Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Guest Speaker today! Vivek Shandas

Professor Vivek Shandas - Portland State University
Shandas is a faculty member of the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; and founder of the Sustainable Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, working to connect environmental impacts and human behavior to improve decision-making.


As the founder of the newly established Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab, his team focuses on three substantive areas of investigation:
  1. Examining feedbacks between environmental change and human behavior
  2. Developing community-based indicators for measuring the social and environmental conditions
  3. Characterizing the relationship between urban development patterns and environmental quality.
Prior to serving at Portland State University, he was a school teacher in Oregon (Vernonia); curriculum developer in California (San Jose); and, a health and environmental policy analyst for the Governor of New York State (Albany).
*With your shoulder partner come up with one question that you want to ask Professor Shandas. Be ready to ask the question later today. You may come up with different/more questions after you hear his presentation.

Take notes and write down:
1 question or something you're still wondering about
2 things that you learned today.

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