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Water wise landscaping at the University of Utah
- University of Utah (UT)
Images for the SCI 2024 report which recognizes the University of Utah for Water Impact. Photos show water conservation landscaping.
- Posted July 24, 2024
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Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy, University of Utah
- University of Utah (UT)
New Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy - University of Utah announced in August 2022 the creation of the interdisciplinary Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy to promote …
- Posted Aug. 31, 2023
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Relationships Between Institutional Agents and Student Activists
- Colorado State University (CO)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of West Georgia (GA)
Researchers studying college student activism have learned much about those students’ motivations, tactics, and educational outcomes. Less is known about the relationships between activists and key institutional agents. For student …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Atmospheric Sciences BS
- University of Utah (UT)
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences offers a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree and a minor for undergraduate students. Students with interest in severe weather, climate change, forecasting, broadcast meteorology, atmospheric …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Civil and Environmental Engineering BS
- University of Utah (UT)
Civil and environmental engineering is ideal for those with vision and analytic skills. Engineers are challenged to imagine new ways to support the needs of business, industry, public agencies, and …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Enviornmental Geoscience Emphasis
- University of Utah (UT)
The Department of Geology and Geophysics offers Bachelors of Science (B.S.) degree programs that are designed for students who wish to pursue professional careers in the Earth sciences or in …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Atmospheric Sciences MS
- University of Utah (UT)
The graduate program has been carefully designed to provide students with a solid foundation in a broad spectrum of the atmospheric sciences while allowing students to specialize for their thesis …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Atmospheric Sciences PhD
- University of Utah (UT)
The graduate program has been carefully designed to provide students with a solid foundation in a broad spectrum of the atmospheric sciences while allowing students to specialize for their thesis …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Metropolitan Planning, Policy and Design MS
- University of Utah (UT)
The core courses emphasize ecological resiliency, smart growth, and social justice through effective communication, collaboration, and innovation. The program blends core knowledge and skills with specializations to prepare students for …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Metropolitan Planning, Policy and Design PhD
- University of Utah (UT)
The core courses emphasize ecological resiliency, smart growth, and social justice through effective communication, collaboration, and innovation. The program blends core knowledge and skills with specializations to prepare students for …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Sustainability (GCSC)
- University of Utah (UT)
The Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Sustainability program trains students to think and act across disciplinary boundaries. This transdisciplinary literacy enhances graduate education by building on disciplinary expertise. Students are provided …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Hydrology and Water Resources (GCSC)
- University of Utah (UT)
The amount, flux, and quality of water are central to nearly all issues of sustainability. The Hydrology and Water Resources certificate at the University of Utah integrates courses from five …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Urban Design
- University of Utah (UT)
Offered jointly by the School of Architecture and the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, the Graduate Certificate in Urban Design is for graduate students and professionals interested shaping the …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education
- University of Utah (UT)
Effective environmental justice education poses unique challenges to both educators and students. For students, this pursuit is cognitively challenging at best and emotionally paralyzing at worst. It requires deconstruction of …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Archiving the campus as a living laboratory: preserving a long memory for transformative change
- University of Utah (UT)
Sustainable change on campus is often driven by student-led projects, project-oriented courses and co-curricular activities associated with the Sustainability Office. However, aside from dissertations and theses, student work is seldom …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Campus Farmers and Growers Networking Meeting
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Join other campus farmers and food system advocates in creating a robust, interdisciplinary network of campus-based growers and partners at our second annual networking meeting. Find someone in your region …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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SCI 2021: University of Utah Geothermal Contract
- University of Utah (UT)
Long-Term 20 MW Geothermal Power Purchase and Rate Tariff Leadership: The long-term 20 MW Geothermal Power Purchase and Rate Tariff Leadership project began supplying the University of Utah with 20 …
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Archiving the Campus as Living Laboratory : Preserving a long memory for transformative change
- University of Utah (UT)
This is part of the Campus as Lab webinar series. To see the full series visit our YouTube Channel.
