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.

New Backgrounder Addresses Service-Learning and Engagement at Community Colleges
Posted: Oct 30 2009
An anthropologist and leader in the community college and service-learning fields, Franco was commissioned by SENCER to write a backgrounder on how service-learning and the SENCER approach integrate goals of research, teaching and service, especially for faculty at community colleges.

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.

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 ...

Linking SENCER Courses in Kenya
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, August 2003, Volume 2, Issue 2 Linking SENCER Courses in Kenya - By: Sherryl Broverman During the 2002 SENCER Summer Institute, I developed a collaboration with Rose Odhiambo and colleagues at ...

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 ...

Seventeen Midwestern Schools Practice the "5 R's" - Reuniting, Reporting, Recruiting, Recommending, and Regionalizing - at SENCER Symposium in Chicago
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, February 2005, Volume 4, Issue 6 SENCER's Midwest Symposium, hosted by Loyola University of Chicago, gathered more than fifty faculty and other academic leaders for a day-long series of ...

SENCER Unites with African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS: A Report from South Africa
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, March 2005, Volume 4, Issue 7 By: Sherryl Broverman, Duke University The general meeting of the Association of African Universities (AAU) was held this February in beautiful Cape Town, South ...

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 ...

SENCER Workshops to be Held in Georgia and Armenia
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, May 2005, Volume 4, Issue 9 U.S. Faculty and Students to Visit SENCER Learning Centers and Participate in Research By: Karen Kashmanian Oates, SENCER Co-PI A team of nine students, three ...