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Submissions from 2024

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Listening to the Gordon Natural Area: Field Recording as Means of Connecting with the More Than Human World, Devin Arne

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The Environment and the Humanities, Emma Craven, Cheryl Wanko, William B. Lalicker, Megan A.K. Schraedley, Maxine Gesualdi, and Joey Miller

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Rewilding Our Story: Using Storytelling to Combat Climate Change, Calli Lambard

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Amending the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Human Rights, Sovereignty, and Cultural Sustainability, Maddie Mulcahey

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The Role of Humor in Sustainability: Well-Being, (In)equity, and Community, Mia Ocean

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Sustainability Considerations of Generative A.I., Thomas Pantazes

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Coo-Coo for CoCoRaHS: Participation in a Nationwide Meteorology Citizen Science Program, Adam M. Rainear

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A Campus Beyond Plastic: Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN), Savannah Robledo and Ramiro Murguia

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Sustainability and Careers in the 21st Century, Phyllis J. Schoen and Amanda Baker

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Building a Strategic Framework with a Sustainability Lens at WCU, Stefanie Schwalm

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Lichen Ecosystem Services and a Study from the NJ Pine Barrens, Gregory Turner

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Mourning the Planet and Signs of Hope: The Role of Grief and Resilience in How Students Understand Climate Change, Zachary C. Wooten and Jocelyn Brown

Submissions from 2023

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Milk Diets, Grape Cures, and Bananas Galore: An Examination of Past and Present Wellness Culture Turned Sour, Jacqueline Alnes

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Sharing Resources with Rwanda: Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Forest of Hope Association in Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Thierry Amiable, Rebecca Chancellor, Trachanda Garcia, Aaron S. Rundus, and Jordan Schugar

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The Medieval Climate Anomaly: Drought and Societal Collapse, T. Elliott Arnold

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Epidemiologic Understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Zeinab Baba

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Should My Next Car Be An EV?, Lorenzo Cena

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Student Advocacy as a Catalyst for Sustainable and Social Change, Joshua Filer

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Preserving Home and Independence: The Economic Sustainability of Pennsylvania's Real Estate Tax System for Aging in Place, Jongwoong Kim

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Silicon in renewable power generation and storage: Decarbonizing the grid and automobile transport, Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Saving the Critically-Endangered Western Gray Whale, Jen Maresh

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Indigenous Values and their Place in Contemporary Discussions of Sustainability, Joey Miller

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Beyond Sustainability Curriculum Integration - Educating Otherwise, Paul Morgan

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Urban Mass Transit: New York State and the MTA Sustainability Initiatives on Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction, Omosehin Moyebi

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Sustainable and Organic Beekeeping in Chester County, John Pisciotta

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Something Fishy about Crime: How to Teach Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Oceans, Seas, and Resources for Sustainable Development in an Animal Cruelty Criminal Justice Elective Course, Cassandra L. Reyes

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The State of Sustainability at WCU: Key Insights from WCU’s First Sustainability Census, Aliza Richman

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What's in a Name? The Politics of Commemoration from the un-naming of the Alexander Graham Bell dorm at RIT to the Samuel Schmucker controversy at WCU, Brent Ruswick

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Transition Town Media - What do Transition Towns Bring to the Table?, Sari Steuber and Skip Shuda

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Offsets and the Path to Carbon Neutrality in Higher Education and Study Abroad, Paul Sylvester, Michael A. Di Giovine, and Bradley Flamm

Submissions from 2022

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Sustaining Communities through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman

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Realizing the Vision of WCU’s Landscape Master Plan: A Panel Discussion, Josh Braid, Rodney Mader, and Bradley Flamm

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How Inaccessible Retailer Websites Affect Blind and Low-Vision Consumers: Their Perceptions and Responses, Alex Cohen

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Invisible Trash: Emerging Contaminants in Streams and Rivers, Megan Fork

