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Building A Strategic Framework With A Sustainability Lens At Wcu, Stefanie Schwalm Apr 2024

Building A Strategic Framework With A Sustainability Lens At Wcu, Stefanie Schwalm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Stefanie Schwalm, WCU Associate Provost for Accreditation, SRPS Spring '24 4/17: "Building a Strategic Framework with a Sustainability Lens at WCU."


A Campus Beyond Plastic: Post-Landfill Action Network (Plan), Savannah Robledo, Ramiro Murguia Apr 2024

A Campus Beyond Plastic: Post-Landfill Action Network (Plan), Savannah Robledo, Ramiro Murguia

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Savannah Robledo and Ramiro Murguia of the Post-Landfill Action Network present "A Campus Beyond Plastic" at the 2024 Zero Waste Summit.


Mourning The Planet And Signs Of Hope: The Role Of Grief And Resilience In How Students Understand Climate Change, Zachary C. Wooten, Jocelyn Brown Apr 2024

Mourning The Planet And Signs Of Hope: The Role Of Grief And Resilience In How Students Understand Climate Change, Zachary C. Wooten, Jocelyn Brown

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Zachary Wooten (Honors College) and Jocelyn Brown '23 present "Mourning the Planet and Signs of Hope: The Role of Grief and Resilience in How Students Understand Climate Change"


Coo-Coo For Cocorahs: Participation In A Nationwide Meteorology Citizen Science Program, Adam M. Rainear Mar 2024

Coo-Coo For Cocorahs: Participation In A Nationwide Meteorology Citizen Science Program, Adam M. Rainear

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Adam Rainear (Communications and Media) presents Coo-Coo for CoCoRaHS: Participation in a Nationwide Meteorology Citizen Science Program


Sustainability And Careers In The 21st Century, Phyllis J. Schoen, Amanda Baker Mar 2024

Sustainability And Careers In The 21st Century, Phyllis J. Schoen, Amanda Baker

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Phyllis Schoen and Amanda Baker of the West Chester University Career Center present on "Sustainability and Careers in the 21st Century."


Listening To The Gordon Natural Area: Field Recording As Means Of Connecting With The More Than Human World, Devin Arne Mar 2024

Listening To The Gordon Natural Area: Field Recording As Means Of Connecting With The More Than Human World, Devin Arne

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Devin Arne (Music Theory, History, and Composition) shares "Listening to the Gordon Natural Area: Field Recording as Means of Connecting with the More Than Human World"


Lichen Ecosystem Services And A Study From The Nj Pine Barrens, Gregory Turner Feb 2024

Lichen Ecosystem Services And A Study From The Nj Pine Barrens, Gregory Turner

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Greg Turner of the WCU Biology Department presents Lichen Ecosystem Services and a Study from the New Jersey Pine Barrens.


The Role Of Humor In Sustainability: Well-Being, (In)Equity, And Community, Mia Ocean Feb 2024

The Role Of Humor In Sustainability: Well-Being, (In)Equity, And Community, Mia Ocean

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Mia Ocean, Graduate Social Work, shares an interactive presentation on The Role of Humor in Sustainability: Focusing on Well-Being, (In)equity, and Community


Sustainability Considerations Of Generative A.I., Thomas Pantazes Feb 2024

Sustainability Considerations Of Generative A.I., Thomas Pantazes

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Thomas Pantazes of the WCU Teaching and Learning Center shares Sustainability Considerations of Generative A.I.


Rewilding Our Story: Using Storytelling To Combat Climate Change, Calli Lambard Jan 2024

Rewilding Our Story: Using Storytelling To Combat Climate Change, Calli Lambard

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Calli Lambard, WCU Office of Sustainability, Rewilding Our Story: Using Storytelling to Combat Climate Change


Beyond Sustainability Curriculum Integration - Educating Otherwise, Paul Morgan Nov 2023

Beyond Sustainability Curriculum Integration - Educating Otherwise, Paul Morgan

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Paul Morgan, Educational Foundations and Policy Studies - Beyond Sustainability Curriculum Integration - Educating Otherwise


Epidemiologic Understanding Of The Un Sustainable Development Goals, Zeinab Baba Oct 2023

Epidemiologic Understanding Of The Un Sustainable Development Goals, Zeinab Baba

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

A Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar entitled "Epidemiologic Understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals," presented by Professor Zeinab Baba, Department of Public Health Sciences, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


Indigenous Values And Their Place In Contemporary Discussions Of Sustainability, Joey Miller Oct 2023

Indigenous Values And Their Place In Contemporary Discussions Of Sustainability, Joey Miller

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "Indigenous Values and their Place in Contemporary Discussions of Sustainability" by Professor Joey Miller, Department of Philosophy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought And Societal Collapse, T. Elliott Arnold Oct 2023

The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought And Societal Collapse, T. Elliott Arnold

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought and Societal Collapse" by Professor (Thomas) Elliott Arnold, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


Should My Next Car Be An Ev?, Lorenzo Cena Sep 2023

Should My Next Car Be An Ev?, Lorenzo Cena

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar on "Should My Next Car Be An EV?" by Professor Lorenzo Cena, Environmental Health Program, Department of Public Health Sciences, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.


