated to learn more about this nuclear twin and plans to do more examination of this technology.

Nuclear weapons still interest him, of course, and he wrote a couple of articles for Colorado and New Mexico newspapers about Rocky Flats II, the Department of Energy's planned site to once again manufacture the plutonium bombs once built at the Rocky Flats factory near Denver. The new site, if the department goes ahead with its plans, will not be in Colorado. Ackland's other writing included a chapter on media for the new Encyclopedia of World Environmental History published by Routledge Press.