From Black Swamp to Green Soup: Campus/Community Partnership Aims for Blue Lake
Posted: May 17 2013
One of the biggest impediments to western expansion of the United States in the early 19th century was the nearly impenetrable Great Black Swamp that spanned Northwest Ohio and Northeast Indiana.

Northwest Node Engages New Faculty in Civic Engagement Efforts
Posted: May 2 2013
This article is the fourth installment in our series featuring updates on current activities from each of the seven nodes in the Science and Civic Engagement Western Network.

Northland College Students and Faculty Assess Pre-mining Environmental Baselines
Posted: Apr 3 2013
Quietly, in order to ensure that the decision-making and environmental impact determination processes are based on sound science, students and faculty from Northland College in Ashland have been gathering baseline data on local water and air quality both in and around the reservation, in partnership with citizen science efforts of the non-profit Bad River Watershed Association.

First SCI - Great Lakes Meeting Highlights Best Practices in STEM-based Ecosystem Stewardship
Posted: Mar 20 2013
From March 14 - 16, over 60 faculty, students, and community partner representatives from four states gathered at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Botanical Garden for the first regional meeting of the newly-established SENCER Center for Innovation in the Great Lakes region.

Undergraduate Spotlight: Leading from the Middle
Posted: Feb 21 2013
As a GLISTEN USL, Rhiannon served as a bridge between ECC faculty and staff from community-based organizations that benefited from the service-learning components of those environmental science courses.

Seven New Models Added to SENCER Digital Library
Posted: Apr 29 2009
The most recent additions to the SENCER Digital Library are the seven courses and programs selected to be part of the SENCER Model Series during the summer of 2008. The diverse group of resources includes international collaborations, single courses, and course clusters, and focuses on issues such as sleep, HIV/AIDS, food, and pregnancy.

African University Teams at SSI 2002
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2002, Volume 1, Issue 2 Through a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) under the University ...

Announcing the SSI 2003 Representatives
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2003, Volume 2, Issue 1 We are pleased to announce that representatives from the following colleges, universities, and institutions will be attending the SENCER Summer Institute - 2003: ...

SENCER's Impact on Teaching Industrial Chemistry At The University of Montana
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, August 2003, Volume 2, Issue 2 When I attended the SENCER Summer Institute last summer (SSI-2002), I was immediately struck by how well the concept of engaging students in the evaluation of ...

SENCER and General Education at Meredith
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, August 2003, Volume 2, Issue 2 On the Meredith College campus and among other small liberal arts colleges and universities there is a lack of educational tools and methodologies that provide ...

Science and Community Outreach
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, August 2003, Volume 2, Issue 2 "They (students) are invited to pursue academic excellence, to discover, and develop fully their personal and professional goals, and to contribute actively ...

SENCER International Partners - African Educators Propose Increasing SENCER Collaborations
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, September 2003, Volume 2, Issue 3 By its very design SENCER has taken a larger view of issues that link science and civic engagement. It is no surprise, then, that, while focused on efforts to ...

Report From Campus Partners: Francis Marion University
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, October 2003, Volume 2, Issue 4 To address the need for more environmentally-literate citizens, two professors in Environmental Science and Professional Writing (respectively) developed an ...

Environmental Chemistry and Ethnicity: Uranium and American Indians
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, November 2004, Volume 4, Issue 3 Catherine Middlecamp and Omie Baldwin, University of Wisconsin - Madison In 2002, Environmental Chemistry & Ethnicity (3 credits) was created as a new ...

The Mathematics of Communications: Keeping Secrets
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, January 2005, Volume 4, Issue 5 Stephen Greenfield, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey For thousands of years, people have tried to communicate secretly and securely. Cryptography is ...

Riverscape
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, April 2005, Volume 4, Issue 8 By: Anne L. Pierce, George Burbanck, Barbara Abraham, and Judith Davis, Hampton University Riverscape is an innovative science curriculum designed for potential ...

SSI 2002 Teams Selected
Posted: Apr 1 2002
Congratulations to the following schools who have been invited to send full teams to the SENCER Institute this summer.