Sustaining the Urban Environment @ UC

News Archive

News stories previously posted on the SUE Home Page

2008

• November 18, 2008: SUE sponsors the first annual Celebrating Sustainability conference held all day in 427 ERC.
• October 30, 2008: PACES sponsors a discussion of Nuclear Power as part of its Climate 101 Lecture Series.
• August, 2008: SUE researchers report that many U.S. schools are in "air pollution danger zones" due to their proximity to traffic.
• June, 2008: SUE forms a new Minor in Sustainability to be housed administratively in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This Minor is open to all students at UC - no prerequisites are required - so if you have an interest in learning about sustainability, please look at the Minor in SUE at UC
• June 26, 2008: UC E-currents describes, "Getting Off the Grid and Unpacking the Jargon about Sustaining the Urban Environment"
• May 28, 2008: Members of the SUE Team are one of a half dozen groups invited to participate in the UC Mini-Showcase event at the Statehouse in Columbus, OH
• May 9, 2008: SUE announces the winners of the 2008/9 Seed Grant Competition
• April 28, 2008: City of Cincinnati's Climate Protection Steering Committee endorses Cincinnati's Climate Protection Action Plan
• April 24, 2008: Ryan Rosenweig and Sean Lee win office as the President and Vice-President of the University of Cincinnati student government. Their platform, "Slate 61", included a plank to being the base for a student-led sustainability initiative at UC.
• April 1, 2008: Cincinnati Enquirer ran an interesting article to help Cincinnati-locals go green through their choice of produce. Check out Going green one bite at a time for more details.
• February, 2008: Science Magazine releases a special issue dedicated to cities. Read more about it
• February 18, 2008: SUE releases the Request for Proposals for the 2008/9 Seed Grant Competition. Electronic submissions are due to sue@uc.edu by March 17, 2008. RFP
• February 15, 2008: NAE identifies "restoring and improving urban infrastructure" as one of fourteen grand challenges for the first half of the 21st century

2007

• December, 2007: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Former US Vice President, Al Gore.
• November 12,2007: NSF-sponsored ASCE workshop report summary identifies Mega-cities and livability as one of three research thrusts for the next decade Full Report
• October 4, 2007: UC participates in Campus Sustainability Day.
• August, 2007: Alan Hecht and William Sanders of the USEPA publish a policy debate essay on the role of the Agency in promoting urban sustainability.
• July 13, 2007: SUE 2007 Seed Grant research kickoff meeting in 427 Engineering Research Center from 10-12noon
• June 1, 2007: The journal Environmental Science and Technology highlights the challenges of urban sustainability in a special issue. Check out the feature article by Mirian Diamond and Erin Hodge on Urban Contaminant Dynamics: From Source to Effect
• April, 2007: Check out the article by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp in the April 2007, Volume 16, No. 8 issue of Prism Magazine from ASEE entitled, "Go Gree or Die - Can Engineering Schools "go green" Fast Enough to Save Our Planet?"
• March 26, 2007: Welcome to Dr. Dominic Boccelli, the first tenure-track faculty recruit for SUE
• March 15, 2007: Congratulations to the 2007 Awardees of the SUE Seed Grant Competition
• March 15, 2007: Good luck to Dr. Margaret Kupferle and her team in developing a comprehensive curriculum for SUE

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