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Joan Berkowitz
Name:
Joan Berkowitz
Position:
Adjunct Faculty
Graduate School of Management and Technology
Bio:

Dr. Joan Berkowitz (BA, Chemistry, Swarthmore College; PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois) is a 2003-4 recipient of UMUC's Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. She has taught in UMUC's Graduate School of Management and Technology ENVM program for 10 years. Her courses include Planning for Environmental Managers, ISO 14001, Land and Water Resource Management, Watershed Planning and Management, and Environmental Risk Assessment. Joan is Managing Director of Farkas Berkowitz & Company, a management consulting firm that assists companies in the environmental industry with strategic planning, profitability improvement, and commercialization of technology. Prior to co-founding Farkas Berkowitz & Company, with Alan Farkas, Joan was Vice President of Arthur D. Little, Inc., in charge of that firm's environmental practice worldwide.

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