2014 PERC Student Sustainability Symposium
Presentations and Media
Dickinson College
March 21st, 2014
On March 21st, 2014, over 100 students from 24 institutions gathered to share knowledge from over fifty projects! No way can we capture the totality of this PERC event at Dickinson College in 4 minutes. But the video above shows some selected highlights to give you just a flavor of the exciting ideas presented, the concepts discussed in the roundtable discussions and the work explained during the poster session.
It was a stimulating day that showed us some of the amazing sustainability work being done by students on Pennsylvania campuses. For information on the poster session topics and authors, go here. For a run-down on student-led roundtables and their moderators, as well as the notes from the end-of-the-day session, go here.
Presentation Session I-a
• A Case Study of the Green Council: Students Building a Movement Through Collaboration. Katherine Ament, Temple University
• F&M’s First Sustainability Summit, Creating a Campus Environmental Culture. Erika Jozwiak and Darielle Christman, Franklin & Marshall College
• Dickinson Idea Fund. Emily Bowie and Zachary Kaiser, Dickinson College Presentation Session I-b (Allison Hall Room 15)
• Community-Based Research, The Greater Carlisle Project. Justin McCarty and Sam Pollan, Dickinson College
• Give Life a CHANCE, Narratives from a Penn State Field Course. Jennifer Evans and Benjamin Fowler, Penn State University
• Developments in Shale Gas Research: The Importance of Volunteer Stream Monitoring. Kelly McIntyre and Andrew McGowan, Dickinson College
Presentation Session II-a
• Reinvest Dickinson, A Campaign to End Dickinson’s Endowment Investments in the Fossil Fuel Industry. William Kochtitzky and Anna McGinn, Dickinson College
• A Conflict Free Campus Initiative. Nicholas Crisci and Kendra Decker, West Chester University
• Burning with Purpose, an Assessment of the Ethanol-Fueled CleanCook Stove as a Potential Sustainable Cooking Alternative in Gaindikhatta, Uttarakhand, India. Jessie Pierce, Gettysburg College Presentation Session II-b (Allison Hall Room 15)
• Radical Reuse, PET Plastic Thatch Project. Madelyn Gioffre, Zachary Dawson and Deepak Ravi, Carnegie Mellon University
• Organic Waste Reclamation Opportunities at Chatham University’s Eden Hall Campus. Josh Andre, Chatham University
• BYO[BAG] Initiative. Liza Boulet and Jess McDonald, University of Pittsburgh
Presentation Session III-a
• The Nitrogen Footprint of Dickinson College. Elizabeth de la Reguera, Dickinson College
• A Unique Student Experience: The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring. Elise Minichiello, Dickinson College
• The ALLARM Stormwater Education Program. Maame Akua Marfo, Dickinson College
Presentation Session III-b
• The College BUZZ, Campus Beehives as an Educational Model for the Honeybee Crisis. Travis Maider, Ursinus College
• ACS Student Observers at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties. Nicole M. DeLuca, York College of Pennsylvania
• Let’s Grow Nova, The Story of the Villanova Community Garden. Michelle Velez, Villanova University
• Students Handiwork for Organized Projects (SHOP). Justin McCarty, Dickinson College