EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
LIVING TOGETHER: INVESTING IN OUR PLANET
Natural Sciences Department
April 11 – 14, 2022
International Earth Day offers an opportunity to raise global public awareness of the challenges to the well-being of our planet and all the life it supports. The Natural Sciences Department invites the Hostos College community to take collective responsibility to promote harmony with nature and the Earth. It is time to move beyond the destructive way of the past, and apply an ethical perspective in our efforts to achieve balance among the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present and future generations of humanity. This celebration is also an opportunity to find common solutions to protect natural habitats and their animals, plants, insects, and microorganisms, as well as to prevent the Sixth Mass Extinction where the survival of the human species is itself in peril.
Keynote Speaker
The Future of Sustainable Building in The Bronx Heather McKinstry is an Associate at Dattner Architects. She believes that...
Schedule
Sustainability and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Native America
Ongoing:
Prof. Marcella Bencivenni
How Climate Change Can Expose Us To Dormant Microbes
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM:
Prof. Soheli Chowdhury, Ms. Veronica Ellis
Exploring Walt Whitman & Wendell Berry’s Poems Celebrating Nature
11:00 AM –12:15 PM;
12:30 PM – 01:45 PM;
05:30 PM – 06:45 PM:
Prof. Elyse Zucker
The effect of the environment on physical activity. Class discussion.
08:30 AM – 09:30 AM:
Prof. Vyacheslav Dushenkov
Opening ceremony
09:30–11:00 AM:
Prof. Flor Henderson, Prof. Van Chanh Phan, Prof. Vyacheslav Dushenkov
Second Edition of the Science-Art Contest: “Landscapes: Problems and Solutions”
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM:
Prof. Carmen Inda
Aeroponic Lab Tours
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM;
02:00 PM – 04:00 PM:
Prof. Flor Henderson & Ms. Karin Contreras
Sustainability with SolidWorks
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM:
Prof. Diandra Jugmohan, Prof. Briseida Cortez–Rodriguez, Prof. Moise Koffi
The STEM Olympiad
03:00 PM – 4:30 PM:
Professors Yoel Rodríguez, Anna Ivanova, Clara Nieto–Wire & Lauren Wolf
Past, Present and Future of Floristics (Sandra Knapp)
4:00 PM: 5:00 PM:
Prof. Vyacheslav Dushenkov
What would be our next step in Human Evolution?
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM:
Prof. Amanda Bernal Carlo
GSACS Scholars Student Presentation and COIL@Hostos QandA
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM:
Prof. Anna Ivanova
Conversation with Advanced Science and Engineering Students
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM:
Prof. Yoel Rodríguez & Prof. Karla Contreras
Plastics: Can microbes be part of the solution?
05:30 PM – 06:00 PM:
Prof. Julie Trachman
Invited Speaker presentation: “Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution” Martha Muñoz, PhD. Yale University
9:30 AM –10:30 AM:
Prof. Carmen Inda
Chemistry in Everyday Life. Students’ presentations
11:00 AM –12:40 AM:
Prof. Sharmila Shakya
Phytoremediation – A Sustainable Approach to Solve Water Pollution. Students’ Presentations.
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM:
Prof. Anna Ivanova & Prof. Flor Henderson
Human Health and the Environment. Class discussion.
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM:
Prof. Vyacheslav Dushenkov
Biodiversity on the planet Earth. Students’ presentations.
05:30 PM – 06:30 PM:
Prof. Vladimir Ovtcharenko
Earth Day Science Trivia
01:00 PM – 02:00 PM:
Prof. Anna Ivanova & Prof. Allison Franzese
Environmental Degradation & Cardiovascular/Neurological Well-being
03:30 PM – 04:30 PM:
Prof. Zvi Ostrin
Plastics: Can microbes be part of the solution?
05:30 PM – 06:00 PM:
Prof. Julie Trachman
Earth Week Committee
Prof. Flor Henderson, Co-Chair
Prof. Van Chanh Phan, Co-Chair
Prof. Vyacheslav Dushenkov, Co-Chair
