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Teaching Sustainability
Get Involved!
- Make sure to check out the Office of Sustainability website.
- Join the Wasatch Experience: "The Wasatch Experience [coordinated by the Office of Sustainability] engages educators in a two-day, team-based workshop in August, followed by regular small-group meetings during the school year. Participants design and implement an action plan to integrate the big ideas of sustainability into their courses. Upon program completion, participants are awarded $500 and receive the University Sustainability Teaching Scholar designation. The next cohort of the Wasatch Experience starts in 2018-2019. Interested in joining? Fill out this form.
- Participate in the Sustainability Faculty Learning Community: "A faculty learning community (FLC) comprises an interdisciplinary group of faculty devoted to enhancing teaching, learning, and the university experience. " - Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, the University of Utah. The Sustainability Faculty Learning Community is a monthly meeting open to faculty with interests in sustainability.
- Earn a Sustainability Course Attribute: "Sustainability course attributes are applied to courses that integrate fundamental concepts of sustainability and connect to UN Sustainable Development Goals. Courses from across campus have Sustainability attributes."
Degrees and Certificates
Research Centers on Campus
- Edible Campus GardensEdible Campus Gardens on the U of U campus serve as outdoor laboratories and demonstration gardens to showcase the beauty and diversity of edible landscaping in an urban setting.
- Food StudiesFood Studies serves to link individuals interested in food studies on campus and in the larger community to foster interdisciplinary food-related research and teaching collaborations that move the field forward and improve access to healthy foods in our own community.
- Inter-university Training for Continental-Scale EcologyInter-university Training for Continental-Scale Ecology – ITCE emphasizes the use of stable isotopes in biogeochemical and ecological studies to prepare new scientists to tackle ongoing global climatic, ecological, and biogeochemical perturbations.
- Rio Mesa CenterThe Rio Mesa Center provides opportunities for field-based interdisciplinary research and education that emphasize ecology and the environment and human-environment interaction.
- Society, Water, and ClimateThe University of Utah has created a new, interdisciplinary faculty cluster focusing on areas of Society, Water, and Climate (SWC). This transformative cluster connects research on hydrology, air quality, climate change, societal response, and policy, seeking to meld multiple scientific perspectives to lead society towards sustainable water solutions in a changing world.
- Taft-Nicholson CenterThe Taft-Nicholson Center works to increase environmental literacy, boost environmental awareness and inspire personal connection to nature, bridging the arts and humanities with the sciences.
- Utah Atmospheric Trace Gas & Air QualityJoint effort between the Global Change and Sustainability Center, the Department of Biology and the Department of Atmospheric Science.
- Utah Climate Action NetworkThe University of Utah is a member of this partnership between government, research institutions, non-profits/foundations, faith-based organizations, the private sector, and individuals working to address climate change in Utah.
