Month: July 2021

New Courses Seminars, Workshops, Lectures

Courses of Interest to IGC in Fall 2021: Policy Gateway; Microbial Analysis; & Systems Thinking

Post author By jcoker
Post date July 30, 2021

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August 2, 2021

Policy Gateway: Policy and Decision Making in Scientific Domains

Key concepts in policy making, including policy analysis and decision making in complex social and technical settings. Policy process theories and evaluation tools. Concepts of governance including public values, ethics, and variable impacts across communities. Relationships among public policy decision processes and science, technology, and engineering, including disciplinary norms.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Instructors: GCC Affiliate Todd Schenk (SPIA), and Karen Hult (PSCI)

PSCI 5104 (SPIA 5104) (STS 5104): Policy Gateway: Policy and Decision Making in STEM-H Domains | Wed 4:00-6:45 pm | CRN: 92410 in-person or CRN: 92413 online | 3 credits

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Introduction to Microbial Community Analysis

Do you need to characterize the impact of the microbial communities in your study system? Do you already have sequence data describing microbial communities that you need to process? Are you curious about the current state of the science for studying microbiomes?

GCC affiliated faculty from the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences , Drs. Brian Badgley and David Haak (SPES) are again offering a broad-based soils course for those that have had little exposure to the below ground world.

Interested students from all backgrounds are encouraged to participate, regardless of previous formal training in microbiology. This course is designed to provide students with a practical, hands-on introduction to current state of the art approaches to characterizing microbial communities in a research context. Students can participate in the course using either sequence data from their own research or will be assisted in finding publicly available data to analyze.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

SPES 6984: Introduction to Microbial Community Analysis | Thurs 8:00 – 9:15 am in-person | CRN: 92700 | 3 credits

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Systems Thinking Pedagogy & Praxis

Strategies promoting systems thinking in formal and non-formal educational and community contexts. Instructional design for developing systems thinkers. Systems approaches to understanding problematic situations and creating change using agricultural, community-based, and extension education examples. Foundational complex systems concepts and systems thinking perspectives for social and socio-ecological systems. Pre: Graduate standing (3H, 3C).

Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:

Differentiate foundational complex systems ideas and systems thinking perspectives
Evaluate systems approaches for their utility in educational contexts
Implement teaching and learning strategies for promoting systems thinking as well as revealing perspectives and assumptions in educational and community contexts
Design an educational intervention or tool to foster systems thinking in a real-world educational and/or community context

Course topics

Foundational complex systems concepts and systems thinking perspectives
Using systems approaches to understanding problematic situations and creating change in educational contexts
Teaching and learning strategies for promoting systems thinking in educational and community contexts
- Framing complex problems as systems problems
- Systems thinking approaches to working with groups for change
- Using a critical lens to reveal perspectives and assumptions
- Teaching systems thinking in formal educational contexts
Instructional design for systems thinking in educational and community contexts

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Instructor: Hannah H. Scherer, PhD (hscherer@vt.edu); Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, STEM Education in Agriculture

ALCE 5704: Systems Thinking in Pedgogy and Praxis | Thurs 2:00 – 4:45 pm in-person | CRN: 91223 | 3 credits

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Meet the new Interfaces of Global Change Curriculum Committee

Post author By jcoker
Post date July 26, 2021

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July 26, 2021

Meet the newest members of the Interfaces of Global Change Curriculum Committee (IG3C), GCC faculty members Jennifer Russell and Holly Kindsvater, and IGC Fellows Amanda Hensley and Tyler Weiglein.

Several Global Change Center faculty members and IGC Fellows have recently completed terms on the committee. We extend sincere gratitude to Bruce Hull, Jeff Walters, Sarah Kuchinsky, and Melissa Burt for their service. We would also like to highlight the leadership of Bruce and Jeff, who have provided immense energy and guidance over the past several years to evolve and strengthen the IGC curriculum. The entire IG3C team has navigated a tumultuous 18 months in our academic journey and guided the IGC community and seminar endeavors admirably. Thank you, all!

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Current IG3C Members

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Julia Gohlke
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Erin Hotchkiss
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Cully Hession
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Michelle Stocker

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Jennifer Russell
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Holly Kindsvater
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Amanda Hensley
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Tyler Weiglein
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A special thank you to these outgoing IG3C members!

We deeply appreciate your time, energy, and balanced guidance in this leadership role.

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Bruce Hull

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Jeff Walters

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Sarah Kuchinsky

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Melissa Burt

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Announcements IGC Interfaces of Global Change IGEP

Welcome new GCC Advisory Committee Members

Post author By jcoker
Post date July 14, 2021

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July 27, 2021

Several Global Change Center faculty members have recently completed terms on the GCC Advisory Committee. Each member has shown great leadership and resilience during a year of an unprecedented global adversities through their research, teaching, and guidance of the GCC. Please join us in thanking Brian Badgley, Kelly Cobourn, Brian Romans, and Kendra Sewall, who have provided extraordinary service over the past two years!

Welcome Leandro Castello, Chloé Lahondère, Kevin McGuire, and Ignacio Moore who will serve through 2023![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_separator style=”double” css=”.vc_custom_1597703213177{margin-top: 3px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]

Current GCC Advisory Board Members

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Bill Hopkins

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Sally Entrekin

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David Haak

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Leah Johnson

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Leandro Castello
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Chloé Lahondère
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Kevin McGuire
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Ignacio Moore
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A special thank you to these outgoing Advisory Committee members!

We deeply appreciate your time, energy, and balanced guidance in this leadership role.

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Brian Badgley

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Kelly Cobourn

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Brian Romans

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Kendra Sewall

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The Global Change Center Advisory Committee is composed of GCC affiliated Virginia Tech faculty representing the broadly defined thematic areas of the center (habitat loss, pollution, invasive species, disease, climate change), plus others in relevant fields (e.g., sociology, economics, policy, history). Committee members are appointed by the GCC Director Bill Hopkins for two-year terms, and represent a balance of perspectives and interests from around campus. The mission of the committee is to develop policies, goals, and directives of the center, as well as assisting in conducting the center’s business.

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