| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.38 |
| Liaison | Laurie Husted |
| Submission Date | June 12, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Bard College
AC-8: Campus as a Living Laboratory
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
4.00 / 4.00 |
Tom
O'Dowd EUS Administrator EUS |
Is the institution utilizing the campus as a living laboratory for multidisciplinary student learning and applied research in the following areas?:
| Yes or No | |
| Air & Climate | Yes |
| Buildings | Yes |
| Dining Services/Food | Yes |
| Energy | Yes |
| Grounds | Yes |
| Purchasing | Yes |
| Transportation | Yes |
| Waste | Yes |
| Water | Yes |
| Coordination, Planning & Governance | Yes |
| Diversity & Affordability | Yes |
| Health, Wellbeing & Work | Yes |
| Investment | Yes |
| Public Engagement | Yes |
| Other | Yes |
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Air & Climate and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Dr. Eli Dueker, new hire in EUS, will use the Bard Field Station to study the connections between air quality and water quality through coastal aerosols.
Senior Projects:
HANNA GEOGHEGAN MITCHELL: “The REDD+ Balloon: An Analysis of the California–Chiapas Agreement around REDD+ as a Snapshot of the Expanding Regime Complex for Climate Change”
Bard Center for Environmental Policy Projects:
ABIGAIL M. OSGOOD: “The Role of Market Actors in Climate Change Mitigation”
JESSICA HELENA LECLAIR: “Governance Strategies in the Far North: Managing Climate-Driven Relocation Efforts in the Arctic”
MELISSA A. MEZGER: “The Framing of Uncertainty in U.S. Newspaper Reports on Climate Change”
KENDALL AUGUSTA LAMBERT: “Assessing Vineyard Irrigation Demand under Four-Climate Futures: Methods to Enhance Resiliency to Climate Change in Sonoma, California”
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Buildings and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Course and On-Going Project:
"Opportunistic Architecture: The Social Art of Building." Students, Deans, and Professors work with Architects to design a sustainable media classroom from a re-purposed shipping container (scheduled to be completed in 2014). With support from the George I. Alden trust and a Bard Mellon-Supported Special Project Mini-Grant.
Student club and tutorials:
Bard Builds is a student club that works on sustainable design projects (green buildings, sea level rise adaptation, etc.). Students are planning structures right no campus working with Buildings and Grounds, Office of Sustainability, and Trustee Leadership Scholars. Bard Builds is offering tutorials on ArcGIS, Sketchup, InDesign, etc.
Course:
PHYS 120: Global Energy. A laboratory-based physics class designed to introduce non-science majors to the different types of energy and the environmental and economic costs associated with different types of energy production. Students conducted interviews with campus staff and reviewed campus data.
Senior Projects:
NADEJDA ARTIOMENCO: “Sustainable Building Design: Cutting Energy Consumption Due to Heating”
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Dining Services/Food and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
BardEATS: this program spotlights issues asking where the college's food comes from, how the workers are treated, and where the animals live.
Bard Food Initiative: this program strives to develop local food culture through outreach programs and food service reform.
Bard College Farm: The Bard Farm is a 1.25 acre sustainable farm that organically grows fruits and vegetables to sell to Chartwells, the campus dining service. Located on Bard’s campus, worked by students, and visited by several classes.
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Senior Projects:
VICTORIA BELLE McPHEE: “Necessary Pleasure,” food photography focusing on obsession, addiction, and desire in domestic settings
SAMUEL THOMAS WENDEL: “Food Prices: The Relative Price Discrepancies between Calories and Nutrients”
LAURA AMY OVADIA: “Do You Really Want Another Slice?” Overeaters Implicit and Explicit Food Preferences
JACOB SOLOMON POWSNER: “The Modern Food Regime in Mexico; the Political Recuperation of Food Sovereignty”
MADELEINE RACHEL STRASSLER: “Framing Food: Contemporary Shifts in Animal Rights Movement Discourse”
JUSTIN GERO: "Corn and Crimson Clover Intercropping" (Biology, Bard Farm).
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Energy and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Bard Energy Efficiency Coordinator Dan Smith worked with two students to design a compost process that produces hot water
Senior Projects:
NADEJDA ARTIOMENCO: “Sustainable Building Design: Cutting Energy Consumption Due to Heating”
Bard Center for Environmental Policy Projects:
MICHELLE LYNN PHILLIPS: “Fuel Treatment Thinnings from U.S. Federal Public Lands: A Bioenergy Perspective”
LUCILLE BENTON VAN HOOK: “An Examination of First-Cost Barriers in Residential Energy Efficiency Program Participation”
NAI-HUI WANG: “Actor Mechanism: Key Elements to Successful Small-Scale Community Renewable Energy”
DANIEL SMITH: “Improving Consumer-targeted Residential Energy Audit Software: An Introduction to the Home Envelop and Energy Analysis Tool (HEEAT)”
PATRICK JOSEPH COSMO DiCIACCIO: “Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing: A Review of the PACE Design and its Intersection with the Residential Mortgage Industry”
CATHERINE NYAMBURA MUNYUA: “A Feasibility Analysis of Waste to Energy in Nairobi, Kenya”
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Grounds and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Parking Lot Green Infrastructure project: Grant-funded and planning underway.
Bard Arboretum: Monthly arboretum walks with the Director. Student interns (annual program) learn about tree inventories under guidance of horticulture supervisor.
Bard College Farm: The Bard Farm is a 1.25 acre sustainable farm that organically grows fruits and vegetables to sell to Chartwells, the campus dining service. Located on Bard’s campus, worked by students, and visited by several classes.
Community Garden: Bard students and faculty work together to create a permaculture style organic garden on campus. Class projects with Environmental and Urban Studies program.
