Ninety-seven students enrolled in the upper-division Speech, Language, and Hearing Science (SLHS) 580 course taught by Dr. Henrike Blumenfeld, titled “Communication Processes and Aging,” offered service-based work to support the staff at the Kimball Senior Center and the George H. Waters Nutrition Center. This work also benefitted the students by engaging them in real-world experiences. […]
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SDSU students conducted a Sustainability Gap (SGAP) Assessment report to identify improvement strategies for the “assessed” establishments in the City of National City. The assessed establishments where the Best Western Plus Marina Gateway Hotel, Goodies Bar & Grill, The Pier 32 Marina, and Ethnic Deli and Café. The overall goal of this Sustainability Assessment assignment […]
This report is an overview of how a supply chain operates in a construction project, how it influences a construction setting, and its contribution to the understanding of any construction project. The chosen case study is the source selection process for the collaborative design-build Mission Valley Stadium project. The paper will map the flow of […]
The climate change mitigation strategies outlined in this report were created through the partnership between National City and the SDSU Sage Project during the fall of 2014. Graduate students in the Public Health 700D course titled “Global Climate Change,” taught by Professor Zohir Chowdhury, elected one of two project options: designing a pedestrian and bicycle […]
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Four air quality course projects were completed by San Diego State University (SDSU) graduate students in collaboration with National City and the Sage Project in winter 2015. The intent of this partnership was to achieve the city’s goal to quantify fine particulate matter air pollution concentrations in residential, commercial, and industrial areas near roadways/freeways in […]
The research in this report was created through a partnership between the City of Lemon Grove and the Sage Project at San Diego State University during the spring of 2017. This research was completed by students in an upper division Public Administration class, titled Nonprofit Organizations and Government. This work sought to understand how the […]
Five teams of graduate students in the Urban Design and Land Use Planning Studio class at San Diego State University prepared design concepts for various project sites around National City, California. In this project, students and faculty collaborated with city representatives to identify core areas of potential “smart growth” development opportunities within National City. The […]
This report details the findings of research commissioned by the City of San Diego and carried out by student-researchers at San Diego State University on the issue of homelessness in downtown San Diego. We provide a snapshot of the perceptions of the homeless residents of the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego in Spring […]
The City of Lemon Grove has collaborated with the Sage Project and San Diego State University to develop and introduce a community garden and evaluate the current city parks to determine what can be achieved to further benefit and serve the residents of Lemon Grove. This comprehensive report addresses these main objectives and offers recommendations […]
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Recent satellite and ground-based data have indicated that Earth’s climate is changing at an alarmingly fast rate as the mean global temperature continues to rise. This effect is visible around the world and is already beginning to threaten both society and the environment (Kitchen, 2014). Our failure to limit the emissions of heat-trapping green-house gases […]