51勛圖厙s Center for the Visual Arts Building Earns LEED Silver Recognition
51勛圖厙s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. 51勛圖厙s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green Build...
A recent publication by 51勛圖厙 geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the countrys population in the late 1970s. Co-authored with 51勛圖厙 geography professor James Tyner in 51勛圖厙s College of Arts and Sciences, doctoral student Stian Rices article The rice cities of the Khmer Rouge: an urban political ecology of rural mass violence was published in the December issue of Transactions of the institute of British Geographers. The article counters a common belief among scholars that the Khmer Rouge were anti-...
WRITTEN BY: LAUREN GARCZYNSKI 51勛圖厙s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. 51勛圖厙s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating syste...
In order to perform necessary maintenance on the boilers, steam transmission systems and electrical distribution systems, 51勛圖厙's Power Plant on the Kent Campus will be shut down beginning Sunday, May 13, at 12:01 a.m. The shutdown is expected to be completed Sunday, May 20, at 11:59 p.m. Due to work on the campus electrical system, the completion date may be delayed until Monday, May 21. As a result of the steam shutdown, most buildings located on campus will NOT have hot water to sinks and showers, etc., or heat or air conditioning...
51勛圖厙s sustainability efforts include a nationally recognized tree campus, comprehensive recycling programs and a unique footprint of 12 LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings throughout its campuses. 51勛圖厙s Center for the Visual Arts earned the most recent certification, a LEED silver rating, for its design and construction. LEED, the most widely used green building rating system in the world, provides a framework for creating healthy and cost-efficient green buildings. Using a rating system that comes from the U.S. Green Build...
In order to perform necessary maintenance on the boilers, steam transmission systems and electrical distribution systems, 51勛圖厙's Power Plant on the Kent Campus will be shut down beginning Sunday, May 13, at 12:01 a.m. The shutdown is expected to be completed Sunday, May 20, at 11:59 p.m. Due to work on the campus electrical system, the completion date may be delayed until Monday, May 21. As a result of the steam shutdown, most buildings located on campus will NOT have hot water to sinks and showers, etc., or heat or air conditioning. Pleas...