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BMGT160: The Intentional Self

Course Description:

As you navigate adulthood, you will constantly be making decisions that impact your personal and professional well being and success. Making these life choices with intention and a perspective of your whole self will increase your life satisfaction. In this course, you will examine who have been, who you are, and who you want to become. We will be exploring the six pillars of the whole self including purpose/character, relationships, wellness, community, prosperity, and nature and creating a vision for your future self.

Mayer Mall Aerial

CPSP349T: Advanced Practicum: Service Learning; STS Infrastructure and Society Service Learning Project

Course Description:

Our lives and bodies are intertwined with science and technology. We depend on them to support how we live now and hope that new discoveries will improve our lives in the future. What can we do today, however, to bring about our ideal future?

Science, Technology and Society (STS) seeks to understand the challenges standing between the present we have and the future we want. Students explore the powerful social, ethical and political relationships that drive research and innovation, asking:

CLFS610: Natural Products Chemistry

Course Description

Foundations of natural products chemistry; how nature goes about making (biosynthesizing) these compounds and elements of enzymology and genomics relevant to production of these compounds; relevance of natural products chemistry as a driving force for drug discovery and innovation in biotechnology.

This lab has utilized the Chemstry Courtyard as a living classroom and continues to be involved in its care and maintenance, providing experietial learning opportunities for students in the Chemistry Department. 

BSCI126: Pollinators in Crisis

Bumble Bee pollinating pink flowerThis class dissects the pollinator crisis, and in the process students learn about insects, about the interaction of organisms in complex ecosystems, and about the human-nature interface. Students will work in groups that specialize in an aspect of pollinator biology and their challenges.

BMGT468V Special Topics in Management and Organization; Business Models and Methods to Affect Social Change

This class organized a two hour social venture, raising money for an organizaton. This class chose to work with food insecurity and support the Community Learning Garden by raising money for the garden and the pantry and educating people on the availability of the pantry. 

BMGT160: The Intentional Self

Course Description:

As you navigate adulthood, you will constantly be making decisions that impact your personal and professional well being and success. Making these life choices with intention and a perspective of your whole self will increase your life satisfaction. In this course, you will examine who have been, who you are, and who you want to become. We will be exploring the six pillars of the whole self including purpose/character, relationships, wellness, community, prosp

erity, and nature and creating a vision for your future self.

Academic Partnerships

Spanish-language workshop for landscape professionals at American University
Horticulturist Luis Alfonzo leads a Spanish-language workshop for landscape professionals at American University as part of an educational exchange.

The Arboretum and Botanic

Land Acknowledgement

M initial in bickThe University of Maryland has been working to recognize our past and acknowledge the role our university has played throughout its history in denying access and full participation. An important part of that work is recognizing and respecting that the Piscataway People are the traditional stewards of the lands where we work, live and learn.

Arboretum and Botanical Garden Staff

Charles R. Reuning

Associate Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer

Facilities Management

Harry A. Teabout, III

Executive Director

Building and Landscape Maintenance

William Monan

Associate Director

Landscape Services and Arboretum & Botanical Garden

Karen Petroff

Assistant Director

Arboretum/Horticultural Services

Luis Alfonzo

Horticulturist – Landscape Enhancement

Landscape Services and Arboretum & Botanical Garden

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