The Adirondack Semester at Clarkson University
clarkson.edu/adksemester
The Adirondack Semester is a 15-credit off-campus domestic study program for undergraduates pursuing an experience that is enriching both academically and culturally. Students from any major who are committed to learn about environmental science, policy, economics and the human history and contemporary issues of the Adirondack Region are encouraged to apply.
The Adirondack Park is the largest park in the contiguous states and is referred to as a great experiment in conservation and regulated economic development. Our mission is to deliver a blend of traditional and experiential education sprung forth from the struggle in our Park to find balance and sustainability. Students residing at Paul Smith's College, near Saranac Lake, NY, participate in an interdisciplinary curriculum geared towards cultivating practical skills for the professional world. Our curriculum employs components of experiential education, undergraduate research, collaborative assignments and projects, writing-intensive courses, learning communities, common intellectual experiences and community-based learning. Students’ acquire content knowledge to analyze complex problems related to environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Students accepted in this program will learn from Clarkson faculty, all of whom are distinguished scholars who have worked in the Adirondacks. Students will be in session with Adirondack Park leaders, policy makers, residents and business owners and learn from peers in mentored team projects. Focus is on the Adirondack Park’s social and natural sciences: its expansive wilderness, residents, governing agencies, economics, organizations and businesses that shape policies and commerce.
Diving at Cascade Lake.
Our Adirondack Center for Education and Sustainability, beginning in Fall 2017, will be housed at Paul Smith's College, near Saranac Lake. A Resident Advisor/student that oversees housing and supports faculty will be on site. Students can attend a fall or spring semester that begins with a 3 week Sense of Place course, followed by two- 6 week blocks that run 2 courses concurrently. The final week of the semester, students present their Integrated Research Projects back on Clarkson’s campus.
Live a semester as a resident explorer, entrepreneur, environmental scientist, poet and policy advocate of the Adirondack Park, one of the largest protected landscapes in North America. Become absorbed and committed, and think bigger and work harder than you ever have to create intelligent solutions in a six-million acre laboratory for wildlife, small town communities, and recreation enthusiasts alike.
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 History
00:01:23 1.1 Founding
00:04:07 1.2 Expansion
00:05:09 1.3 Affiliation with SUNY
00:06:08 2 Campuses
00:06:17 2.1 Syracuse
00:10:49 2.2 Wanakena
00:11:32 2.3 Field stations and forests
00:13:00 3 Academics
00:15:32 4 Research
00:16:35 5 Campus life
00:18:49 6 Gateway Center
00:21:00 7 Athletics
00:21:09 7.1 USCAA
00:21:47 7.2 Woodsman
00:22:16 7.3 Club sports
00:22:43 7.4 Athletics history
00:23:06 8 Affiliation with Syracuse University
00:24:52 9 Traditions
00:25:58 10 Notable alumni
00:26:34 11 Environmental leadership
00:26:59 12 See also
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Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-B
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF, or ESF) is an American, specialized, doctoral-granting institution based in Syracuse, New York. It is immediately adjacent to Syracuse University, within which it was founded, and with whom it maintains a special relationship. ESF is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. ESF also operates facilities in the Adirondack Park (including the Ranger School in Wanakena), the Thousand Islands, elsewhere in central New York, and Costa Rica. The College's curricula focus on the understanding, management and sustainability of the environment and natural resources. ESF is considered by Peterson's to be the premier college in the U.S. for the study of environmental and natural sciences, design, engineering, policy and management of natural resources and the environment. The college has expanded its initial emphasis on forestry to include professional education in environmental science, landscape architecture, environmental studies, and engineering in addition to distinguished programs in the biological and physical sciences. ESF is ranked at 43rd in the 2017 US News & World Report rankings of the top public national universities. It commemorated its centennial in 2011.
MD International (Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, 1958)
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon introduces this film, which outlines the work of American physicians abroad. In Pusan, Korea, the work of the Catholic order of the Maryknoll Sisters in operating a clinic in the slums and visiting the sick in their homes is shown. On an island near Hong Kong, Drs. Olaf Skinsons, Neil Frazer, and Douglas Harmon work with lepers. In the Sarawak town of Kapit in Malaysia, Dr. Harold Brewster works with a tribe of former headhunters whose major health problems are malaria, tuberculosis, intestinal parasites, and dysentery. Dr. Brewster and his staff are shown traveling by longboat to live for three or four days at a time in the long houses of the natives, to treat them and attempt to teach them basic hygiene. In Rangoon, Burma, Dr. Phillips Green works in the Rangoon General Hospital as an orthopedic surgeon. In Kathmandu, Nepal, Dr. Bethal Fleming describes her work in a hospital she helped to establish. In Tensin, Nepal, a remote Himalayan village, Dr. Friedrick operates a small hospital, examines school children outdoors, and travels by horseback to an even-more remote villages to inoculate residents against plague. In Beirut, Lebanon, the programs of the medical school of the American University of Beirut are outlined. The students are shown doing fieldwork in a Lebanese village. In Ethiopia, health centers are set up to train workers, treat patients, and eradicate mosquitoes. Dr. Arthur Curtis examines patients in an outdoor clinic. Well-drillers are shown. In Vellore, India at the Christian Medical College, Dr. Ida Scutter speaks to students, and students operate a mobile clinic. Dr. Victor Rambo treats eye diseases in eye clinics all over India. Shots include: Korean marketplace and city streets; lepers being treated; Nepalese marketplace and village; bearers carrying equipment over rough Nepalese terrain; an American psychiatric ward; an Indian village and scabies clinic; lepers exercising their hands; patients after cataract operations in an Indian clinic.
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SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:51 1 History
00:02:00 1.1 Founding
00:06:05 1.2 Expansion
00:07:34 1.3 Affiliation with SUNY
00:08:59 2 Campuses
00:09:08 2.1 Syracuse
00:15:52 2.2 Wanakena
00:16:53 2.3 Field stations and forests
00:19:02 3 Academics
00:22:52 4 Research
00:24:25 5 Campus life
00:27:42 6 Gateway Center
00:30:54 7 Athletics
00:31:04 7.1 USCAA
00:32:01 7.2 Woodsman
00:32:41 7.3 Club sports
00:33:17 7.4 Athletics history
00:33:49 8 Affiliation with Syracuse University
00:36:25 9 Traditions
00:38:02 10 Notable alumni
00:38:52 11 Environmental leadership
00:39:26 12 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
Speaking Rate: 0.7361400332708685
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is an American, specialized, doctoral-granting institution based in Syracuse, New York. It is immediately adjacent to Syracuse University, within which it was founded, and with whom it maintains a special relationship. ESF is a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. ESF also operates facilities in the Adirondack Park (including the Ranger School in Wanakena), the Thousand Islands, elsewhere in central New York, and Costa Rica. The College's curricula focus on the understanding, management and sustainability of the environment and natural resources. ESF is considered by Peterson's to be the premier college in the U.S. for the study of environmental and natural sciences, design, engineering, policy and management of natural resources and the environment. The college has expanded its initial emphasis on forestry to include professional education in environmental science, landscape architecture, environmental studies, and engineering in addition to distinguished programs in the biological and physical sciences. ESF is ranked at 43rd in the 2017 US News & World Report rankings of the top public national universities. It commemorated its centennial in 2011.