Mission and goals
Long-term goals:
1. To develop urban agriculture-based activities for undergraduate biology classrooms that engages students in the process of science and produce immediate and tangible societal benefits.
2. To develop campus gardens and other urban agricultural systems as ecological laboratories to train the next generation of scientists in the application of ecological principles.
3. To assess the impact of training undergraduate biologists through the incorporation of urban agriculture-based activities, and to disseminate these activities to other institutions.
Short-term goals:
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To conduct senior personnel site visits/retreats with participating institutions to understand efforts at each institution’s efforts to develop campus and community research gardens.
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To develop communication tools such as presentations, publications, and a project web site, to introduce the campus research garden as a tool for biology education delivery to a broader audience to build our network.
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To develop preliminary curricula focused on integrating campus research gardens into coursework.
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To build a toolkit of quantitative assessments to measure progress toward both broad network goals (above) and the impact of campus garden curricula on biology education.
Principal Investigators
​Adam Kay
University of St. Thomas
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Gaston "Chip" Small
University of St. Thomas
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Eric Chapman
Shed Initiative
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Principal Investigators
​Adam Kay
University of St. Thomas
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Gaston "Chip" Small
University of St. Thomas
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Eric Chapman
Shed Initiative
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Participating Sites
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University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, MN
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University of San Diego
San Diego, CA
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Miami Dade College
Miami, FL
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Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
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