| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 50.16 |
| Liaison | Lissette Hernandez |
| Submission Date | Sept. 20, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Florida International University
ER-12: Sustainability Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Does the institution offer a program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive experience(s) offered by the institution:
Green Family NeighborhoodHELP™ is a centerpiece of the curriculum at FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Medical students partner with colleagues in nursing, social work, public health, law and other disciplines to work with a household in an under served neighborhood. Medical students work with the household for three years, helping families address societal and environmental challenges that impact their health.
http://medicine.fiu.edu/education/md/curriculum/service-learning/neighborhoodhelp/
The FIU Organic Garden is a hands-on teaching facility through the Agroecology program under the Department of Earth & Environment in FIU's College of Arts & Sciences. Students gain experiential learning right on campus about food production and its relationship to the ecosystem through gardening and plotted experiments. The garden is nestled adjacent to the FIU Nature Preserve, providing excellent opportunities to understand the various interaction between growing food and ecosystem needs. It contains 9 distinct areas for research and education: Shade house, class plots, community plots, herb garden, fruit grove, meditation gardening, composting, biofuels, and aquaponics. For various projects, the Agroecology Program has partnered with universities in India and Honduras where students can travel and get hands-on education in other areas of the world. http://agroecology.fiu.edu/about/
Aquarius is an underwater laboratory and home to scientists for missions up to 10 days long, but to call Aquarius a home is like calling the space shuttle Discovery a mode of transportation. Aquarius is made to withstand the pressure of ocean depths to 120 feet deep. Aquarius is the latest, and only remaining, underwater laboratory dedicated to research, in a long line of underwater living environments that date from the 1960s. Hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students have assisted in research during Aquarius Reef Base missions and surface diving operations. http://aquarius.fiu.edu/about-aquarius/
The website URL where information about the immersive experience is available:
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