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.

SSI 2013 to Feature Symposium on Science and Public Policy
Posted: May 2 2013
Given the central role that public issues - and the development of public policies designed to address them - play in the civic engagement aspirations of the SENCER enterprise, a focused exploration of science and public policy seems essential.

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.

Connecting Where You Live With What You Teach â The Alaska SCEWest Node
Posted: Mar 6 2013
Larry reports that, "the SENCER network and SCEWestNet node for Alaska are making an impact with rural and minority students in Alaska, where place-based science courses and activities about current issues are valued." He believes that, "where you live should have something to do with what you teach."

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.

Featured GLISTEN Cluster: Western Lake Erie
Posted: Jun 23 2010
This week's featured GLISTEN Collaborative Cluster focus is the Western Lake Erie Collaborative Cluster, with lead institution Lourdes College (Sylvania, OH) and partner institutions; Owens Community College (Toledo, OH), Defiance College (Defiance, OH), Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association (Oregon, OH), and the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG, based in Toledo, OH).

GLISTEN Cluster Focus: Northeast Ohio (Lake Erie)
Posted: Jun 9 2010
Located on Lake Erie in the Cleveland/Akron area, the Cluster brings together students and faculty from five institutions of higher education, and their community partners, with a common goal of promoting environmental stewardship within the Great Lakes watershed.

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.

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 ...

Field Report: Application of SENCER Approaches in the Teaching of Science in Wagner College's First Year Program
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, December 2003, Volume 2, Issue 6 Wagner College's First-Year Program is comprised of learning communities (LCs). A typical LC includes two lecture courses from different disciplines that ...

The University of Cincinnati CoNSEPTS Project
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, January/February 2004, Volume 2, Issue 6 A team of A&S and Education faculty from the University of Cincinnati (UC) attended the SENCER Summer Institute in Santa Clara August 2003. This ...

More Than Just a Chemistry Course
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, March 2004, Volume 2, Issue 7 By: Garon C. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, garons@selway.umt.edu As a civically engaged faculty member in a ...

Chemistry and Policy: A Course Intersection
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, September 2004, Volume 4, Issue 1 This Vassar Course Intersection brings two classes together, a Chemistry course in Instrumental Analysis, the other an Introduction to Urban Studies, around ...

Coal in the Heart of Appalachian Life: A Learning Community
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, December 2004, Volume 4, Issue 4 Phillip J. Mason, Judy Byers, Debra Hemler, Andreas Baur, Galen Hansen, and Noel Tenney, Fairmont State University Coal in the Heart of Appalachian Life is ...

The Evolution of the Model: Science, Society, and Global Threats
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, March 2005, Volume 4, Issue 7 The course, "Science, Society, and Global Catastrophes" was originally introduced as a SENCER Model in 2001. We recently asked model developer, Theo ...

What Difference Does Teaching a SENCER Course Make?
Posted: Mar 1 2009
SENCER E-Newsletter, July 2005, Volume 4, Issue 11 Recently, we asked a group of SENCER participants and colleagues at their institutions to tell us about the courses and programs that they have developed. We were ...

Truman College Program Engages Students in Air Quality Analysis
Posted: Jun 1 2008
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2008, Volume 7, Issue 8 Incidences of asthma are on the rise in various cities across the country. Studies have shown that mortality rates from asthma have also risen steadily over the ...