NCSCE Associate Director, Davida Smyth (Texas A&M-San Antonio), and her collaborator Monica Trujillo (Queensborough Community College-CUNY) are garnering national recognition for their groundbreaking wastewater research on SARS CoV-2 in New…
NCSCE and SENCER is proud to host a collection of essays commissioned by James Collins (Arizona State University) and Gordon Uno (University of Oklahoma), who were funded by the National…
Creating your Video Presentation Most presenters opt to do a recorded Slide Show Presentation: Recording a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation as a video is easy (in PPT the “record” function…
Over twenty years ago the SENCER initiative was launched. The idea was simple, to use complex public problems as a curricular frame to teach rigorous science content, thus improving both…
SENCER Senior Fellow Bob Franco, of Kapiolani Community College, has been named Campus Compact Senior Fellow for Sustainability and Resilience. He will be working to Support and expand the Community…
At the “virtual” SENCER Summer Institute in August three new appointments to NCSCE leadership were announced. Davida S. Smyth, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Natural Sciences…
The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the complex global civic challenge that SENCER approaches were developed to address. The foundational idea was that by using a real-world problem as…
According to National Geographic, species are alarmingly going extinct 1,000 times faster than previously recorded due to humans. With such a detrimental situation upon us, we must encourage individuals to…
As campuses move to on-line instruction in response to COVID-19, generous colleagues have been passing along resources for teaching on-line and we will post them as the come in:
The Sustainability Challenges Facing Research and Teaching Laboratories When Going Green Marcus Banks,Molly Metz &Davida S. Smyth https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2020.1708166 Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development Volume 62, 2020 – Issue…
