Taught by Dr. Marc Stern, a new online course offered this Fall is designed to provide students with a variety of tools for navigating the social complexities of environmental and other sustainability-related initiatives.
Having successfully completed this course, students will be able to:
Describe the social dimensions of sustainability challenges.
Communicate about social science theories effectively.
Demonstrate the ability to apply social science theories to real-world problem-solving within the context of environmental sustainability.
Articulate both the value and limitations of ...
Taught by Dr. Marc Stern, a new online course offered this Fall is designed to provide students with a variety of tools for navigating the social complexities of environmental and other sustainability-related initiatives.
Having successfully completed this course, students will be able to:
Describe the social dimensions of sustainability challenges.
Communicate about social science theories effectively.
Demonstrate the ability to apply social science theories to real-world problem-solving within the context of environmental sustainability.
Articulate both the value and limitations of ...
Every morning at a supermarket called Auchan in central Paris, Magdalena Dos Santos has a rendezvous with Ahmed “Doudou” Djerbrani, a driver from the French food bank.
Dos Santos, who runs the deli section of the store, is in charge of supervising the store’s food donations. She sets aside prepared dishes that are nearing their expiration date.
Opening a giant fridge, Dos Santos shows what else the store is giving away – yogurt, pizza, fresh ...
—By Storme Spencer, from 2018 Spring GRAD 5134 Interdisciplinary Research Class Immediately upon hearing that we would be taking Gallup’s CliftonStrengths® test that would identify what our strengths and weaknesses are, I was reminded of … Continue reading →
—By Storme Spencer, student from GRAD 5134 Interdisciplinary Research class of Virginia Tech Immediately upon hearing that we would be taking Gallup’s CliftonStrengths® test that would identify what our strengths and weaknesses are, I was reminded … Continue reading →
From VT News
The environment is teeming with microbes. Soil, water, indoor surfaces, our own bodies — any habitat that hasn’t been rigorously sterilized is populated by thousands of species of interdependent bacteria, viruses, and other microscopic organisms.
These webs of microbiota are the biological foundation for larger-scale ecosystems, and small shifts in the microbial community can provoke seismic shifts in the environment.
Nanoparticles are one of a long list of substances that can perturb them, but teasing out their ...
From VT News
Frank O. Aylward, an assistant professor with the Department of Biological Sciences in the Virginia Tech College of Science, has been selected as a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences.
Recipients of 2018 Sloan Research Fellows will receive an award of $65,000, which Aylward will use to fund personnel in his lab and to purchase a server for computational genomic research. “I’m very excited since this will enable some evolutionary genomic work looking at abundant ...
Image obtained from http://www.16personalities.com —By Ishi Keenum, from 2018 Spring GRAD 5134 Interdisciplinary Research Class This week, our class took the 16 personalities quiz in order to assess our Myers Brigg’s 4 letter identity. As … Continue reading →
—By Ishi Keenum, from GRAD 5134 Interdisciplinary Research class This week, our class took the 16 personalities quiz in order to assess our Myers Brigg’s 4 letter identity. As someone who loves personality quizzes and … Continue reading →
