This summer, 11 Penn State students across 5 different colleges are spending the summer in Pittsburgh exploring urban sustainability and working with a community partner through the City Semester Pittsburgh program. Each student is placed with a partner for an internship based on their interests, strengths, and goals. Let’s check in with one of the students, Lydia Neuhauser.
Students from South West College, Northern Ireland, joined Penn State students in Pittsburgh to learn best practices in energy efficient design during the High-Performance Building Summer Camp, a joint initiative between the Penn State Center Pittsburgh, Penn State-led Global Building Network (GBN), South West College and the Green Building Alliance in Pittsburgh.
Our team is in the middle of a busy summer packed with exciting partnerships and immersive learning! Check out some of the current and upcoming programs and initiatives at the Center that aim to support healthy, sustainable, innovative, and equitable communities.
Lauren is currently a community planner at the Union County Office of Planning and Economic Development in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Her work covers various topics including transportation, land use, sustainability, and long-range planning.
Charlotte participated in City Semester during the summer of 2021 and is currently a landscape architectural designer at Bernardon, a multidisciplinary firm in Philadelphia, PA.
Earth Day comes around every April, but caring for the planet is a yearlong effort requiring all of us to do our part. The theme for Earth Day this year is Invest in our Planet, and it calls for us to work together and take action to “preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods.”
Riley is a City Semester alum and is now a graduate student and graduate research assistant at University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS).
For several years, Pittsburgh was named one of the most livable cities in the country by the Economist Intelligence Unit, based on its education, culture, and health care systems. But Pittsburgh still suffers from major shortcomings when it comes to its environmental health.
The National Green Infrastructure Certification Program (NGICP) is a 35-hour series presented in the spring and fall at the Penn State Center Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.
Anthony was one of two students in our very first City Semester cohort in fall 2017 and currently serves as community liaison, Mayor’s Office of Community Relations and Services at the Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser.