 4th Annual Civic Engagement Awards
Engagement in Sustainability
April 23, 2009
Portland, Oregon
Judith Ramaley Faculty Award
Robin Morris Collin
College of Law
WillametteUniversity
Brook Muller
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
University of Oregon
 Robin Morris Collin School of Law
Willamette University
A descendant of a long line of African-American civil rights activists, Morris Collin is a writer, speaker and advocate for environmental justice.
In 1993, while at the University of Oregon, Robin Morris Collin became the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. She joined the Willamette law faculty in 2003 and later helped develop the Certificate Program in Sustainability Law, which she directs. Morris Collin was also a founding member of Oregon Lawyers for a Sustainable Future and was awarded the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon (2002). Morris Collin was a national member of the Common Sense Initiative of the US EPA from 1986-1988, representing the twin goals of environmental justice and sustainability. For her work with this group, she won the Hammer Award from Vice-President Al Gore.
Her most recent work, a three-volume encyclopedia of sustainability co-authored with Robert William Collin, senior research scholar at Willamette’s Center for Sustainable Communities, will be released later this year.
Brook Muller School of Architecture
and Allied Arts
University of Oregon
Brook Muller is an assistant professor in the Architecture Department at the University of Oregon, teaching design studios and courses in sustainable architecture, theory and media.
Muller is also the Director of the Certificate Program in Ecological Design within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. His research focuses on the design process in its formative stages and the theoretical foundations of ecologically responsive architectural practice.
Muller was awarded the Wesley Ward Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design in 2002. He was recently awarded the 2008 Oregon Community Foundation Van Evera Bailey Faculty Award for Research and Studio Education for his proposal, “Architecture as Support for Functioning Urban Ecologies”.
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