Sustainable Development Goal: 3 Good Health and Well-Being

Healthy and Safe Youth Behavior

Conduct a program inventory, evaluation, and gap analysis of mental health services and substance education and prevention programs that serve youth. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Resilient Communities Project Contact Info University Faculty Contact Ross VeLure-Roholt Youth Developement Local Government / Community Contact Chad Rosa Police Officer, City of […]

Traffic And Pedestrian Safety In State College

COMM 473 students in previous semesters studied the safety issues along Atherton Street in State College, in particular focusing their research and work on pedestrian and bicycle safety. In fall 2016, students developed a Public Relations Campaign “Drive with Care/Walk Aware” with the goal to raise awareness amongst pedestrians and drivers of safety practices in […]

Human Health Assessment For Centred Outdoors Summer Challenge

Centred Outdoors is an 11-week program designed to get individuals and families to spend time outdoors in Centre County at 9 different sites. Students in RPTM 433W will assess the designated routes at each of the 9 sites for their health benefits in terms of steps walked, distance, calories burned, difficulty rating, accessibility, etc. Students […]

Webster City White Fox Creek Bridge Engineering & Design

As part of the Senior Design Capstone Course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students provided designs and costs estimates for a pedestrian bridge spanning the White Fox Creek in Kendall Young Park within Webster City. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities Contact Info University Faculty Contact […]

Radon Mapping

A student in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences assisted the Siouxland District Health Department with this goal by researching and mapping information about radon concentrations at zip code level throughout Woodbury County. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities Contact Info University Faculty Contact […]

Community Forestry Program Development Project (2/2)

Arid communities such as Peoria are often in search of innovative and sustainable heat mitigation solutions. Urban forestry is a growing practice that can help reduce energy consumption, increase pedestrian comfort, and provide environmental benefits such as filtering pollutants from urban air. The Fall 2020 portion of the project, summarized in Part 2 of this […]

Empowering The Wet Market Waste Management Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia

Though hypermarkets and supermarkets have become the primary source of goods for most Malaysians, many prefer to get their fresh agricultural products from farmers’ and wet markets, like the Alor Gajah Wet Market in the State of Melaka. Each month, the market sends two tons of waste–a third of its total monthly food supply–to a […]

Air Quality in National City

Four air quality course projects were completed by San Diego State University (SDSU) graduate students in collaboration with National City and the Sage Project in winter 2015. The intent of this partnership was to achieve the city’s goal to quantify fine particulate matter air pollution concentrations in residential, commercial, and industrial areas near roadways/freeways in […]

Indiana University students work with local health care clinic to solve information technology challenges

IT students partner with Southern Indiana Community Health Care in order to improve internal information technology and train staff […]

Indiana University students develop programming for community garden

Students studying public health imagine Orange County community garden as site of youth education programs […]

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