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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 research ...
- Posted Aug. 31, 2023
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Addressing the Social Pillar of Sustainability by Enhancing Racial Equity of Minorities in STEM Higher Education through the CREaTE Pathway
- El Paso Community College (TX)
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
The Center for Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREaTE) is a national center for research in engineering, science, and technology education at The University of Texas at El Paso ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Sustainable Research at Concordia University
- Concordia University (QC)
The Field Research Facility for Buildings of the Future was built to test which construction materials are the most efficient to get the industry to zero emission standards.
- Posted Aug. 4, 2022
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Delivering on the promise: how are sustainability research institutes enabling interdisciplinary research?
- University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Co. Cork)
Despite the potential for research institutes to advance interdisciplinary research on university campuses, There have been few studies on how interdisciplinary research centres integrate multiple disciplines in practice, how they ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice
- University of Oregon (OR)
The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Just Futures Institute is a transformational regional platform for racial and climate justice funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We hold collaborations among the University ...
- Posted May 4, 2022
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Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin: Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing in the Right Way
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Named for an Ojibwe phrase which translates to 'two ways of doing the right things in the right way,' Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin draws from Bemidji State University's (BSU) Sustainability Office, Department ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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A Sustainability Institute at a PUI: Vision, Formation, and Our First Three Years.
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
In 2017 the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh launched the Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations (SIRT). As an Institute at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI) and with a focus on fostering ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Universities responding to the call for sustainability: A typology of sustainability centres
- University of Helsinki
Universities worldwide are experiencing a growing trend to respond to the need for sustainability. Sustainability centres are one key aspect in the sustainability transitions of universities. Until currently, these centres ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Connecting Communities to Data That Matter - Linkages Through SDGs
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
In recent years, a rising number of innovative firms and entrepreneurs have intentionally coalesced around university centers to bring invention plus implementation together. These universities known as anchor institutions typically ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Education and Research: Institutes and Centers at U.S. Research Universities
- Tufts University (MA)
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability focused institutes and centers (IESICs) serve a crucial role in bridging the knowledge needs of society and the knowledge production capabilities of universities. They facilitate research ...
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Creating Spaces for Sustainability Transformation at Universities: Conditions and practices at a transdisciplinary, student-driven center for sustainability in Uppsala, Sweden
- Uppsala University
Universities have struggled to implement sustainable development in innovative ways (Lozano, 2006). Not much is known about how this implementation happens, can happen and should happen in the higher education ...
- Posted April 6, 2018
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Promoting Sustainability Teaching and Research at the Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station, Canada
- University of Alberta (AB)
Built in 2015, the Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station's (AMLRS) mission is to promote research, enhance teaching, and develop partnerships for sustainability. Located in central Alberta's Prairie-Boreal ecotone ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities: Innovations in Cross-Campus and Cross-Disciplinary Models
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- Cornell University (NY)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- Duke University (NC)
- Columbia University (NY)
- Northwestern University (IL)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Brown University (RI)
- Boston University (MA)
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
This is a study of the disctintive characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability institute, one that spans the many disciplines of the university and, to ...
- Posted June 5, 2017
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Mills Sustainability Center Grand Opening
- Mills College (CA)
The Grand Opening of the Mills Sustainability Center in 2008. The Sustainability Center serves as a hub for sustainability education and collaboration.
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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