Carnegie Mellon University
ER-T2-6: Sustainability Events

1. The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research., the Office of the Vice Provost for Education and undergraduate student group Sustainable Earth co-coordinate an annual weekend immersion course focused environmental and sustainability topics. The course is open to all students, undergraduate and graduate regardless of major, as well as the community at large.

* March30-April 1, 2012. "Environment Today: Green Design and Garbage”",
http://www.cmu.edu/weekend-today/previous/environment-2012/index.html

2. The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research annually hosts a speaker series intended for students, faculty and staff. The lectures are also free and open to the community at large. The series' focus is to bring experts in the field of sustainability to campus to discuss innovative solutions to global environmental problems. The focus of the spring 2012 Distinguished lecture Series was Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy:
Human Dimensions of Technology. The following lectures were hosted as a part of that series:

* April 17, 2012. “Climate Modeling, Societal Impacts, and Environmental Justice”, by Warren Washington, senior scientist and Chief Scientist of the DOE/UCAR Cooperative Agreement at NCAR in the Climate Change Research Section in the center’s Climate and Global Dynamics Division

* April 30, 2012. “The Global Environment and Human History since 1900” by John McNeill, faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown University.

* May 3, 2012. “Prosaic Disasters”, by Charles Perrow, Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and Visiting Professor at Stanford.

3. April 21, 2012. Each spring semester Carnegie Mellon hosts Carnival activities on campus for students, community members and alumnae. During the spring 2012 Carnival the Steinbrenner Institute collaborated with undergraduate student group, Sustainable Earth, Zero Fossil Pittsburgh and Bike Pittsburgh to offer demonstrations of portable solar technology and to offer information to the campus community on alternative transportation.

4. April 26, 2012. The Steinbrenner Institute coordinated a campus wide Environmental Expo to showcase student, faculty and staff sustainability projects on campus. Exhibitors shared environmental art projects, service projects, and environmental and sustainability research. Participants represented student and staff organizations, undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from all of the seven colleges at Carnegie Mellon.

5. May 8, 2012. Steinbrenner Institute coordinated the annual Environmental Research Poster Session. Carnegie Mellon students representing the environmental research community from Engineering and Public Policy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, the School of Architecture and many more, presented posters and discussed their environmental research.

6. May 31-June 2, 2012. Carnegie Mellon hosted the Earth Matters on Stage Symposium. The Earth Matters on Stage Symposium brought artists and scholars from the US, Canada and abroad to participate in workshops and panels that advance scholarship in the area of arts and ecology, with a focus on increasing the sustainability focus in the theater arts community.

7. There were also a variety of sustainability topics covered during the annual Pittsburgh Conference Lecture series including:
*April 18, 2012. Kick-off movie for the Conference Lecture Series, “An Inconvenient Truth"
*April 19, 2012, 4:45 p.m. "Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Some Science and Solution”, by Robert Jackson, Duke University

Additional information on sustainability themed events can be found at the University Lecture Series website: http://www.cmu.edu/uls/ and at the Weekend Today course website: http://www.cmu.edu/weekend-today/