Category: Sustainable Places
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Place Studies Summer Projects: Genuine Progress Indicator
This summer, Zach Moon worked on the creation of a Genuine Progress Index for Pennsylvania, the first of it’s kind. A Genuine Progress Index, or GPI for short, is a metric used to measure the health of a nations economy. While it is similar to the more commonly known GDP (Growth Domestic Product), the GDI…
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Place Studies Summer Projects: Geographic Information Systems
This summer, Alexa Gorski and Henry Stann completed archival research to create, for the first time, a map of Native American locations within a five mile corridor of Susquehanna River’s West Branch. Alexa and Henry found the locations of the sites, and created the GIS map to make finding the sites on a map more…
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Place Studies Summer Projects: An Evaluation of the 2013 ACA implemation
The ACA, or Affordable Care Act, is a new national health law that has been only implemented recently. This summer, Collin Greene and Will Rappaport focused their research on an evaluation of the ACA in the central Pennsylvania region, in hopes of exposing the glitches that will make the second year of enrollment in 2014-2015…
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Place Studies Summer Projects: Saints of Coal Township
The sisters of St. Casimir are a community of women religious, a congregation founded by Venerable Maria Kaupas in 1907. To this day they continue the mission of Mother Maria Kaupas: ministering in the United States and across the world, and their faithful involvement in education, social justice ministries, parish, and health care, with a…
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The Affordable Care Act Progress
Published Articles: CAC-Navigator Network Recommendations on Improving Enrollment Implementing the Affordable Care Act in Central Pennsylvania Students Implement the Affordable Care Act Happy Photos: