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Verbena Reynoso
While based abroad for a dozen years, in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Paris and Toronto, she was a correspondent for Inter Press Service news agency and reported frequently for Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, The Independent, The Times (London), The Associated Press and others.
We believe that our students will benefit greatly from relationships with outstanding journalists as they seek to create their own paths. We view this mentorship program as a valuable tool to help our students connect with accomplished professionals for advice on their journalism education and their careers.
Several departments emphasizing hands-on learning and experiential education will now be within Polytechnic's programming framework. Doing so will provide our students with the richest educational experiences to prepare them for college and careers with real-world opportunities and skill acquisition through a challenging curriculum. Courses are available as individual electives or taken as part of a series to fulfill the requirements for an Indiana Graduation Pathway.
Carmel High School students engage in rigorous and comprehensive education throughout their experience with Carmel Clay Schools. They are challenged by high expectations through a curriculum supported with research-based instruction. During their first three years at Carmel High School, students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in rigorous courses, including honors, dual-credit, Project Lead the Way (PLTW), Advance College Project (ACP), Advanced Placement (AP), and International Baccalaureate (IB).
The Space Studies Program (SSP) offers an intensive nine-week course hosted each year in the timeframe June-August in different locations around the world. It provides courses in all space disciplines, as well as hands-on education through workshops and professional visits. This program offers a unique curriculum designed specifically for professionals starting or changing direction in their space careers.
A series of lectures in each field of study that is designed primarily for non-experts is presented. Thus, medical specialists can understand the lectures on propulsion and engineers and lawyers can understand the lectures on the effects of weightlessness on the human body.
SSP Workshops are activities designed to enhance and complement the knowledge acquired during core lectures through more active learning in smaller groups. Participants choose activities based on their interests. A number of activities are conducted in parallel and participants must sign up in advance. Topics may be offered more than once so as many people as possible are able to benefit.
Department activities encourage exchange of knowledge, ideas and opinions through debate and discussion, as well as hands-on activities. Departments have more time to go into greater depth with activities such as:
Department activities provide an important opportunity for participants to interact with faculty members and lecturers and build their professional network. They also provide a means for participants to become sensitive to the cultural differences that govern personal interactions in a group setting and to adapt and develop presentation and negotiation skills in light of this cultural diversity.
The department chair will work with each participant to define a short exercise or project as part of the departmental activities. These projects may be done individually or in small teams and include an oral presentation of professional research or a professional paper and presentation on current issues for a conference.
In Phase III of the SSP, participants work in international, interdisciplinary and intercultural teams to produce a comprehensive analysis and proposals for an international space project or on a topic of relevance to the professional space sector. Participants choose one from multiple team project topics and work on that topic for the duration of the SSP. This element of the program has three main objectives:
Many ISU reports have served as resources for the world space community (see the ISU Library Website for Team Project reports). The structure of team projects depends to some extent on their subject matter, but certain aspects are common to all team projects:
The International Space University (ISU) has organized the Space Studies Program (SSP) annually since 1987. The SSP is held in different countries around the world with an institution or consortium serving as its Host.
Faculty in the Colgate Russian and Eurasian Studies (REST) program are recognized as experts in an unusually wide range of academic fields, allowing students to explore the region in a uniquely interdisciplinary way. We offer a major and a minor in Russian and Eurasian Studies.
With 26 core faculty and more than 100 participating faculty from 30 campus departments and programs, Environmental Studies sets the standard in interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Our teaching and research spans across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, design fields, and education.
Our degree programs are flexible and tailored to meet specific educational and career goals, providing students with the opportunities to work alongside world-class scholars and researchers, develop concrete skills and analytical abilities, and gain experiential learning experience relevant to careers in government agencies, non-government organizations, private industry, and academic fields.
A degree in Environmental Studies or Environmental Science opens the door to hundreds of possible career paths, include public planning, environmental consulting, education, ecological restoration and conservation, resource management, green business, and recycling and waste prevention.
Our alumni have excelled in careers such as campaign representative, bike transportation planner, community organizer, utility forester, science teacher, communications manager, sustainability analyst, field energy specialist, or park ranger.
"Environmental Studies at the UO was far more than an academic experience; it was a jolt into a new way of understanding my place in the world. The diverse community of talented, value-aligned people challenged and inspired me to stretch my horizons. I will always be grateful for the Environmental Studies program for supporting me in entering the next chapter of my career and life."
In the Environmental Studies program, you can learn how to make positive changes for the environment and society, prepare yourself for meaningful work in a growing job sector, take advantage of experiential learning experiences with issues of global importance, customize your course plan to align with your academic and career goals, and gain a deeper and more holistic understanding of the world around you.
We recognize that many social justice issues intersect with environmental issues, and every community must collaborate on environmental solutions. These include working to make land access equitable to all, correcting the legacy of environmental racism, and allying with Indigenous communities in our work against climate change, which disproportionately impacts their lives and livelihoods. Faculty in the Environmental Studies department have organized conferences, symposia and initiatives that emphasize the intersectional nature of social and environmental issues through disciplines like environmental justice, environmental humanities and environmental policy. One example of this work, an intercollegiate and regional partnership called the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute, has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Led by instructors Peg Boulay and Katie Lynch, the Environmental Leadership Program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary service-learning program that matches student teams with non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and businesses to address local environmental needs.
Research in Environmental Studies is highly interdisciplinary and aimed at solving major environmental problems affecting people and ecosystems. Our faculty include leading scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, environmental humanities, and design who work collaboratively with community partners and researchers all over the world.
Undergraduate students have a range of scholarships available to them through both the College of Arts and Sciences and university-wide programs. Being a Graduate Employee in the Environmental Studies department offers our graduate students income as they gain experience through teaching and assisting with courses and discussion sections. We also offer reimbursement to graduate students for research expenditures on an annual basis, and an annual graduate student teaching award.
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