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2024 Projects Day Booklet, Seattle University

Projects Day Booklets

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Identifying The Association Between Participation In Training On Supervision And Perceived Effectiveness As A Supervisor For Field Instructors, Joellen Henson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Council on Social WorkEducation (CSWE) identifies fieldEducation as the signature pedagogy of social workEducation in the United States (CSWE, 2022). ThisEducational approach is comprised of social work agency internships for students to experience social work practice opportunities complemented by the professional support and mentoring provided by agency field instructors. Field instructors have the responsibility of providing the required social work supervision component for student interns who are completing their fieldEducation experiences at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. This study specifically highlighted the strengths as well as areas for improvement of the online, asynchronous training module and the …

Gis-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis For Marine Energy Site Selection: A Case Study Comparison Between Puerto Rico And Hawaii, Sarah Hall

Environmental Studies Honors Papers

Geospatial information systems (GIS) enable easy visualization of geospatial data representing different criteria important for optimal siting of marine energy projects. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a geospatial analysis method that facilitates the evaluation of multiple, usually overlapping, site criteria. While GIS-based MCDA has been used extensively for land-based renewable energy projects, limited research exists on its application to marine-based renewable energy projects. Similarly, most literature overlooks the integration of social or environmental justice data. This project applies GIS-based MCDA to conduct site selection analysis for two marine renewable energy (MRE) projects in Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The results for …

Profile: Celebrating Sustainability, Communications And Marketing

Profile (1996-)

In this issue: Zavada is First Morton Gneiss Professor; Cougar Days of Giving Event is Resounding Success; Planned Giving is Way for Alum to Give Significant Support; New at UMN Morris: Degree in Three; Cofer Named Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean; Pandemic Challenges Led to Improved Chemistry Lab; Kapemni Program Created with NSF Grant; UMN Morris Archives Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant; Morris Model Wins Competition to Energize Rural Communities; UMN Morris Included in Food Justice Initiative Funding; DuHamel Receives McKnight Musician Fellowship Grant; Peters Receives JEDI Award; Brugger Named Fellow of the Geological Society of …

2023-2024 Library & Learning Annual Review, Library & Learning, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Library & Learning Annual Reviews

Digital version of the 2023-2024 Annual Review for Library & Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Analyzing The Correlation Between Water Violations And Hospitalization Rates, Rebekah Dalton, Jed Speers

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Unsafe water due to violations in water safety can result in illness and ultimately hospitalization. However, there is little data that analyzes regional rates of water violations and their correlation to hospitalization rates. This research aims to analyze the correlation between water violations and hospitalization rates between the Midwest, East and West Coasts, and between Ohio counties that use the Lake Erie water basin and those that use the Ohio River water basin. Methods include the use of data from County Health Rankings and the following statistical tests: paired and unpaired T-tests, ANOVA, and Pearson Correlation test. Results showed that …

Using Green Chemistry To Build Community: How Transformational Learning Impacts The Building Of A Community Of Practice, Michelle Ernst Modera

Community Engagement Student Work

Green Chemistry education is a widening field, seeking to include educators at all levels collaboratively in the process of transforming outdated chemistry practices. Qualitative research methods were used to interview three key collaborator groups at Beyond Benign, a green chemistry education organization, who are considered part of the Green Chemistry Community of Practice (GCCoP). This was done to develop a strategic plan to 1) explore how the Beyond Benign team and K-12 teachers see themselves as part of one GCCoP; 2) to ascertain how to bring the K-12 program into alignment with the organization’s evolving mission; and 3) to discover …

Reimagined Intercultural Land Use: Assessment In Dorchester, Massachusetts’ Cultural Neighborhood, Dinebari Adumene

Community Engagement Student Work

The significance of land use policy entails the key areas of land use planning, infrastructure development, and urban sprawl. Situated in a densely populated area with a large waterfront, the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts is a community with immense potential to revolutionize the urban landscape. The artistic movements from cultural influences within the city are growing which shows clear benefits to increased placemaking through community events. Artistic works are a tool for engaged advocacy for social justice in both informal and formal settings. This project proposes a series of three sustainable art digital projects that will illuminate land justice …

Implementing Justice In Research: Beyond Equitable Selection, Leslie E. Wolf

The Appendix, Journal of Health Care Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Re-Evaluating The Land Use Impacts Of Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development In Virginia, Damian Pitt, Aaron R. Berryhill, Jennifer M. Ciminelli

L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Publications

Utility-scale solar energy is the fastest-growing source of energy in the United States, and it provides many benefits related to climate change mitigation, pollution reduction, and tax revenue for the impacted localities. However, the rapid expansion of this technology raises some concerns, including the possible loss of farmland, forest land, and sensitive ecosystems, as well as potential environmental justice impacts from concentrating these facilities in low-income and/or minority communities.