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Losing the Dark: How light pollution impacts humans and the environment, and what we can do to win back the night, Marc Gagné

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Our Need for Seed: How News Media Framed the Pandemic Gardening Boom, Roger Gatchet and Amanda Davis Gatchet

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WCU Center for Civic Engagement & Social Impact - Student Basic Needs Insecurity at West Chester University, Seth Jacobson

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Decency Won't Save Us: Critical Considerations for Occupational Sustainability, Nia Johnson

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Coping with Grief and Loneliness: The Healing Power of Green Spaces, Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha, Georgina Hanna, Katherine Ford, Carolyn Cusmano, and Nicole Lyman

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Eco-rational conversion: spheres of influence into spheres of transformation - creating an ecological society, Douglas Morris

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Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology: A Research Agenda, Christina Rosan and Megan Heckert

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Considering Sustainability from the Perspective of Accountability: Rethinking Consumerism and the Environment, Tabassum Fahim Ruby, Madeline Mulcahey, and Christine Recchi

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A Not-So-Clean Slate: A Progress Report of PA’s Automated Record Sealing Law, Matt B. Saboe and Tekia Huger-Burton

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The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts: Model Sustainability in IT Operations, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Teaching and Learning, J. T. Singh, Kevin Partridge, Teresa Hudson, and Pete Calvert

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Removing Confederate Statues, Now What?: Sustainability and Reimagining Space, Tonya Thames Taylor

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Climate Crisis Impacts to Cultural Heritage Resources: Think Globally, Act Locally, Heather Wholey

Submissions from 2021

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Dogs, Stress, and Tests, Oh My! A Wellness Program for Students Taking a High Stakes Test, Kathryn (Tina) Alessandria

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Communicate Sustainability Successfully: How to Connect with Your Audience, Drew Anderson

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Connecting in a Socially Distant World, Liz Carper

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Getting out of a Sticky Situation: Differential Escape of Spotted Lanternfly from Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques, Jennifer L. Chandler

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Disasters and BIPOC Communities: The Imperativeness of Sustainability, Hadih Deedat, Frida Navarro, and Donna Phillip

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Women, Globalization, Migration, and Work, Martha Donkor

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West Chester Borough Urban Forest: An Environmental Benefit For All, Michael B. Dunn and Joan Welch

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Getting to Neutral: Updating WCU's Climate and Sustainability Action Plan, Bradley Flamm

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Why Science is Important to Us All: Identity and Environment, Anita K. Foeman

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Creating Community Connections On & Off Campus: RamCorps, Shannon Gillespie, Nick Marcil, and McKenna Kovatch

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Co-Creating a Pedagogy of the Great Acceleration, the 6th Mass Extinction, and the Climate Crisis, Charles A. Hardy III, Brady Day, and James Lingman

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WCU’s Geoexchange System, Stream Salinization, and Heated Sidewalks: Exercises in Sustainable Connections, Martin Helmke, Patricia Haug, and Abigail Keebler

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Sustaining Diversity in Higher Education: The Importance of Investigating Success, Lisa C. Huebner

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Sustainability Impacts of Building Energy Use Management, John Lattanze

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Waste Reduction at WCU: Benchmarking Systems with the Atlas Zero Waste Program, Amy Maxcy

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Beyond Recycling: A Progress Report on WCU's Ongoing Zero Waste Assessment, Yu-Shien Ni, Andrew James, and Grace Bowden

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Creative Collaborations: Graphic Design for Sustainability Advocacy, Scotty Reifsnyder

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COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals: The Pandemic, Politics, and the Road Ahead, Gopal Sankaran

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Climate Change Communication in the [M]anthropocene, Steve Sassaman, Michael Sofis, and Scott Ramsey

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Teaching Transition: Organizing Sustainably Through Service-Learning, Megan A.K. Schraedley

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Environmental Health - The Impact of Oil Sands Mining on Peatland Ecosystems in Alberta, Canada, Melanie A. Vile

Submissions from 2020

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Eat Mor Chikin!: a case study in economic efficiency and sustainability, Thomas Andrews

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Listening to Young People: Philadelphia Youth Organizers' Perspectives on 2020 and Sustaining the Movement(s) Beyond, Hannah Ashley, Ananiya Jones, Lilah Saber, and Mayana Ashley-Carner

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A Green New Deal for Schools: Inequality, Funding, and Finance in Pennsylvania, David I. Backer

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Projecting EV Distribution and Charging Demand: DVRPC/UC Davis's EV Planning Toolkit, Adam Beam

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UN SDG 4: When Access to Education is *NOT* Enough, Christine M. Chiarelli-Helminiak

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Sustainability and the Evolution of the Academic Library Ecosystem: Pressing Forward with the Greening of WCU's Presser and F.H. Green Libraries, Walt Cressler

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Human Rights and Social, Economic, & Environmental Justice: Ethics of Samfundssind & Agape, Claire L. Dente

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Earth Day at 50: Sustainable Exhibition Planning During a Time of Pandemic, Michael A. Di Giovine, Natalie Fenner, Tyler C. Haney, Foster W. Krupp, Ben Popp, and Melina Schauermann

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Project 1851 - A Journey in Sustainability: A Tech-integrated and Regenerative Rental Property, Markos Duey

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STARS in our Eyes: Documenting WCU Sustainability Efforts, Bradley Flamm

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Updating WCU’s Climate Action Plan: Creating a Version 2 for our Community of Learners, Bradley Flamm

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Improving the State of Society and Making Men Happy: Rhetorical Citizenship in Historical and Contemporary Vegetarian/Vegan Discourses, Kristin E. Kondrlik

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Second-Best Prioritization of Environmental Cleanups, Jacob LaRiviere, Matthew J. McMahon, and Justin Roush

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Who Speaks for the Trees? The Movement for the Rights of Nature, Thomas Linzey

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Pack It Up, Pass It On: Ditch the Dumpster WCU, Amy L. Maxcy

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Envisioning Higher Education for Sustainability AFTER the Sh*t Hits the Fan, Paul Morgan and Rebecca Drake

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Preparing Youth for Climate Action: Philadelphia Teachers Facilitating Student-Led Social Change in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms, Kathleen Riley and Elizabeth Soslau

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Solve Climate by 2030, Jessica L. Schedlbauer and Paul Morgan

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West Chester University Fair Trade Campaign, Kathleen Tobelmann

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West Chester's Energy Future, Will Williams

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Contempt in the Public Sphere, Joan Woolfrey

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Truth and Transformation in the US: A Path Towards Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Susan R. Wysor Nguema

Submissions from 2019

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Fatness, Intersectionality, and Environmental Justice: Working Towards Health and Sustainability, Ginneh L. Akbar and Meg Panichelli

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West Chester Goes Green: 3 WCU Students Work at Grassroots Levels in the West Chester Borough, Courtney Bodle, Kara Thorpe, and Paige Vermeulen

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The Biopsychology of Ending Poverty: Lessons from Research on Economic Instability, Household Chaos, and Child Cortisol, Eleanor D. Brown

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Sustainability Research and Practice Seminar [Fall 2019 flyer], Bradley Flamm

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Zero-Net Emissions by 2050: Climate Realities and Challenges, Karl Hausker

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Zoning for Climate Change: Learning from Leader Suburbs, Dorothy Ives Dewey

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Copenhagen: Sustainable by Design, David P. Jones and Karen M. Watkins

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Sustainability in an IT Context, Dikran Kassabian

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Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment: Past, Present, & Future, Franklin Kury

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The Ethics of Outdoor Education: Increasing Access while Minimizing Environmental Impacts, Steven Sassaman

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WCU Study Abroad and Carbon Offsets: Not whether but whXen NOW!, Paul Sylvester