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Seminar 3 Introduction

Macaulay Honors Seminar, Fall 2022

Welcome to Seminar 3: Science Forward. This course site is an open space for students to present their research on a semester long project. This site works closely with Professor Micha Tomkiewiczs’ blog which can be found here. The focus of this work is looking at different scales both locally (institutional) and globally to seek for solutions to environmental issues. The goal is to provide ways to mitigate issues and find sustainable alternatives for Brooklyn College. Students learned about climate change, how governments have created policies to deal mitigate it, and how to calculate a carbon footprint. Students used this information to create final projects based on Campus as a Lab, to provide lab components to existing courses in order to educate about environmental issues. The Seminar 3 class also teaches students about world issues like population decline, poverty, and how changes in the environment only emphasize these problems more. Professor Micha Tomkiewiczs is very passionate about how governments and institutions can create policies to help the world go down the right path as it faces this impending disaster.

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Campus as a Lab: Brooklyn College – School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences

By Abigail Toledo Gallardo, Anastasia Kutuzov, Jean Chen, Nasheed Choudhury, & Xylo Lazrinth

Campus as a lab (CAL) is a program that aims to advance sustainability among other objectives at universities and allows for increased research mobilization, student learning, and movements towards societal changes. This research project aims to incorporate CAL into the School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences at Brooklyn College by identifying a course that already incorporates some of its main ideas and facilitating the transition [EESC 1060]. This project will focus on providing examples to improve sustainability, especially in water usage, and will aim to incorporate these ideas into the course curriculum and into the department as a whole.

by Abigail Toledo Gallardo, Anastasia Kutuzov, Jean Chen, Nasheed Choudhury, & Xylo Lazrinth
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Campus as a Lab: Brooklyn College – School of Education

 

By Ryan Chen, David Pare, Fredi Ruiz, Justin Beristain
Campus as a Lab: Brooklyn College – School of Education

We have attempted to apply the Campus as a Lab principle to the School of Education at Brooklyn College.

Link to full presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DPL5sZXKbUGVwseFIe4itwEHus7xqEgj6eUD3uWQM3o/edit?usp=sharing

Link to data:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lB_GMZF9SstugTG8nVUi7FwEWQC_XA3b34SlYeZXdjo/edit?usp=sharing

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Campus as a lab: Brooklyn College – School of Business

 

by: Khadija Afonja, Huda Ayaz, Alana Abraham
Campus as a Living Lab is a Macaulay seminar 3 project in which we utilize the knowledge we obtained, regarding climate change, and apply it to create an effective solution for climate related issues on our campus, Brooklyn College. By using the course BUSN 3182, Green Real Estate, we propose a final project for the course that asks students, in groups, to identify which of two assigned buildings on campus are doing better when it comes to following the renovation standards they learned about throughout their course (BUSN 3182).
by Khadija Afonja, Huda Ayaz, Alana Abraham