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The Outdoor Adventure Program.
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Skiing, surfing, biking, rock climbing, kayaking, skydiving, hiking, white-water rafting, ice climbing, backpacking in the Grand Canyon. It’s all available to students. And if they’re still bored, they can choose from more than 120 other clubs and organizations.
Our innovative teaching.
WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Take Javier Horta, who teaches physiological and organic chemistry in the College of Health Sciences. Believing classroom time offers students precious opportunities to apply the concepts they are learning, he tried a new approach in a lab class last fall. Using what is becoming known as the “flipped” classroom method, he recorded his lectures and posted them online for students to view as homework, freeing up class time for discussions and hands-on assignments. “Students come into the classroom to have an experience, rather than just absorb data,” he says, adding that the approach was highly successful.
Our Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship’s DifferenceMaker program makes it a priority to encourage students to improve the world while they’re still in school. From an annual $25,000 Idea Challenge to assistance with business plans and patents, the program and its industry partners help students create sustainable solutions to real-world problems. The program has been so successful that Assoc. Vice Chancellor Steve Tello and Assoc. Dean of Students Brenda Evans were asked to educate other colleges about it at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Conference in March 2013.
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WE’RE CENTERED. The Easy Guy.
John Bautista—a 2013 alum and rabid River Hawk hockey fan—proudly raises a homemade Easy button every time his team puts one in the net. He’s been covered on ESPN and in a host of newspapers—and fans from other teams have followed suit. “I unintentionally started a little cult,” he says.
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Even our students have patents.
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Center for Advanced Materials. Jack & Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities. Submillimeter-Wave Technology Lab. Center for Arts and Ideas. Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace. Nanomanufacturing Center. Climate Change Initiative. Middle East Center for Peace, Development and Culture. Toxics Use Reduction Institute. Tsongas Industrial History Center. Center for Atmospheric Research. The String Project. We’re home to more than 50 research and engagement centers and institutes where cutting-edge exploration is taking place.
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