Dr. Jennifer Hirsch serves as the Director for the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain. She is an applied cultural anthropologist specializing in community sustainability, cultural diversity, experiential education, and network building.
SLS had a fantastic response to its call for proposals to support courses, ongoing projects, or short-term activities that enhance student learning around our theme of “creating sustainable communities.” We are proud to announce that we have given out 22 awards, https://www.contact.gatech.edu/sls/subscribe, to the following faculty, instructors, and staff representing https://www.contact.gatech.edu/sls/subscribe.
Awardees will collaborate with SLS to finalize their course/activity/project plans and will submit deliverables when they conclude. We look forward to sharing some of those out with you via this blog and the website, in the summer and the fall.
SLS will issue more calls for proposals in AY2017-18, to be announced via our Email List. If you’re not yet subscribed, please sign up on our website, here: https://www.contact.gatech.edu/sls/subscribe
Congratulations to our awardees! We are honored to partner with you as we prepare students to develop sophisticated and effective approaches to engaging in the important work of collaborating with diverse groups of people to create sustainable communities where people and nature thrive, now and in the future. Thanks for your dedication and collaboration.
Best,
SPRING 2017 AWARDEES
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NAME |
TITLE |
COLLEGE |
SCHOOL |
PROPOSAL TITLE |
TYPE |
|
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Adjo |
Amekudzi-Kennedy |
Professor |
Engineering |
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Civil Infrastructure Equity for Socioeconomic Progress (CIESP) |
Research; Course module; Potential VIP |
|
Marilyn |
Brown |
Professor |
Ivan Allen |
Public Policy |
Financing Sustainable Cities |
Course |
|
Hailong |
Chen |
Assistant Professor |
Engineering |
Mechanical Engineering |
Creating an energy sustainable community with collected efforts |
Course |
|
Bistra |
Dilkina |
Assistant Professor |
Computing |
Computational Science and Engineering |
Student participation at related conferences |
Conference |
|
Alice |
Favero |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
Ivan Allen |
Public Policy |
Georgia Tech Climate Action Plan |
Course (GT as Living Lab) |
|
Rebekah |
Greene |
Brittain Fellow |
Ivan Allen |
Literature, Media, and Communication |
Technical Communication and the Problem of Water |
Course |
|
Chris |
Gu |
Assistant Professor |
Scheller |
N/A |
Infuse student projects into the course "Understanding Markets with Data Science" |
Course |
|
Joy |
Harris |
Director, Engineering for Social Innovation Center |
Engineering |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Assistive Technology for the Frazer Center |
Course (VIP) |
|
Roger |
Jiao |
Associate Professor |
Engineering |
Mechanical Engineering |
Open Design and Systems Thinking for Sustainable Communities |
Course (capstone design) |
|
Kyoko |
Masuda |
Associate Professor |
Ivan Allen |
Modern Languages |
Creating Japanese Graded Readers and summplementary Kanji Materials related to Food, Energy, and Environmental Issues |
Course |
|
Juan |
Moreno-Cruz |
Assistant Professor |
Ivan Allen |
Economics |
Economic Growth and Sustainable Development |
Course |
|
Sarah |
O'Brien |
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow |
Ivan Allen |
Literature, Media, and Communication |
Conference Participation and Presentation at Association for the Study of Literature and Environment |
Conference |
|
Dori |
Pap |
Assistant Director |
Scheller |
ILSI |
Creating and Serving Sustainable Communities through Social Enterprise |
Site Visit and Speaker Fees |
|
Radhakrishnaiah |
Parachuru |
Principal Research Scientist/Senior Academic Professional |
Engineering |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Enhancing Global Awareness of the Damaging Effects of Plastic Pollution and Developing Alternative Solutions to Address Plastic Material Pollution |
Courses |
|
Elsa |
Reichmanis |
Brook Byers Professor |
Engineering |
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
Fundamentals and Challenges for a Sustainable Chemical Enterprise |
Courses |
|
Juan |
Rodriguez |
Associate Professor of Spanish |
Ivan Allen |
Modern Languages |
Documenting Latino Leadership in Atlanta |
Course |
|
Xinyi |
Song |
Assistant Professor |
Design |
Building Construction |
The Smart Workplace: Promoting Health and Sustainability in Small to Medium Sized Commercial Buildings Through IT-enabled Hybrid Ventilation |
Research; Course |
|
Andy |
Sun |
Assistant Professor |
Engineering |
Industrial & Systems Engineering |
Developing a graduate course on modern decision making for sustainable energy systems |
Course |
|
Yuanzhi |
Tang |
Assistant Professor |
Science |
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
Engaging students in education and research on sustainable waste management and resource recycling |
Research |
|
Perry |
Yang |
Associate Professor |
Design |
City and Regional Planning |
Tokyo Smart City Project 2017 |
Course |
|
Ruth |
Yow |
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow |
Ivan Allen |
Writing and Communication Program |
Conference Participation and Presentation at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 2017 |
Conference |
|
Chen |
Zhou |
Associate Chair |
Engineering |
Industrial and Systems Engineering |
Service Learning in GT 1000 |
Course (GT 1000) |
