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Technology Clinic will present its mid-project report on ways to make Lafayette a more environmentally-friendly campus 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, room 104.
Tech Clinic is a hands-on course founded in 1986 that brings together students from different majors to help solve the real-world problems of a business, non-profit organization, or government body.
Over the spring semester, team members have been focusing their efforts on a plan to lower negative environmental impacts on campus. Some of the project’s goals are a reduction of greenhouse gases on campus, more sustainable infrastructure construction, reducing biomass output, and more fuel efficient practices.
The extensive report is sponsored by the Office of the President and President Daniel Weiss will be in attendance at the presentation.
The five-member team consists of Trustee Scholar Katie Hamerslag ’08 (Martinsville, N.J.), a biology major; Sara Walter ’09 (Kempton, Pa.), a history and government & law major; Felix Forster ’09 (Rostock, Germany), a mathematics-economics major; and A.B. engineering majors Matt Vanderwall ’08 (Webster, N.Y.) and Ashley Luke ’08 (Scarsdale, N.Y). Team facilitators are Dan Bauer, professor of anthropology and sociology, Lawrence Malinconico, associate professor of geology and environmental geosciences, and Will Dohe, AIA of R+D Architecture in Easton.
Recent Technology Clinic projects have resulted in plans to revive downtown Easton, a walking DVD tour of Hugh Moore Park in Easton, plans to revive the Easton and Phillipsburg riverfront area, recommendations for improving traffic on Cattell Street, and ideas for developing the North 3rd Street corridor at the foot of College Hill in Easton. Other projects include an automobile tour on CD to boost tourism and local awareness of historical assets in Nazareth and its surrounding rural municipalities, a self-guided tour and other enhancements at Bachmann Publick House in downtown Easton, and improvements in the experiences of patients at the offices of doctors within Lehigh Valley Hospital Physicians Group.