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Purchasing and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Real Food Challenge/Bard EATS (Eating Awareness Transforms Society/Bard Food Initiative: students investigate alternative product sourcing that fulfills RFC principles.
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Transportation and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Bard student in EUS Colloqium course investigating trail possibilities in Red Hook - interviewing the multiple stakeholders involved in "trails".
related
Senior Projects:
ABBY MARIE PFEIFFER: “Federal Transportation Policy: Improving America’s Infrastructure through Value Capture Funding and Its Incentives,” a critical look at the economic incentives of transportation funding, noting the bias towards auto travel
Bard Center for Environmental Policy Projects:
CARRIE LUCIO-ZWIEBACK: “Crafting Responsible Transportation Planning: Grassroots Organizations’ Role in Biking Policies in Boston, Massachusetts”
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Waste and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins anthropology methods course on "Waste." Several student projects focus on Bard waste including the Freeuse program.
Field Methods in Environmental Archaeology: Native Peoples on Bard's Lands
EUS Practicum: “Reducing Waste and Inspiring Sustainability; Mug Refill Program at Bard College” (Katherine “Kate” Sopko)
related: Bard Center for Environmental Policy Projects:
JAIME MICHELLE DiPUPPO: “Improving Waste Management in New York City: A Case Study”
RACHEL A. SAVAIN: “Building Public-Private Partnerships: Integrating Informal Recyclers into Solid-Waste Management in Haiti”
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Water and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Bard Center for Environmental Policy Projects:
CAROL SMILLIE: “Sustainable Storm Water Management: Recommendations for the Bard College Campus”
related: NOLAN GARDNER: “Rainwater Harvesting in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico: Constraints and Promise” Nolan was an EcoRep who contributed to the 350 movement, biking an invitation from campus to the Governor and then Representative Gillibrand.
KEITH THOMAS McHUGH: “The Value of Inland, Freshwater Wetlands for Flood Protection” Keith was a graduate intern who helped establish the Sustainability Council.
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Coordination, Planning & Governance and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
“Maintaining Red Hook’s Traditional Image” (Leo Stevens-Lubin)
“Connecting the Dots: Expanding Transportation and Curb Appeal in Upper Red Hook” (Gwendolyn Knapp)
Student Government:
There is a student position on the Bard Sustainability Council through Student Government. Student Government also supports/funds several sustainability-related clubs who often have faculty/staff advisers. (The Environmental Collective, the Bike Coop, the Outdoors Club, etc.).
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Diversity & Affordability and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
The Difference and Media Project is an interdisciplinary, extra-departmental space for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Inspired by the interdisciplinary, problem-focused nature of the MIT Media Lab, which MIT describes as an “atelier” environment, the Difference and Media Project creates a multi-media laboratory space for “difference.” Difference, broadly speaking, includes race, sexuality, religion, national origin, class, or other ability, but is not restricted to those categories. Difference, of course, is not necessarily an idea that can be captured within these categories, which can only be preliminary and provisional. Media includes written texts, live performance, plays, digital artworks, conversation, art installations, or site-specific interactions with the landscape. The laboratory format allows for rigorous play, spontaneous interactions, and creative analysis.
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Health, Wellbeing & Work and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Bard Canoe Program: Wellness trips throughout Spring, Summer, and Fall on the South Tivoli Bay exploring "Nature-as-Medicine" with Environmental and Urban Studies Executive Administrator Tom O'Dowd (specialist in Environmental Psychology and Natural History). Various student groups and programs participate (Wellness, International Students, Outdoors Club, etc.).
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Investment and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Bard Socially Responsible Investment Committee:
The Bard College Socially Responsible Investment Committee is made up of 4 elected student representatives and 4 faculty and staff members. There is also a student club by the same name that provides a support network for the committee. The mission of both groups is to improve the transparency and social responsibility of the College's endowment and leverage the endowment for social change. For more information, please visit our website: http://clubs.bard.edu/sric/
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory for Public Engagement and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
Center for Civic Engagement:
Student-Led Initiatives: Camps, tutoring programs, and in-class presentations to local elementary/middle school students (on Bard campus and off). Includes Bard food/science camp, Young Naturalists Initiative, and Bard Biodiesel Collective.
Campus to Congress:
The C2C program invites students from Bard and other national institutions to become leaders in government or business before the age of 25.
10% Challenge Red Hook:
The 10% Challenge is a call to reduce energy use in Red Hook, N.Y. by 10 percent over the next year and to motivate 10 percent of our citizens to become involved. A Bard student intern, Nicole Leroy, staffed a program to explain energy savings activities to the Red Hook community.
A brief description of how the institution is using the campus as a living laboratory in Other areas and the positive outcomes associated with the work:
EUS Eels Project:
The Environmental and Urban Studies (EUS) program and Biology sponsor a 10+ year research project on the American eel, in coordination with the New York State DEC and the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (HRNERR). Students, staff, faculty, and community members monitor juvenile American eel populations with a net in the South Tivoli Bay on Bard's campus, with use of the Bard Field Station in order to assess and improve this indicator species' ecological conditions. Students have launched eel-related careers from this project, contribute annually to region-wide understanding of Hudson River ecology, and bonded with each other, staff, faculty, and community members.
The website URL where information about the institution’s campus as a living laboratory program or projects is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
More info on
Eels program: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/49580.html
Campus to Congress: http://www.bard.edu/cep/c2c/
10% Challenge: http://redhookchallenge.org/
More info on
Eels program: http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/49580.html
Campus to Congress: http://www.bard.edu/cep/c2c/
10% Challenge: http://redhookchallenge.org/
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