The sustainable
University
As Clark continues to address changing environmental
trends, Clark’s Energy Awareness Program (CEAP) rallies
faculty, students and staff behind university efforts to
go green and provides opportunities for the campus
community to join discussions about electricity
consumption, how the university is responding, and how
each member of the community can make a difference
through simple changes like turning off lights when
leaving an office or shutting down a computer monitor
when not in use.
CEAP, founded by a group of students, faculty and
staff to educate others on campus about energy
conservation, has recently enlisted the help of Clark
student Vanessa Puglisi ‘10, who makes rounds across the
campus to conserve electricity by shutting off lights in
unoccupied spaces. Likewise Energy Ambassadors in each
University Department—individuals charged with shutting
off all appliances, lights and air conditioners when
it’s time to leave the office—have also been appointed.
Each week, CEAP releases a tip relevant to reducing
electricity consumption on campus. Here’s an
energy-saving tip for you:
Switch incandescent bulbs in your home or office to a
compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
As you work toward reducing your electricity consumption this summer,
replacing incandescent bulbs energy-efficient CFLs can make a difference.
According to campus sustainability coordinator David Schmidt ’04, CFLs not only
meet lighting output needs, they can also match the warm color and feel of
traditional incandescent bulbs. Instead of using an electric current to heat
thin filaments, CFLs use tubes coated with fluorescent materials (called
phosphors) that emit light when electrically charged. The CFL converts more
electrical energy into light, and less into waste heat. Even though they emit
the same amount of light, the CFL uses 15-watts where an incandescent uses 60
watts. During its lifetime, the CFL will save 2000 times its weight in
greenhouse gas emissions.
New appointment brings art-based learning focus to campus and beyond
Ted Buswick
recently joined Clark as Graduate School of Management (GSOM)
executive-in-residence. Buswick, also of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), will
focus on Leadership and the Arts, acting as a catalyst for arts-based learning.
Arts-based learning is based on the premise that the relationship between the
arts and businesses should be a two-way street—that the arts can contribute a
great deal to business rather than just being a source for sponsorship. Buswick
will work with students, faculty, area arts organizations and businesses,
encouraging greater use of arts-based learning. He will also teach one course a
year. As one of his first activities, he would like to map the field of
arts-based learning in central Massachusetts and is currently seeking input from
alumni and others who have conducted training that uses the arts. If you, or
your company or organization, have used training that involves the arts, please
contact him at tbuswick@clarku.edu to share your experiences.
Clark mourns the loss of Professor Arthur Chou
Arthur W. Chou, professor of mathematics and computer science at Clark University, was struck and killed by a commuter train on June 25 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Professor Chou joined the Clark University faculty in 1982 as assistant professor of mathematics and computer science and was subsequently promoted to associate professor in 1989 and full professor this year. He taught a range of classes at Clark, including calculus, computer programming and bioinformatics. He helped establish and was the current director of the bioinformatics concentration.
A special remembrance for Professor Chou will appear in the fall issue of Clarknews. Memorial donations in his memory may be made to (1) Professional Educational Services International (PESI) 3536 Arden Road, Hayward, CA 94545 or sent c/o CGCM (2) United Board for Christian High Education in Asia for Tunghai University, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1221 New York, N.Y. 10115.
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