STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES: THE MITCHELL CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS AS AN INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT

As the magnitude, complexity, and urgency of many sustainability problems increase, there is a growing need for universities to contribute more effectively to problem solving.Drawing upon prior research on social-ecological systems, knowledge-action connections, and organizational innovation, we developed an integrated conceptual framework for stre

To assess the effects of long-term fertilization on soil available micronutrients in farmland, this study examined diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) extractable iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in surface soil with monoculture of corn (Zea mays L.) with a 30-year filed fertilization experiment established in Northeast C

Art therapy is the successor of “psychological Modernism”, which during the late 19th and early 20th centuries included medical psychology as well as theories and practices related to more speculative practices of plastic jigger hypnosis, somnambulism, interpretation of dreams, automatic writing and spiritualism.Art therapy emerged in t

Cannabis (marijuana) has been known to humans for thousands of years but its neurophysiological effects were sparsely understood until recently.Preclinical and clinical studies in the past two decades have indisputably supported the clinical proposition that the endocannabinoid system plays an important role in the etiopathogeneses of many neuropsy