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Community solutions

Strengthen the Faculty’s testbed approach for developing campus, city and community solutions

Community Solutions

  • Clean energy ventures & solutions
  • Campus as a city-scale testbed for leading-edge tech and policies

Clean energy ventures & solutions

Campus as a city-scale testbed for leading-edge tech and policies

13 Complex challenges

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Complex challenges

Tackle complex local and global challenges with an interdisciplinary and systems-based approach

Complex Challenges

  • Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs
  • Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections
  • Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems
  • Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops

Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs

Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections

Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems

Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops

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Impactful research

Advance disciplinary knowledge and the translation of research and innovation for societal impact

Impactful Research

  • Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient
  • High impact research identified through community engagement
  • Leaders in built environment adaptation

Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient

High impact research identified through community engagement

Leaders in built environment adaptation

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