Nearing my last semester of undergrad at Georgia Tech this past May, I realized that I hadn’t taken advantage of any opportunities to study abroad. A civil engineering friend of mine had recently attended the Green Program in Peru and recommended I check it out. Turns out the Green Program in Iceland became one of the best decisions I made throughout my academic career at Tech.
The Green Program in Iceland is a 10-day sustainability program focused on renewable energy. The program included a myriad of activities, from touring renewable energy generation plants to extreme adventuring. As a prospective graduate student in…
This semester, SLS was pleased to sponsor several students to attend national conferences, including the Engineers Without Borders-USA national conference, the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) conference. We are pleased to share the perspectives of the students who attended: Tanvi Suresh (CGIU); Eli Derrington (EWB-USA); Sanmi Toyobo (EWB-USA); Michelle Henriques (AAHSE); and Natalie Chu (AASHE).
Connecting to the Sustainable Development Goals at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference
By: Tanvi Suresh
This October, I had the chance to attend the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) conference along with 1,000 other college students around the world. Everyone at the conference made Commitments to Action towards advancement, addressing key issues in Education, Environment and Climate Change, Peace…
With Phase I registration in progress, SLS would like to highlight three exciting affiliated courses! HTS 2803 HP: Semester in the City: Engaging Westside Communities, Instructor: Todd Michney; BIOL 2336: Ecology Lab, Instructor: Emily Weigel; CHEM 4833/8833/ChBE 4803/8803: Fundamentals and Challenges for a Sustainable Chemical Enterprise, Instructor: Elsa Reichmanis. Check out these courses, and the rest of our Spring 2018 course offerings on our Courses page
HTS 2803 HP: Semester in the City: Engaging Westside Communities Instructor: Todd Michney
*Offered Spring 2018
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Juan Moreno-Cruz is an Associate Professor Professor of Economics in Ivan Allen College and a Fellows of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. He serves as faculty co-director for SLS' Fall 2017 Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities Fellows Program, with Matthew Realff (ChBE ).
This fall, SLS launched the SLS Fellows Program: Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities (ESSC), with 28 fellows representing all 6 colleges and various other units on campus, and including faculty, research scientists, graduate students, a post doc, and staff.
The purpose of this program is to emphasize the role of communities in the larger quest towards a sustainable energy…
Juan Moreno-Cruz is an Associate Professor Professor of Economics in Ivan Allen College and a Fellows of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. He serves as faculty co-director for SLS' Fall 2017 Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities Fellows Program, with Matthew Realff (ChBE ).
This fall, SLS launched the SLS Fellows Program: Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities (ESSC), with 28 fellows representing all 6 colleges and various other units on campus, and including faculty, research scientists, graduate students, a post doc, and staff.
The purpose of this program is to emphasize the role of communities in the larger quest towards a sustainable energy…
Interested in an SLS Course? We’re excited to announce THREE SLS Foundation courses for the Spring 2018 semester! And don’t forget to check out all our affiliated courses as you’re planning your schedule. Phase I registration opens on October 30th!
Sustainable Communities and Systems Instructors: Beril Toktay, Matthew Realff, Kim Cobb
What does sustainability look like when we take community seriously? This course is an introduction to some fundamental approaches and frameworks to help answer that question and engage our students in creating sustainable systems and communities in their professional and civic lives. Case studies, exercises, and a project will explore applications of these frameworks.
Who should take this…
Ruthie Yow is SLS’s new Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist. She has a PhD in American Studies and African American Studies; her research focuses on educational equity, and her book, Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press this November.
I was raised in metro Atlanta, and like many Tech students who also were, I didn’t really consider myself an Atlantan until I arrived here at Tech. In 2014, I was hired as a Brittain Fellow to teach courses in the Writing and Communication Program, and I wanted to deepen my understanding of Atlanta so I could better connect my students to their adoptive city. I came to Tech equipped—or so I thought: I knew Atlanta’s civil rights, Civil War, and student activist histories; I also knew, from my own research, how critical a role Atlanta will continue to play in the educational…
Prabhav Chawla is a computer engineering major from Haryana, India. In this post he reflects on the impact of his ENGL 1102 class: “If Not Us, Then Who?: Student Activism, 1960-Present,” a first-year composition course affiliated with the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain and taught by Brittain Fellow Ruth Yow. Serve-Learn-Sustain facilitated a partnership between the course and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights through which students created digital tours for visitors to the Center on issues ranging from clean water to immigration to gender equity. Additionally, Prabhav and several of his peers in the class attended events in the SLS Environmental Justice Series.
I came into Georgia Tech with a clear goal – to hone my scientific and technical knowledge. I was excited to embark on a four-year long journey which would culminate in a degree in computer engineering. I scoffed when I learned that I was required to take 24 credit-hours worth of social and…
We are pleased to provide you with the seventh in a series of blog posts from our 2017 Global Student Ambassadors. This week, we highlight the Japan Summer Program in Sustainable Development program, a collaborative study abroad program with Tokyo Tech that offers ten weeks of focused study in one of the world’s most fascinating and important countries. Students explored the broad issues of sustainable development with a particular focus on the challenges of sustainable urbanization in large cities as well as rural towns. Georgia Tech students had the opportunity to work together with Tokyo Tech students in multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams tasked with devising solutions to real-world sustainability and community development problems. One of our Global Student Ambassadors for this program, Yoko (Sarah) Nakama, writes about her experiences.
Sustainable Development in Japan
As an…
We are pleased to provide you with the fifth in a series of blog posts from our 2017 Global Student Ambassadors. This week, we highlight the Sustainable Transportation Abroad (Netherlands) program which provides students with the opportunity to spend two weeks studying sustainable bicycle infrastructure in the Netherlands. Our Global Student Ambassador in this program, Anna Nord, writes about her experiences.
Before studying abroad in the Netherlands, I was confident in my knowledge of the aspects that define safe bicycle infrastructure. I believed in my ability to solve problems associated with the dangers of inadequate bicycle facilities in the United States. Yet, within hours of being in the Netherlands, I quickly realized that my solutions were naïve and missing vital details. The Sustainable Transportation class taught by Dr. Kari Watkins, truly enriched my academic experience at Georgia Tech. My trip to an…