Submit your 360° stories and ideas
We’ve asked you to submit 360° stories and ideas. Here’s how John Arendt, associate director of the Environmental Management Business Institute (EMBI) sees it. Solving problems from multiple perspectives… interdisciplinary learning… key collaboration with faculty… it’s all here.
Let us help you tell your 360° experience. E-mail Sue Bodilly at bodillys@uwgb.edu with your idea for a note, feature, photo, video, etc.
360° of Learning:
Seven students, one hospital, and a productive collaboration
Left to right: Shaun Raganyi, Matthew Peter, John Arendt
Left to right: Jake Eggert, Hilary Zanoni, Mike Hastreiter (not shown, Alek Majeski)
Over three years, seven UWGB graduate and undergraduate students worked as interns on this project. The students came from various backgrounds — environmental science, environmental policy and planning, biology, and business.
They conducted research, formulated options, and managed teams that included hospital employees and outside experts from the community. They produced and presented monthly and annual reports, developed educational tools and documents for internal use, and proposed green solution recommendations for everything from reducing printing and paper costs to cutting energy consumption.
Was it successful? The work led to the implementation of several projects that resulted in annual cost-savings to Aurora BayCare of approximately $90,000. Both Aurora BayCare and the students learned the power of applying multidisciplinary perspectives to solve challenging, real-world problems.
