Campus News
Last Week to Complete the UA Transportation Survey
The University of Arkansas is launching a comprehensive study of current and future transportation challenges and opportunities on campus. As a first step in the process, all students, faculty, staff and campus visitors are invited to fill out an online survey about the transportation and parking issues that concern them. The survey information will be used as part of the study to help develop a long-term transportation and parking plan for the campus. The survey will remain open until Friday, January 30.
This is your chance to provide feedback that will help in shaping campus transportation for years to come. If you bike, walk, or bus to campus, it is especially important for you to let the university know how to make it easier for you to keep up these sustainable habits.
Events
Architect Michael Murphy — ‘Beyond the Building’
Michael Murphy will present a lecture titled “Beyond the Building” at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.
Murphy is the executive director of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded with Alan Ricks in 2010. MASS Design Group is a nonprofit architectural firm based in both Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, that aims to improve people’s lives through design and to be an example for how designers can rethink their role in the world. Their work, spanning across Africa, Haiti, and the United States, focuses on leveraging architecture to become an engine for better health, economic growth, and long-term sustainability.
Monday, January 26th, 5:00 PM
Vol Walker Hall, Room 250
RecycleMania Begins Feburary 1st
From February 1st to March 28th, the University of Arkansas will be participating in RecycleMania 2015, its eighth entry into this nationwide competition to raise recycling and waste management awareness across American schools. The Office for Sustainability will be hosting an E-Waste Drive as well as a Better Books Drive during this time, so we encourage everyone to take the extra time in these coming eight weeks to recycle as much as possible. Come by the Sustainability House to drop off any used or broken electronics you’d like to get rid of, as well as old books you want to donate to the Book Drive.
More Information
Monday, December 29 to Friday, January 16, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
2615 S Brink Drive
Fayetteville, AR
New Orleans Social Justice Student Conference
Join student organizers from across the country for a weekend of building our organizing skills, strengthening the foundations to a unified social justice movement, and enjoying the Big Easy!
With a focus on workers’ rights campaigns, we’ll also here from leaders across many different social justice movements and learn how we can take concrete steps on campus to make a positive impact!
Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers Needed for 2015 Census of Local Homeless Population
The Community and Family Institute at the University of Arkansas will conduct its biennial census of the homeless population in Washington and Benton Counties at the end of this month. A large number of volunteers are needed to ensure the success of this effort, which benefits the homeless by providing critical information needed in the planning and funding of services.
A short training session will be held from 6:00-7:30 PM Monday, Jan. 26, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on East Street in Fayetteville. Further information is available by contacting Fitzpatrick at kfitzpa@uark.edu.
The actual 24-hour census will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, and end at 11 PM Friday, Jan. 30.
Job & Internship Opportunities
Hot Springs National Parks Internships
Hot Springs National Park is recruiting for several paid internship positions for the summer of 2015 within the natural resources management program (housing will be provided at no cost to the intern if the selected intern/s is/are not local). Three of the internship applications periods are open now.
The George Melendez Wright Young Leaders in Climate Change Internship (to apply, visit http://parksclimateinterns.org) at Hot Springs National Park is one of only 12 such internships in the nation. The intern will analyze precipitation, groundwater flow, and fuel loads within the recharge zone to assist park managers with future land use decisions as climate change continues to affect park resources. A full description of the internship can be found at http://parksclimateinterns.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hot-Springs.pdf. The National Park Service’s Climate Change Response team has produced a video about the YLCC program, which can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=629441983844448. The deadline to apply is January 30.
The Geological Society of America GeoCorps Geoscientists-in-Parks Internship program at Hot Springs National Park will select up to two physical science interns to focus on the water quality of the hot springs and other ground and surface waters of the park. The position description and application details can be found at https://rock.geosociety.org/eo/viewJob.asp?jobID=1619. Effectively monitoring water quality of the springs is a critical component of achieving the park’s mission to preserve the hot springs, and this internship will work towards that goal. The deadline to apply is February 3.
The Geological Society of America GeoCorps Diversity Internship program at Hot Springs National Park will select up to two natural resources interns to focus on the monitoring and management of invasive plant species in the park. The position description and application details can be found at https://rock.geosociety.org/eo/viewJob.asp?jobID=1600. Invasive species threaten forest health in the park, and beginning an eradication program will benefit the ecosystem. The deadline to apply is February 3.
Fayetteville Farmers Market Internship
The Fayetteville Farmers’ Market Is looking for students interested in doing service hours or required internships at the Fayetteville Farmers Market or potentially on the farms with some of our producers. Please contact Leann Halsey (ffmbusinesscoordinator@gmail.com) if you are interested or have questions. She is the business manager for the FFM. This is a great opportunity to gain experience with our local foods system!
Saint John’s University Sustainability Fellow
The Department of Sustainability and Saint John’s University invite applications for a full-time, 1 year benefit eligible position of Sustainability Fellow. This position will begin approximately June 1, 2015 through May 30, 2016. This position exists to provide a job-based learning opportunity for a recent college graduate interested in a career in campus or corporate sustainability. Individuals graduating in May 2015 will be considered.
This position is responsible to educate and engage the campus community about sustainability issues and initiatives. Additionally, the fellow works to move the University towards its sustainability goals and to monitor its progress.
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Fayetteville Public Library
They Fayetteville Public Library is inviting UA sustainability students to get involved by volunteering at the library. Volunteers can set their own hours and choose from a variety of programs and departments.
Margaret Burdette, Manager of Volunteer Services
Fayetteville Public Library
401 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville, AR 72701
direct phone – 479.856.7104 | library phone – 479.856.7000
www.faylib.org
TriCycle Farms
Tri Cycle Farms, located at the corner of Sycamore and Garland Avenue, is a centrally located urban farm on the blue and red bus routes (free parking is also available at the Trinity United Methodist Church). The mission of Tri Cycle Farms is to “build community through soil,” and the nonprofit (via fiscal partnership with the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology) is working broadly with other like-minded organizations in the region to strengthen food security. Tri Cycle Farms has ongoing “Farm to Table” programs, gardening classes, volunteer opportunities, chicken husbandry, herb walks, a composting system, and new plans to develop a farmer’s market with the Trinity United Methodist Church, which is directly across the street from Tri Cycle.
Contact Don Bennett at fayettevilletricyclefarms@gmail.com or 479-966-0572, or Joanna Pollock at jbperson@uark.edu or 708-828-5695 for more information about how to get involved or tour Tri Cycle. You can also find Tri Cycle Farms on Facebook.
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