Sustainable change on campus is often driven by student-led projects, project-oriented …
- Posted July 26, 2021
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Campus as Lab Webinar Series - 2021-5-14 - Archiving Campus Sustainability Efforts
- University of Utah (UT)
This Campus as Lab webinar focuses on the University of Utah's efforts to create a campus wide hyper-local archive for sustainability knowledge that is available to all campus and community …
- Posted July 14, 2021
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Integrating racial equity, social justice, and sustainability through general education learning outcome assessment
- University of Utah (UT)
In 2014, the University of Utah administration received a poignant letter from a group of passionate students suggesting that granting an undergraduate degree to any student without ensuring that they …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Campus Energy-Efficiency Project (CEEP)
- University of Utah (UT)
$30M project on the Health Science Campus of the University of Utah, to use energy-efficiency to avoid the need for an expensive chilled water (CHW) plant expansion.
- Posted May 26, 2021
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FY20 Energy-Efficiency Initiatives Project
- University of Utah (UT)
The first phase of a series of campus-wide projects to target carbon reductions.
The FY20 Energy-Efficiency Initiatives project targeted industry proven low-cost, fast-payback measures focusing on carbon neutrality and energy-efficiency. …
- Posted May 25, 2021
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20 MW Solar Energy Purchase
- University of Utah (UT)
The University of Utah has made a PPA of 20 MW of off-site solar energy in Huntington, UT, set to begin delivery in early 2022. The University of Utah’s 25-year …
- Posted May 25, 2021
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20MW Geothermal Power Purchase
- University of Utah (UT)
The University of Utah, through a partnership with Cyrq Energy and Rocky Mountain Power, has made a groundbreaking geothermal energy purchase. This contract will supply the University of …
- Posted May 25, 2021
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Global Change & Sustainability Center
- University of Utah (UT)
The Global Change and Sustainability Center (GCSC) facilitates interactions among scientists, creative researchers, engineers, and policymakers who are interested in understanding the complex challenges and dynamics in both natural and …
- Posted Sept. 22, 2020
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Weaving Equity and Sustainability into the Fabric of Higher Education: The University of Utah Experience
- University of Utah (UT)
Sustainability is an idea that is celebrated, loathed, or deemed entirely useless given its many meanings and approaches. While scholars broadly agree it must include merging ecology, economy, and equity, …
- Posted March 4, 2020
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Recipes for Effective Campus-Community Partnerships: Perspectives on Food Security & Justice
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Utah (UT)
This combined session will present two cases of campus-community partnerships centered on food. The Stone Soup Collective College of Charleston Chapter is comprised of dozens of collectivists and volunteers who …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Campus Farmers Networking Meeting
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Join other campus farmers and food system advocates in creating a robust, interdisciplinary network of campus-based growers and partners. Find someone in your region or across the nation to share …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Training Future Food System Leaders Using Campus Food Economies
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This session is guided by two principle questions: 1. What are all the aspects of a campus food economy and how are students engaged? 2. What structures are in place …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Curriculum for (re)Conceptualizing the University Campus as an Ecosystem
- University of Utah (UT)
Can the planning and operations of a university campus be reconceptualized with an ecological and systems approach, viewing the campus environment as analogous to an ecosystem? If so, then an …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Campus As A Living Lab: Integrating Academics and Facility Operations to Work Toward Common Goals
- University of Utah (UT)
It is an often understood idea that campuses across the nation allow themselves to become a laboratory for student ideas, especially in the field of applied sustainability. Unfortunately, larger universities …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Green Office Certification: Evaluating for Impact
- University of Utah (UT)
Green office certification programs can play an important role in changing organizational behavior. But how do we evaluate and measure the effectiveness of these programs? What type of data is …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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How Students Can Achieve Campus Sustainability: The Sustainability Climate Initiative Fund
- University of Utah (UT)
Edmond Andrews, the University of Utah Sustainability Climate Initiative Fund (SCIF) Manager, explains what SCIF is and how it works.
The Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF) is the University of …
- Posted May 22, 2019
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Student Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF)
- University of Utah (UT)
The Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF) is the University of Utah’s green grant program. Students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines and departments are invited to propose projects that enhance …
- Posted Feb. 7, 2019
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Intersections of Food Waste, Hunger, and Spectrums of Homelessness, Abuse, and Addiction
- University of Utah (UT)
- Chartwells Higher Education (NY)
Homeless adults have disproportionate rates of chronic diet-related diseases, food security, rates of obesity, as well as co-morbidities such as diabetes. The outlook is even worse for children and youth. …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Food Recovery and Partnership Models
- University of Notre Dame (IN)
- University of Utah (UT)
- Sodexo USA (MD)
- 412 Food Rescue (PA)
The University of Utah is collaborating to address seven of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals on on-campus, in local communities, as well as throughout the state. While working to …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Nation's First Community-Based Culinary Medicine Garden and Sustainability Curriculum
- University of Utah (UT)
We have the nation's first Culinary Medicine (CM) course pairing community members and Health Sciences (HS) students together to research, design, and implement community-based CM curricula, the inclusion in CM …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Academic Libraries Fostering Resilient Communities
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- University of Utah (UT)
Every institution of higher education already has an academic library that can be a partner in campus sustainability. This program offers specific ideas for how faculty, sustainability staff and administrators …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Improving Inclusivity at Campus Farmers Market and Garden
- University of Utah (UT)
The University of Utah Sustainability Office coordinates an on-campus farmers market and two edible garden sites that provide students, faculty, staff, and community members with local, healthy, and sustainable food. …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Urban Ecology BA/BS
- University of Utah (UT)
The undergraduate degree in Urban Ecology focuses on exploring the interrelationships among social, environmental and economic systems, with an aim toward enhancing the vitality and sustainability of places and communities.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change Certificate
- University of Utah (UT)
As the impacts of climate change become more severe over the coming years and decades, companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations will be required to adapt and respond to climate …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainable Tourism & Hospitality Management Emphasis (BA/BS)
- University of Utah (UT)
The study of tourism and hospitality generally, comprises an enormous breadth of fascinating topics. Among the many topics that are of concern to tourism and hospitality students are cultural and …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Sustainable Tourism Certificate
- University of Utah (UT)
The certificate is designed to enable students and participants to undergo a focused concentration within their major or professional position on international issues in ecotourism and sustainable tourism development and …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Population, Development & Sustainability, Geography Major
- University of Utah (UT)
This emphasis focuses on sustainable population growth and urban systems. Students can choose electives that allow them to specialize in either Urban or Sustainable Development areas.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Climate Change & Landscape Dynamics Emphasis, Geography (BA/BS)
- University of Utah (UT)
This emphasis focuses on the Earth system, its processes, and the impacts of these processes on the environment. Students can choose electives that allow them to specialize in one or …
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental & Sustainability Studies Major
- University of Utah (UT)
Environmental and Sustainability Studies students develop an understanding of ecological systems and the consequences of human-environment interactions, with grounding in earth systems and social science
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Environmental & Sustainability Studies Minor
- University of Utah (UT)
Environmental and Sustainability Studies students develop an understanding of ecological systems and the consequences of human-environment interactions, with grounding in earth systems and social science
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Creating a Multi-Institution Food Task Force
- University of Utah (UT)
In 2016 I co-created a 'Higher Education Food Task Force' with the seven major institutions along what is known as the Wasatch Front in Utah, which is the major population …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Salt Lake Excess: A Transportation-Based Food Recovery Model
- University of Utah (UT)
Restaurants and charities often desire to divert surplus food to communities in need, but logistical constraints prevent this. Salt Lake Excess, developed by a student group at the University of …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Nourishing U: Reclaiming Food, Alleviating Hunger, Redressing Health Inequities, and Serving up Food Justice
- University of Utah (UT)
Salt Lake Excess, created by University of Utah Honors College students, is a novel real-time food recovery model focused on eliminating the transportation and coordination barriers to food recovery. Via …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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