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The Sustainability Symposium will highlight, connect, and amplify the sustainability research within the College of Arts and Architecture to foster collaboration with the Penn State Sustainability research community and beyond. The symposium will open with remarks from B. Stephen Carpenter II, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture, and Paul Shrivastava, Penn State’s chief sustainability officer and director of the Sustainability Institute.

Following the keynote address by Julian C. Chambliss, the symposium will feature presentations by College of Arts and Architecture faculty representing the Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design, Hamer Center for Community Design, Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, School of Visual Arts Studio for Sustainability and Social Action, Arts and Design Research Incubator, and Ecology+Design. The symposium will also feature presentations on sustainability initiatives in the College of Engineering and Smeal College of Business.