| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.46 |
| Liaison | Francis Mitalo |
| Submission Date | April 21, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of California, Riverside
AC-4: Graduate Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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3.00 / 3.00 |
John
Cook Director of Sustainability Sustainability |
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Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused major, degree program, or the equivalent for graduate students?:
Yes
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The name of the sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program (1st program):
Global Climate and Environmental Change
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A brief description of the graduate degree program (1st program):
"The Earth Science Department is excited to announce its new Graduate Program in Global Climate and Environmental Change. Graduate students in this program will be broadly trained in Geological perspectives of climate change including:
Using the excellent climate record preserved in the Sierra Nevada's glaciers, moraines and lakes to decipher the pattern of local climate change and the relationship to Cenozoic glacial cycles
Global and regional drivers for climate change and associated feedback mechanisms: from changes in tectonic regimes to fluctuations in the jet stream
Isotopic studies of modern glacial lakes, Quaternary lake cores and alpine soils
Sedimentolgy of glacial deposits and stratigraphic relations with associated units
Evidence of gas hydrate destabilization and impact on both recent and ancient global climate change"
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The website URL for the graduate degree program (1st program) :
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The name of the sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program (2nd program):
Environmental Sciences
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A brief description of the graduate degree program (2nd program):
This interdepartmental program provides students with broad training and exposure to the many facets of environmental science, as well as the specialized study of a specific research topic. Administered by nearly 50 UCR faculty from different environmentally related disciplines, research and course offerings are diverse, ranging from fundamental soil, aquatic, and atmospheric chemistry through resource and environmental management, economics and policy, to a host of other areas within both the natural and social sciences.
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The website URL for the graduate degree program (2nd program):
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The name of the sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program (3rd program):
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
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A brief description of the graduate degree program (3rd program):
Offered by the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering. The program features both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Fields of specialization include:
Biochemical engineering
Environmental biotechnology
Advanced materials and nanotechnology
Electrochemical engineering
Molecular theory and simulation
Air quality systems engineering
Water quality systems engineering
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The website URL for the graduate degree program (3rd program):
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The name and website URLs of all other sustainability-focused, graduate-level degree program(s):
Environmental Chemistry: http://chem.ucr.edu/research/environmental_chemistry.html
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Does the institution offer one or more graduate-level sustainability-focused minors, concentrations or certificates?:
Yes
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The name of the graduate-level sustainability-focused minor, concentration or certificate (1st program):
Public Policy - Environmetal Policy Focus
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A brief description of the graduate minor, concentration or certificate (1st program):
The School of Public Policy offers an Environmental Policy focus in the new MA program addressing sustainability and environmental regulations and justice at the local, regional, state and national level. Areas of concentration are energy, water, food security, air and water pollution and transportation.
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Environmental Chemistry Graduate Program learning outcome: Environmental chemistry research focuses on chemical processes that affect the sources, composition, reactions, transport, and fates of chemicals species in natural environments (air, water, and soil), the impacts of human activities on these environments, and chemical aspects of pollution prevention and contaminant remediation.
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