| 8:30 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | ||
| Welcome | Dr. Patricia Clubb | ||
| Opening Remarks | Provost Steven Leslie | ||
| President's Sustainability Committee Report | Jim Walker | ||
| 9:00 AM | Curricula and Teaching | ||
| Ethics and Sustainability: New Initiatives in Ethics Education at UT Austin | Jess Miner (Staff) | ||
| Teaching GeoDesign: A Campus-Wide Initiative | Ming-Chun Lee (Faculty) | ||
| Sustainability and McCombs MBAs | John Doggett (Faculty) | ||
| Teaching Sustainability: Lessons in Time, Space and Complexity | Gloria Lee (Faculty) | ||
| A Vision for UT Austin: Integrating Sustainability into Higher Education | Michael Webber (Faculty) | ||
| Service Learning for Sustainability | Scott Swearingen (Faculty) | ||
| 15 Minute Q & A | |||
| 10 Minute Break | |||
| 10:30 AM | Global Impacts | ||
| Studio Africa: A UT Austin School of Architecture Design Studio for Developing Sustainable Schools in Africa | Michael Garrison (Faculty) | ||
| Environmentally Sustainable Initiatives: Ghana as a Case Study | Natasha Sharma (Student) | ||
| Are We Killing the Rain? Meditations on the Water Cycle* | Jane Cohen (Faculty) | ||
| Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on High Mountain Glacial Watersheds in the Andes and Himalayas | Rachel Chisolm (Student) | ||
| Sustainable Development in Haiti: Challenges, Lessons, and Hope | Justin Baker, Katrin Greisberger, Danny Guerra, Sofia Leon, and Julia O'Rourke (Students) | ||
| 15 Minute Q & A | |||
| 11:45 AM | Lunch | ||
| 12:40 PM | Operations & Resource Management | ||
| Leveraging Social Norms Marketing and Socially Responsible Investment Funds to Fuel Energy Conservation at The University of Texas at Austin | Liv Isham, Jay Kleberg, Spencer Jones, Caroline Kolb, Lara Cottingham (Students) | ||
| Implementation of a Green Laboratory Program | Dennis Nolan (Staff) | ||
| Making Our Urban Forest More Sustainable | Jim Carse (Staff) | ||
| 20/20 Vision: Energy and Resource Conservation at UT Austin | Mike Frisch (Staff) | ||
| The New Wave: Irrigation Sustainability | Markus Hogue (Staff) | ||
| 15 Minute Q & A | |||
| 10 Minute Break | |||
| 2:00 PM | Campus Master Plan | ||
| An Overview: The Campus Master Plan | David Rea (Staff) | ||
| Planning for the Future: Energy and Resource Conservation* | Steve Kraal (Staff) | ||
| Transporation and Mobility Across Campus* | Bobby Stone (Staff) | ||
| A History of Planning at UT Austin* | Larry Speck (Faculty) | ||
| A Key Component: Sustainability in the Campus Master Plan | Jim Walker (Staff) | ||
| 15 Minute Q & A | |||
| 10 Minute Break | |||
| 3:30 PM | Initiatives and Research | ||
| The Green Fee: Promoting and Facilitating Campus Sustainability Research and Development Through Projects Led by Students, Faculty, and Staff | Sam Hermitte and Collin Poirot (Students) | ||
| Responses of Gambusia affinis to Changes in Hydrologic Regimes in Waller Creek, Texas | Ben Bonney (Student) | ||
| Going Solar: Consumer Investment Behavior for Residential Photovoltaic Installations | Ben Sigrin (Student) | ||
| Sustainable Employees: A Wellness and Green Partnership | Adrienne Howarth-Moore (Staff) | ||
| The Opportunity to Cycle: The UT Safe Cycling Campaign | Kate Bedford (Student) | ||
| 15 Minute Q & A | |||
| 4:35 PM | Wrap Up Discussion | ||
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn | ||