We’re excited to introduce Phase 1 of our new website! In addition to a fresh, clean design, you’ll find:

• A more detailed listing of the many facets of our project
• Information on our growing catalog of courses
• Detailed listings of our research publications
• Regularly updated blog posts that relate to sustainability science, teacher and educator preparation, and the latest SSE news
• The return of some of our most popular content from the original webpage, including Teaching Tools and an overview of the Four Ways of Thinking.

The future of SSE is bright, so keep checking back for more updates and let us know if there particular elements you would like us to include! We look forward to achieving our mission, one educator at a time!

SCN 400 is a dynamic and innovative required course, which is delivered in a hybrid format for all students majoring in Elementary Education in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. This Fellowship offers an invaluable opportunity for individuals who are interested in teaching sustainability science to future teachers, and who would like to gain real-world teaching experience in higher education. However, being offered and accepting membership into the Fellowship is more than just a teaching opportunity; it’s an agreement to hold oneself to the professional standards that SSE has cultivated with our instructors, and to participate in our PLC, which comes with a time commitment of approximately 8-10 hours per week.

Teaching Fellowship requirements include:

• Reviewing all online material (principally 1 hour of video per week)
• Equitable, accurate and timely grading (3-6 hours per week)
• Attendance and instruction during face-to-face portions of the hybrid class (1.5 hours per week)
• Preparing for class in advance using pre-made in-class materials (1 hour per week)
• Responding and communicating with students effectively (in-person and via email)
• Participating in one (3 hour long) mandatory meeting per semester at ASU’s Biodesign Institute. The semester “boot camp” meeting takes place prior to the start of the semester, and is a detailed overview of course specifics, updates, etc.
• Participating in 10 (45-minute) mandatory meetings during the semester. Instructor meeting dates and times are determined on a case-by-case basis to align with each person’s schedule and needs.

Recipients will be expected to achieve success and meet all ASU Faculty Associate requirements. Additionally, they will be mentored throughout the semester by current and past instructors, as well as by the SSE team. Graduate students and professionals with a background in science, technology, engineering, and/or teacher preparation are strongly encouraged to apply by submitting their résumé and a letter of interest to Program Director Annie Hale at annie.hale@asu.edu.

Industry leaders and prominent authors and futurists will join ASU faculty and selected students for an intense exploration of emerging technology and the implications of those breakthroughs for people and environments.

“This is a time for humanists, artists and designers to leave their ivory tower and seek to integrate their knowledge in interdisciplinary teams that design the future,’’ said Thanassis Rikakis, a professor and director of the ASU School of Arts, Media and Engineering in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and one of the principal organizers of the event.

The three-day conference has attracted such internationally prominent changemakers and futurists as author Bruce Sterling (“Beyond the Beyond”), Sherry Turkle (“Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”), Bruce Mau (“Incomplete Manifesto for Growth,” “Massive Change Network”), Neal Stephenson (“Snow Crash,” “The Diamond Age,” “Reamde”) and Stewart Brand (“The Whole Earth Discipline”).

“I’m amazed at the nerve we seem to have hit with ‘Emerge.’ We have people flying in from all over the world and the country – on their own nickel – just to be part of it,’’ said Joel Garreau, a key conference organizer and Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. “We have a Nobel Prize winner who’s happy to be a participant in a workshop – not even its leader. And there he’ll be right next to extraordinarily talented students, faculty, and people from the community,” Garreau said.

“Emerge” is built around eight areas where ASU research is breaking new ground from disease destroyers to human enhancement. These Futures@ASU presentations will lead into interdisciplinary workshops where one of the most exciting results of the conference is expected to happen.

“Emerge” is sponsored at ASU by the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, the Office of the President, the Prevail Project of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, the School of Sustainability, LightWorks, the Center for Nanotechnology and by Intel.

For more information, including times and locations, visit emerge.asu.edu.
Susan Felt, susan.felt@asu.edu
480-965-0478
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

A statement from the Mata Amritanandamayi Math said that around five lakh people were expected to attend the celebrations, titled ‘Amritavarsham 60’. Math’s board of trustees vice-chairman Amritaswarupananda Puri said on Saturday that the core part of the celebrations would span for three days, starting September 25. On September 25 and 26, an international summit, titled ‘Our Villages, Our World: What Can We Offer?’, will be held on Amritapuri campus of Amrita University.

The inaugural function will include addresses by A P J Kalam, eminent scientist M S Swaminathan and Nobel laureate Leland H Hartwell. Many other renowned scholars, senior government officials, business leaders, environmentalists, scientists and educationalists will be present. “The concept is to use the ideas generated by the summit and implement them in our 101 village adoption programme,” the swami said. “On September 26, Modi will unveil a number of new scientific inventions and prototypes by Amrita University that we are offering to society. These include a wireless ECG-monitoring system called ‘Amrita Spandanam’ and a personal safety alert system, that has more than 15 features, for women in distress,” he said.

The main project to be unveiled this year is a programme to adopt 101 villages across the country, with the intention of making them self-reliant role-model villages, the swami said, stating that this would be launched on September 27. On the evening of the same day, Oommen Chandy will inaugurate a set of new charitable ventures of Mata’s ashram.

Published September 22nd 2013 by The New Indian Express