The State Of Sustainability At Wcu: Key Insights From Wcu’S First Sustainability Census, Aliza Richman Apr 2023

The State Of Sustainability At Wcu: Key Insights From Wcu’S First Sustainability Census, Aliza Richman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Aliza Richman, Sociology - The State of Sustainability at WCU: Key Insights from WCU’s First Sustainability Census


Offsets And The Path To Carbon Neutrality In Higher Education And Study Abroad, Paul Sylvester, Michael A. Di Giovine, Bradley Flamm Apr 2023

Offsets And The Path To Carbon Neutrality In Higher Education And Study Abroad, Paul Sylvester, Michael A. Di Giovine, Bradley Flamm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professors Paul Sylvester, Early & Middle Grades Education, and Michael Di Giovine, Anthropology, in conversation with Bradley Flamm - Offsets and the Path to Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education and Study Abroad


Silicon In Renewable Power Generation And Storage: Decarbonizing The Grid And Automobile Transport, Kurt W. Kolasinski Apr 2023

Silicon In Renewable Power Generation And Storage: Decarbonizing The Grid And Automobile Transport, Kurt W. Kolasinski

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Kurt Kolasinski, Chemistry - Silicon in renewable power generation and storage: Decarbonizing the grid and automobile transport.


What's In A Name? The Politics Of Commemoration From The Un-Naming Of The Alexander Graham Bell Dorm At Rit To The Samuel Schmucker Controversy At Wcu, Brent Ruswick Apr 2023

What's In A Name? The Politics Of Commemoration From The Un-Naming Of The Alexander Graham Bell Dorm At Rit To The Samuel Schmucker Controversy At Wcu, Brent Ruswick

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Brent Ruswick, History - What's in a Name? The Politics of Commemoration from the un-naming of the Alexander Graham Bell dorm at RIT to the Samuel Schmucker controversy at WCU


Urban Mass Transit: New York State And The Mta Sustainability Initiatives On Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction, Omosehin Moyebi Mar 2023

Urban Mass Transit: New York State And The Mta Sustainability Initiatives On Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction, Omosehin Moyebi

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Dr. Omosehin Moyebi, Health - Urban Mass Transit: New York State and the MTA Sustainability Initiatives on Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction


Something Fishy About Crime: How To Teach Conservation And Sustainable Use Of The Oceans, Seas, And Resources For Sustainable Development In An Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course, Cassandra L. Reyes Mar 2023

Something Fishy About Crime: How To Teach Conservation And Sustainable Use Of The Oceans, Seas, And Resources For Sustainable Development In An Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course, Cassandra L. Reyes

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Cassandra L. Reyes, Criminal Justice - Something Fishy about Crime: How to Teach Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Oceans, Seas, and Resources for Sustainable Development in an Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course


Transition Town Media - What Do Transition Towns Bring To The Table?, Sari Steuber, Skip Shuda Mar 2023

Transition Town Media - What Do Transition Towns Bring To The Table?, Sari Steuber, Skip Shuda

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Sari Steuber and Skip Shuda, Transition Town Media - What do Transition Towns Bring to the Table?


Student Advocacy As A Catalyst For Sustainable And Social Change, Joshua Filer Feb 2023

Student Advocacy As A Catalyst For Sustainable And Social Change, Joshua Filer

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Joshua Filer, Finance ‘23 - Student Advocacy as a Catalyst for Sustainable and Social Change


Saving The Critically-Endangered Western Gray Whale, Jen Maresh Feb 2023

Saving The Critically-Endangered Western Gray Whale, Jen Maresh

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jen Maresh, Biology - Saving the Western Gray Whale: How Science, Industry, and the Public are Coming Together to Protect a Critically Endangered Species from Oil & Gas Activities


Milk Diets, Grape Cures, And Bananas Galore: An Examination Of Past And Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour, Jacqueline Alnes Feb 2023

Milk Diets, Grape Cures, And Bananas Galore: An Examination Of Past And Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour, Jacqueline Alnes

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jacqueline Alnes, English - Milk Diets, Grape Cures, and Bananas Galore: An Examination of Past and Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour


Sustainable And Organic Beekeeping In Chester County, John Pisciotta Feb 2023

Sustainable And Organic Beekeeping In Chester County, John Pisciotta

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor John Pisciotta, Biology - Sustainable and Organic Beekeeping in Chester County


Realizing The Vision Of Wcu’S Landscape Master Plan: A Panel Discussion, Josh Braid, Rodney Mader, Bradley Flamm Nov 2022

Realizing The Vision Of Wcu’S Landscape Master Plan: A Panel Discussion, Josh Braid, Rodney Mader, Bradley Flamm

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Bradley Flamm, WCU Office of Sustainability (Moderator), with Josh Braid, WCU Grounds Department, and Rodney Mader, WCU Campus Tree Committee Chair - Panel discussion: Realizing the Vision of WCU’s Landscape Master Plan


Sustaining Communities Through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman Nov 2022

Sustaining Communities Through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Casey Bohrman, Graduate Social Work - Sustaining Communities through Transformative Justice


The Role Of It In Campus Sustainability Efforts: Model Sustainability In It Operations, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, And Teaching And Learning, J. T. Singh, Kevin Partridge, Teresa Hudson, Pete Calvert Nov 2022

The Role Of It In Campus Sustainability Efforts: Model Sustainability In It Operations, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, And Teaching And Learning, J. T. Singh, Kevin Partridge, Teresa Hudson, Pete Calvert

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

JT Singh (and colleagues), WCU Information Services and Technology - The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts


Our Need For Seed: How News Media Framed The Pandemic Gardening Boom, Roger Gatchet, Amanda Davis Gatchet Nov 2022

Our Need For Seed: How News Media Framed The Pandemic Gardening Boom, Roger Gatchet, Amanda Davis Gatchet

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Roger Gatchet, Communication and Media, and Professor Amanda Davis Gatchet, Department of Communication Studies, Montgomery County Community College - Our Need for Seed: How News Media Framed the Pandemic Gardening Boom