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In partnership with AASHE, the Greening of the Campus conference took place in Indiana in late September.

"This interdisciplinary conference allows people representing diverse areas in university communities to share information on environmental issues. These areas range from the practical day-to-day management of the physical plant to "green" curriculum development and "green" utilization of campus resources. The areas are bound by common concerns for achieving environmental soundness through safe and sane management of resources. The campus community can become a "green" model for society as a whole by gathering and sharing this information."*

Our very own Stephanie Piech was there representing our campus! She presented on sustainability in dining services from an interns perspective. Topics she covered were going trayless, energy audits and compost initiatives, and how student groups and interns have taken part in making these things happen.  She also mentioned some of our resource management groups like REMP for their work on campus and SWIFT for their work with the food shelters. Great Work Steph!

*taken from the GOCVIII website.

Sarah Araldi '11 is featured on the Humanities and Sciences School website for her work as an intern with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). As the agency's market and marketing support intern, Sarah was tasked with writing much of the agency's new website and was able to contribute to energy campaigns being implemented all over the state. In addition, she worked has worked at IC on a student team to design cost-effective rain barrels for water conservation, and is pursuing her interests in environmental planning and urban design - all while minoring in art history!

Article Highlight:

"Sometimes, 13 can be a lucky number.

Ithaca College was the 13th -- and last -- school that Sarah Araldi visited during the college application process. Sarah, an environmental science major who hails from Westerlo, a town of 3,400 near Albany, wasn't sure whether she wanted to even stay in New York State at all. 'But,' she says, 'once I got here I fell in love -- with the campus, the city, the people -- everything just felt right.'"

Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, Associate Professor of Physics, received an NSF Award for Noninvasive Study of Late Bronze Age Cities in Cyrprus. Using equipment obtained by Ithaca College from a previous NSF grant, this collaborative project will conduct three, four-week sessions of geophysical surveying at two important Late Bronze Age urban centers in south-central Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Maroni. Combined with digital mapping and 3D modeling of previously excavated architecture, this work will allow the researchers to assemble complete urban plans of these sites.

This will significantly expand the dataset of Late Bronze Age architecture and, by applying analytical methods such as access and visibility analyses, provide unprecedented new insights into how the new urban environments organized social interactions that supported or undermined broader social structures.

In addition, the project will develop a geographic information system-based database of architectural and archaeological data that will be made available to any interested parties on the project website. The project will also further the development of collaborative training opportunities in archaeological geophysics for students from Cornell University, Ithaca College, and the University of Cyprus.

The results of this research will be broadly applicable as its methods and objectives are interdisciplinary in design and scope, combining social archaeology with physics, environmental psychology, architecture, planning, and urban geography. The work will be widely disseminated in a variety of media, including peer-reviewed journals, major conferences, public lectures and a project website which will serve as an important research tool. In addition, the project will forge international collaboration with research institutions on Cyprus, including the Cyprus Institute and the University of Cyprus.

Given the current importance of understanding the dynamic effects of cities on ever-growing urban populations, the research brings some much-needed time depth and historical perspective to this issue. Ultimately, this project has the potential to shed new light on a transformative period in the Cypriot past while at the same time enhancing the infrastructure for scientific research and providing several students with exciting opportunities in experiential learning.

Congrats Michael!

Susan Allen-Gil, Susan Swensen, and Marian Brown hosted a panel for the Greening of the Campus Conference in Indianapolis, IN on Sept 21-23, 2009. The panel, titled SUSTAINABILITY AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE: DEGREE PROGRAMS, included presenters from 7 universities and colleges that currently offer degree programs to share their programs and experiences.

Congrats!

Susan Allen-Gil served as the Chair for the Panel on Environmental Science for the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum,and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program on July 13-14, 2009.

Nice job, Susan!