SENCER Model Courses
SENCER Model Course Stem Cells and Social Justice Goes Modular
By Katayoun Chamany, Associate Professor of Biology, Chair of Interdisciplinary Science; Project Shepherd and Director of University Science Labs, The New School In 2011, SENCER identified Stem Cells and Social…
SENCER and Today’s News: “Why Schools Should Make Sleep a Priority”
SENCER Model Course: The Science of Sleep (2008) "Why Schools Should Make Sleep a Priority," Education Week, March 8, 2016 Sleep researchers found that more than half (55 percent) of…
SENCER and Today’s News: “Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says”
SENCER Model Courses: Pollinators: A Case Study in Systems Thinking and Sustainability "Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says," (New York Times, 2/26/2016) The first global…
SENCER and Today’s News: “‘Patient Zero’ No More”
SENCER Model Courses: Biomedical Issues of HIV/AIDS (2001); AIDS Research-Global Understanding and Engagement (2008) "Patient Zero, No More," Science 04 Mar 2016 (Full article available to Subscribers): A new genetic…
SENCER and Today’s News: ‘Apple CEO Opposes Court Order to Help FBI Unlock iPhone’
SENCER Models: TechEP-An Emerging Model of Curricular Integration (and a collection of resources on technology and society) by Herbert Schanker, College of Staten Island, City University of New York; Computer…
SENCER and Today’s News: ‘What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China, and Climate Change’
SENCER Model Courses: The Chicken (2014), Climate Change Science and Economics (2014), Emerging Infectious Diseases (2015) "What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China, and Climate Change" The growing scale…
SENCER and Today’s News: ‘Navajo Water Supply is More Horrific than Flint, But No One Cares Because they’re Native American’
SENCER Model Course: Chemistry and Ethnicity: Uranium and American Indians (2004) “Navajo Water Supply is More Horrific than Flint, But No One Cares Because they’re Native American” In the western…
SENCER and Today’s News: ‘Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans’
SENCER Model Course: The Chicken (2014) “Chickens Weren’t Always Dinner for Humans” Evidence suggests that the domestication of chickens by humans dates from 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, but a…