In Virginia, 94 utility-scale solar facilities – defined as systems with a generating capacity of 5 megawatts (MW) AC or greater – have been built since December 2016. Hundreds more projects, …

Cataloguing Minerals, Part One: Historical Cataloguing Practices And The Logics Of Colonialism, Selby Hearth, Carrie Robbins, Marianne Weldon, Aha Anderson, Rosa Bieber-Stanley, April Chernila, Helen Christ, Hannah Cosgrove, Morgan Hanson-Rosenberg, Carly Hill, Maya Hofstetter, Emily Lazo, Izzie Ludlow, Samantha Lyster, Rachel Myers, Jasper Nash, Georgia Reed, Julia Saint- Amour

Geology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Mineral wealth has motivated and funded extractive empires, often at the expense of local communities, workers, natural environments, and public health. Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogues, which divorce specimens from context. This article examines the roots of those omissions and situates mineral cataloguing in the larger body of literature on knowledge organization systems and their relation to power. We examine how colonial ideologies of land and people become entrenched in mineral cataloguing practices, and how this reinforces the ways that contemporary geologists think about their work. We argue that revising mineral cataloguing practices is a …

Assessing The Benefits Of Distributed Solar In Virginia: 2024 Update And Status Report, Damian Pitt, Dagny Oakley

Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment Publications and Presentations

Distributed solar energy is growing rapidly in Virginia, and prices are dropping. If these trends continue, the state has the potential to meet a significant percentage of its electricity needs via distributed solar, supporting thousands of jobs and achieving substantial economic benefits in the process. However, reaching these targets will require the continuation of a positive policy and regulatory environment. This includes the removal of several remaining policy barriers, particularly related to shared / community solar, and avoiding some of the negative policy changes that have slowed distributed solar in other states.

This report is an update to a VCU …

Policing Impacts On Racial And Regional Oppression In Appalachia, Grace Simpson

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Appalachians continue to face the lasting effects of generations of state violence. Residents are often met with economic, environmental, physical, and mental hardships that are specific to these regions. Namely, the intersection of race with these region-specific hardships creates unique issues for Black Appalachians. Black Appalachians have a distinct history connecting the cultural nuances of the Appalachian region with the overall history of racial inequality in the USA. The following highlights Black Appalachian experiences by exploring the relationship between state violence, policing, and race in the region. Utilizing qualitative interviews with Black individuals in Appalachians, results gain a more detailed …

Is The Juridical Field Of Environmental Law In India Gendered? A Study Of Environmental Justice In Goa Through An Ecofeminist Lens, Shweta Dilip Singh Sinha

Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this study is to examine whether the “juridical field,” as defined by Bourdieu, of environmental law in India (Goa), is gendered. As per Bourdieu, the legal field is neither as neutral nor as autonomous as the legal profession asserts it is. It relies heavily on the juridical practices of universalization, appropriation, and naming or categorization in order to constantly reimagine and negotiate its own boundaries. This study examines these juridical practices including acts of symbolic violence committed in the process of ‘naming’ or ‘defining’ within legal terms extra-legal concepts, mainly environmental toponyms, such as, ‘“forest,” “CRZ” (Coastal …

2024 Annual Report, Tennessee. Division Of Forestry And Tennessee. Department Of Agriculture

Forestry Annual Reports

This annual report presents an overview of Tennessee Forestry Commission programs and management.

Annual Report: 2023-2024, Coase-Sandor Institute For Law And Economics

Academic Center Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Additional Information - Venessa Hammerick And Arthur Mcquiston Interview, Tennessee State University

Hear from Venessa Hammerick & Arthur McQuiston - Nashvillians Living Outside

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Office Of Nationally Competitive Awards, Inquiry Editors

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

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Household Water Conservation For The Upper Colorado River Basin, Lauren Ott

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Fresh, clean, potable water is the most important natural resource to sustain human life. Concern over the continued, equitable and affordable access to such water is therefore top of mind. Calls for climate change mitigation practices, improved natural resource management, and enhanced attention to water conservation have therefore become increasingly prevalent. These water conservation practices require population-wide political, attitudinal and behavioral shifts and it will be especially impactful for wealthy nations and wealthy people to be mindful of instituting these changes in their own spaces.

In this project, I conduct a literature review to investigate current challenges surrounding water from …

Associations Between The Lived Environment And Health Markers In Ohio Counties, Jake Trzybinski, Darbi Griffith, Brian Johns

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Environmental exposures have known to be associated with poor health outcomes in adults, however there is scarce literature on which exposures that are county-specific influence health outcomes in the state of Ohio. There are known longitudinal effects of the environment on a person’s physical and mental health and demonstrated correlations could have the potential to improve health outcomes of those living in communities disproportionately impacted by environmental stressors. Through a retrospective review using County Health Rankings and the defined parameters of rurality, we looked at various measures of environmental exposures and living conditions and their effect on diabetes rates, chlamydia …

Additional Information - Frederick Cawthon Interview, Urban Green Lab, Tennessee State University

Hear from Frederick Cawthon - Nashvillian in Sustainable Agribusiness

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Freedom To Flourish: Housing As A Social Good, Laura Stivers

Social Justice | Faculty Scholarship

One cause of gentrification and displacement of multi-generational communities of color has been the increase of private equity firms buying affordable homes, upgrading them, raising rents, and evicting tenants. This paper focuses on housing financialization and the increasing shift from the use value of housing as a place to live to the exchange value of housing as a commodity and investment for corporate profit. After identifying the problem of gentrification and housing speculation in Oakland, California, the paper draws on ecowomanist/mujerista/feminist sources to offer a theological foundation in support of housing as a social good for the freedom of households …

Fsu Law Focus - 11/01/2024, Fsu College Of Law Office Of Communications

FSU Law Focus Newsletter

From the Dean: Fall 2024 Distinguished Environmental Lecture (Gerald Torres, "Environmental Justice: Environmental Joy"); Virtual Blockchain & Digital Assets Conference; Annual Claude Pepper Elder Law Moot Court Competition; Alumni in the News: Leron Rogers ('99); Alumni in the News: Janet Varnell ('95); 3L Student Profile: Nate Lazor

Additional Information - Elois Freeman Interview, Tennessee State University

Hear from Elois Freeman - Native Nashvillian Who Came Home

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Arch 483-004: Community Revitalization Through Land Remediation, Colette Santasieri

NJ School of Architecture Syllabi

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Arch 654-001: Community Revitalization Through Land Remediation, Colette Santasieri

NJ School of Architecture Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Hss 404-H10: The Brick City: How Newark Became Newark, Miriam Ascarelli

Humanities Syllabi

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Sts 360-002: Ethics And The Environment, Adam See

Humanities Syllabi

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Environmental Metrics In Action: Exploring U.S. Superfund Sites Affiliated With The Fashion Industry, Nidia K. Trejo

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Little is known of Superfund sites, long-term clean up sites, affiliated with the apparel and footwear supply chain in the United States. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) manages the clean up of contaminated sites that pose a significant risk to human health and the environment under the Superfund program. A site can become contaminated if hazardous waste from industrial operations are mismanaged or dumped into the environment, in an uncontrolled manner. In this study, a proposed Superfund site (Mohawk Tannery in Nashua, New Hampshire), an active Superfund site (Ciba-Geigy Corp. in Toms River, New Jersery), and a …

Cultivating Change: Enhancing Urban Agriculture Through Landscape Architecture Design, Patricia Cerda

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The objective of this research is to examine the advantages of applying landscape architecture design principles to urban agriculture landscapes. The study investigates the current and past instances of implementing agriculture in urban areas to comprehend how they benefit the community and local environment and create a connection between people and the food they consume. The study aims to explore how landscape architecture can be efficiently applied to urban farming practices to establish a meaningful and sustainable connection between individuals and their food. The study will be guided by three research questions: (1) What are the environmental benefits associated with …