Events

2022 SDG Awareness Week

April 1 to April 30, 2022

The School of Global Studies and Partnerships officially adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for OSU’s global engagement in 2020. Since then, SGSP has been engaging different units on campus to promote awareness of the SDGs on campus and in the community. Last year, SGSP coordinated the first SDGs awareness week in April 2021 with six events, in partnership with OSU Student Government Association, Spears School of Business and Edmon Low Library.

This year, in conjunction of the celebration of Earth Month, we continue to collaborate with departments and units on campus, as well as our global partners to raise awareness. The purpose of this month long celebrate is to raise SDG awareness on campus, share our progress locally and globally, and advance our actions through partnerships. We will feature a wide array of programs to highlight initiatives and efforts on campus, in our local community and through our global partnerships.

• Week 1

  Date: April 4

  Event: SDG Flag and social media challenges on SDG

   

  Follow School of Global Studies and Partnerships for more information regarding our givaway!

  @okstate_sgsp

   

  Location: Wes Watkins Center & social media platform

  #SDG17

   

  Date: April 8, 4:00 PM

  Event: Pete’s Pantry opening

   

  Location: Student Union Basement

  #SDG1 #SDG2 #SDG 17

• Week 2

  Date: April 12, 12:00 pm

  Webinar: The role of universities in the era of SDGs: Overview of THE Impact Rankings.

  Presenter: Mr. Eric Ablett, Times Higher Education

  To register for the event click here to register.

  Location: Zoom

  #SDG17

   

  Date: April 13, 1:30 pm

  Event: Design Disciplines in Promoting Sustainable Development Goals - Global and Local Perspectives

   

  Panelist: Prof Michael Holmes, Prof Cheryl Mihalko, Prof Qing Luo and Dr. Bo Zhang,
  Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

  Professor Marcos Rivarola and Professor Rafael Vergara Rebosio, School of Architecture, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Peru

   

  Location: Student Union 408 Case Study 1

  #SDG11 #SDG15 #SDG17

       

• Week 3

  Date: April 19, 12:00 pm

  Webinar: Identifying and Labeling Scholarly Work with Sustainable Development Goals

   

  Description: The UN Sustainable Development Goals are increasingly being used as a framework to categorize and analyze scholarship such as research articles. Commercial entities such as RELX (Elsevier) and Digital Science are mapping SDG research and these efforts have an effect on research visibility, university ranking programs, and can tie directly to OSU’s land-grant mission and opportunities such as the APLU Public Impact Research initiative.  This session will help participants recognize how research is being categorized by SDG, how to find SDG-related research, and generate a plan for describing and highlighting their own work.  

   

  Presenter: Matt Upson and Clarke Lakovakis, Edmon Low Library

   

  To register click here.

  Location: Zoom

  #SDG4 #SDG17

   

  Date: April 21, 2:00 pm

  Webinar: Teaching "Do Good, Do Well" Leadership to Our Students

   

  Description: Webinar for faculty to learn more about incorporating the Aim2Flourish program in the classroom. Aim2Flourish is an experiential, transformative student experience. Students experience “Do Good, Do Well” leadership first-hand through conversations with business leaders and publishing their innovation stories on AIM2Flourish.com.

  This webinar will review the overall Aim2Flourish program and the many resources for professors and students. Participants will see examples, hear from faculty using the assignment and learn about the impact from students.

   

  Presenters:

  Megan Buchter, Fowler Center Director, Case Western Reserve University

  George Dionne, AIM2Flourish Ambassador

  Professor Crishelen Kurezyn Diaz, Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Mexico

  Moderator: Dr. Rebecca Eastham, Director of Spears Center for Business and Social Impact

   

  To register click here.

  Location: Zoom

  #SDG1 #SDG8 #SDG9 #SDG17

• Week 4

  Date: April 27

  Event: THE Impact Rankings 2022 Release

   

  Date: April 28, 9:30 AM

  Event: 2022 Women for OSU Symposium

  Keynote Speaker: Lauren Bush Lauren: FEED Projects

   

  *Ticket for this event must be purchased online at the OSU Foundation website.

  Location: Gallagher-Iba Arena

  #SDG1 #SDG2 #SDG10 #SDG17

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