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Smeal Sustainability Advisory Board Profile - A Q&A With Uma Moriarity

Dr. Amaya Spoke on Sustainable Urban Logistics at Smeal's Recent Sustainability Research Seminar

Lara Fowler to Speak at Penn State's Sustainability Leadership Forum

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Erik Foley

Forget to Learn: The One Surprising Science-based Key to Durable Learning

Here is how to really mess up your own learning, according to science: put your faith in fluency. "Fluency" is the term cognitive...

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The College Brain: Why Sustainability Must Be Taught During this Critical Period

What is so special about college? Or more to the point: what is happening in the brains of 18 - 24 year olds that makes college such an...

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(Sustainability Institute Press Release) Penn State's Sustainability Institute will host a workshop to develop sustainability coursework...

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From Lurking to Learning: 5 Keys to Student Engagement Online

As someone who relies (maybe too much) on charisma, improvisation and high-levels of student engagement...this probably will be painful....

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Serving Generations: Teaching Gen Z, Executive Education for Millenials and Gen X, Baby Boomer Donor

My 18 year old son watches the NBA Finals with me while on his phone. Is he even paying attention? He blurts out observations about the...

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Step 4: Crunch the Numbers (Part 2 of 2)

1. Calculate Return on Investment (ROI) As we have been restating, you must constantly be checking with your organization to use the...

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Step 4: Crunch the Numbers (Part 1 of 2)

Finally, I get back to this....the business case for sustainability. People talk about it all the time but few know what it really...

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The 8 Things Digital Natives Really Want from Faculty

Excerpt from Teaching Digital Natives by Marc Prensky, entrepreneur, inventor and author who originally coined the term "digital native"...

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Step 3: Construct the Case

Finally, I get back to this....the business case for sustainability. People talk about it all the time but few know what it really...

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Step 2: Knowing Your Audience and the Business Case Graveyard

We are learning how to build a business case for sustainability in five steps: Prepare Know your audience Construct the Case Crunch the...