Annual Symposium on Teaching, Research and Outreach
A Continuing Dialogue on the Synergy Between Teaching, Research and Outreach

Invited Speaker:

Dr. Paul Roodin
Director, Experience-based Education
SUNY Oswego

Service-Learning:
New wine in old bottles,
old wine in new bottles?

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Welcome, Dr. Chuck Spuches, Associate Dean, ESF Outreach

Opening Remarks by President Neil Murphy

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Roodin, Director, Experience-based Education and Professor of Psychology, SUNY College at Oswego:

• Service-Learning: New wine in old bottles, old wine in new bottles?

Dr. Allan Drew (Forestry & Natural Resources Management) & Dr. James Hassett (Environmental Resources & Forest Engineering)

• Engineers Without Borders Project in Dominica W.I.
  In January, 2005, the SUNY-ESF student chapter of Engineers Without Borders installed a micro-hydro system for streamwater generation of electricity at the Archbold Tropical Research & Education Center in Dominica, W.I. The venture was a service learning project done in conjunction with students from the University of Vermont and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics there. The turbine generator has the capacity to supply 30 percent of the electrical energy needs of the Archbold Center, a demonstration of sustainable energy technology to island residents and an improvement over diesel generated power.

Dr. Rick Beal (ESF Outreach)

• The ESF Science Corps embodies SUNY ESF's vision: A Better World through Environmental Discovery
  The Science Corps supports campus-based, in-school, workplace and field-based STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning and professional development experiences for middle and high school students and teachers. Established by a National Science Foundation grant, ESF undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. students, faculty and other volunteers comprise the Science Corps. Members are "front line" role models for students whose academic and career plans are emerging. Current Science Corps efforts include ESF in the High School, the Environmental Challenge, and ESF SCIENCE (Summer Camps Investigating Ecology in Neighborhood and City Environments), a project supported by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant. Efforts are undertaken in partnership with urban, suburban and rural schools as well as numerous public, private and non-profit organizations.
  
  Our project's focus is to produce environmental science leaders who will be able to meet the extraordinary environmental challenges of the 21st century. Our project will offer transformational opportunities for graduate students to become environmental scientists who possess the skills required to meet society's immediate and future challenges. We will enhance their effectiveness as environmental science communicators and as research scientists who can actively engage and make a positive difference in their own communities through Service-Research a variant of the Service-Learning concept.

Dr. Robin Hoffman (Landscape Architecture) & Dr. Rick Smardon (Environmental Studies)

• Landscape Architecture Studio and Save the County, Land Trust
  This break out session will highlight the fall 2006 LA studio that did site inventory and analysis for a proposed development project on the Seneca River in Cicero. This work was of mutual benefit to the Town of Cicero, STC Land Trust, developer and students alike.

Dr. Sue Senecah (Environmental Studies)

• State-wide Dialogs on Ecosystem based Management
  Eight graduate students, many in the GPES program of Environmental Communication & Participatory Processes, assisted in five statewide dialogues held in Syracuse, Buffalo, New York City, Long Island, and Albany. The five, 4-hour events engaged over 500 participants in a collaborative learning process regarding implementing the state's 2006 commitment to ecosystem-based management and formed the basis for a subsequent report to the new New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council. The events were sponsored by the Coastal Resources Division of the NYS Department of State.

Leah Flynn (ESF Student Life) and Eve Tamela (Vista Volunteer)

• ESF Campus Day of Service
  ESF students spent Saturday, September 22 in service to the community on specific projects: Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), Rescue Mission / Liverpool Warehouse, The Samaritan Center, Sarah House Spay and Neuter Syracuse (SANS), Westcott Community Center. The students work at these sites will be featured in the roundtable discussion. What is service learning and how does the service students provide to the community relate to the definition provided at this Symposium?

Prof. Cheryl Doble (Landscape Architecture)

• The Franciscan Vietnamese Peace Garden
  This roundtable will review a collaborative project between ESF
  Landscape Architecture students, Syracuse Community Development, local nonprofits, a private design firm and the Syracuse Vietnamese Community. The project explores strategies to strengthen academic/community partnerships, foster cross-cultural dialogue and facilitate student reflection.