Students present the fruits of their independent study project, Green Chemistry, at the 2009 American Chemical Society Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah from March 22-26th with Danny Oryall, Julie Haebig, Meshel Mork, Jerrid Dokey, James Goll, and Tyler Duellman (L-R). Meshel is the first undergraduate student ever to be asked to publish in the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Journal.
A unique partnership between students participating in two different Human Issues experiences resulted in this alter, which is crafted from artifacts found in the desert near the Mexican/United States border. A group of ten independent studies students, mentored by Nursing faculty Rachel Rodriguez and Erika Helmer collaborated with students from the Mexican/American Culture and Identity class taught by Beatriz Aguilar (Music) and Melanie Herzog (Art). The alter honors the experiences of past, present, and future immigrants.
Students in Susan Nanning-Sorenson’s Theater for Young Audiences class perform “Journey to El Norte” for local elementary school students. The class created all aspects of this production to explore the power of theater as a tool to raise social awareness in youth.
Human Issues students enrolled in Judy Adrian and Neal Ewer’s Lifetime Legacies course experience a new dimension to their study of death, dying, and bereavement during their visit to the hospice program at Dodge Prison in the spring of 2009.
Rolf Buschmann, Director of the Solar Info Center in Madison's Sister-City, Freiburg, Germany, chats with students in Denis Collins' Social Responsibility in Business Human Issues class, March 2009.
Instructor Tim Andrews demonstrates the characteristics of the invasive species buckthorn to students in the Roots & Shoots class, so they can identify it and remove it from the natural woodland area to allow native species to re-forest during the Fall of 2008.
Jan Zimmerman(front), Director of the Edgewood College Health Center, demonstrates taking a child's blood pressure in Guatemala for a student in Nancy Comello's Human Issues class Health Care in Guatemala in the Summer of 2008.
Professors Jinxing Chen and Bin Bin Fu pose with their students at the Great Wall of China with guest faculty member Nancy Nelson in 2007. A study tour to China serves as the engaged learning component for the class China: Tradition and Transformation.
