{"id":375,"date":"2012-03-22T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/about\/sustainability\/education\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:48:09","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sustainability\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Faculty, students, and staff employ course-based or outside of course activities that enable them to pursue research in areas of environment and sustainability.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Environmental Research Opportunities<\/h2>\n\n

Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI)
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\nThe CURI program provides opportunities for St. Olaf students from all academic disciplines to gain an in-depth understanding of a particular subject through working closely with a St. Olaf faculty member in a research framework. Many\u00a0CURI research projects<\/a>\u00a0relate to issues of environment and sustainability. These research collaborations take place during both the summer and the academic year. The CURI program provides funding for students to disseminate their research to a wider audience by presenting at conferences or in other appropriate venues.<\/p>\n

Research with Local & Global Partners\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

At least fifteen faculty members engage in scholarly work associated with environmental sustainability concerns spanning local to global scales. Many of these same faculty participate in the environmental studies department while others see an environmental context as a rich space for scholarship and creative output that can lead to social and environmental change.<\/p>\n

Independent Study\/Independent Research<\/b><\/p>\n

Students interested in conducting research have opportunities to partner with faculty to pursue research through 297 and 398 numbered courses during the academic year.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t

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Seth Binder – Environmental Studies\/Economics<\/h6>\n

Evaluated mechanisms that express humanity’s fundamental environmental limits and opportunities for cooperative land use\/commons.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Kiara Jorgenson – Environmental Studies\/Religion<\/h6>\n

Published work that wrestles with ecotheologies, biophilia, and ecological resistance movements.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Charles Umbanhowar Jr. – Environmental Studies\/Biology<\/h6>\n

Examined the dynamics between fire and vegetation in the boreal forests boundaries; also serves as the Director of the Natural Lands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jenna Coughlin – Norwegian\/Nordic Studies<\/h6>\n

Directed a research project on the international reception of Greta Thunberg and youth climate activism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n

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Clean River Partners<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t
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Environmental studies and biology faculty and students have been instrumental in supporting the research projects of Clean River Partners,<\/a>\u00a0a local NGO concerned with water quality and agricultural and urban runoff for the Cannon River watershed that drains 1,460 square miles of land in southeastern Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n

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