Nancy TUCHMANN

Nancy Tuchman is an Aquatic Ecologist studying human impacts on Great Lakes coastal
wetlands. In 2002-03 she served as Program Officer for the National Science Foundation's
Ecosystem Studies Program, and President of the Society for Freshwater Science in 2009-10.
Tuchman's career at Loyola University Chicago began in the Biology Department where she
holds the rank of Professor. She served as Associate Provost for Research from 2004-08, and
developed the Center for Urban Environmental Research & Policy and the University's Office of
Sustainability.

From 2010-13 she served as Vice Provost and designed and helped launch the
Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES), and the University President appointed her
Founding Dean. In 2020 the IES was elevated to School status, and the new School of
Environmental Sustainability has >500 students, 7 academic majors, 5 minors, and 2 Master's
Programs. Building sustainability at Loyola earned Tuchman the Chicago Magazine Green
Award in 2013, and Chicago EcoChampion in 2018.

In 2013, Loyola was ranked the 4th greenest college in the nation, and in 2015 the University ratified a Climate Action Plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2025. In 2018 Loyola was awarded the national Climate Leadership Award.

Tuchman's work is greatly inspired by the Jesuit Universal Apostolic Preferences and Pope
Francis's Laudato Si'. She Chairs the International Association of Jesuit Universities' (IAJU)
Task Force on Environmental & Economic Justice. She co-edits the Jesuit's free online
environmental science textbook Healing Earth, which received the inaugural Expanded Reason
Award from Pope Francis and the Vatican in 2017.

In 2022 she received the IAJU St. Canisius lifetime achievement award for her work on environmental sustainability.