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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

SUSTAINABILITY

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In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences sustainability is more than reusing and recycling鈥攊t is woven into the entire interdisciplinary curriculum. 

CLAS is deeply committed to proposing and implementing sustainability practices. The College provides the resources, structure and inspiration so that individual students, staff and faculty are empowered to make sustainability an integrated component of the College experience.

Courses across departments address issues from climate change to biodiversity, from public policy to environmental history. Specific undergraduate and graduate degree programs are also offered.

Bachelor's of Science
Sustainability Studies Minor
Bachelor's of Arts
Master's degree
Programs in Peace and Justice

Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship

The College's Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship (CBEST) seeks to promote research in biodiversity and ecosystem science with a focus on understanding ongoing changes in ecosystems, their component organisms, and the benefits they provide to society.

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Green Lab Certification

Green Lab certification gives recognition to those who are helping to make their lab area safer for people and the greater environment. Born out of a partnership between Environmental Health and Safety, the Office of Sustainability and 草榴社区 lab representatives, the certification is meant to unite all three efforts to improve lab safety and sustainability, without compromising lab productivity.

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Course Initiative Grants in Sustainability

The College offers course initiative grants for faculty to develop new courses in sustainability鈥攕trengthening faculty contributions to the College in ways that will benefit students, scholarship and intellectual life in relevant and responsible ways.

UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

NEWS AND EVENTS

POWERFUL SUSTAINABILITY MURAL

草榴社区, in partnership with the Global Philadelphia Association, unveiled a new mural dedicated to the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Created by Maggie Hobson-Baker, MFA, a faculty member in the Department of Communication and Philadelphia-based artist, the mural portrays humans as active stewards of the environment, emphasizing the interconnectedness between people and the planet.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Venkata Siva Kumar Margapuri, PhD, assistant professor of Computing Sciences at 草榴社区 has been awarded a three-year, $749,086 grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture鈥檚 National Institute of Food and Agriculture to utilize autonomous aerial vehicles, computer vision and other artificial intelligence tools to study the abundance of Bombus species鈥攃ommonly known as bumblebees鈥攖heir relationship with wild flora and factors that affect pollinator health.

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

"I believe that, fundamentally, everyone is looking to leave this planet a little better,鈥� says Amber Atwood Levy 鈥�12 MA. 鈥淚f you create the opportunities and foster the connections, people will almost always rise to the occasion to make a positive impact.鈥� As the executive director of Radnor Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to environmental stewardship, Atwood Levy鈥檚 role allows her to witness firsthand how volunteers, donors and board members can come together to make a lasting impact on the community.