{"id":62540,"date":"2011-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-project-asks-campus-to-ditch-bottled-water\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-project-asks-campus-to-ditch-bottled-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/uri-student-project-asks-campus-to-ditch-bottled-water\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student project asks campus to ditch bottled water"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tEffort part of Grand Challenge course on global public health<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 29, 2011 \u2013 Individuals who drink bottled water products might want to hear what 溏心vlog免费B站 freshman Bill Law and his classmates have to say.<\/p>\n


\n\tThat\u2019s because the students have learned that the bottled water process may sometimes allow companies to inappropriately acquire and market this vital resource worldwide. Their product is then packaged, transported and sold at a profit.<\/p>\n


\n\tLaw, a resident of Charlestown, and his classmates are enrolled in one of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Grand Challenge classes, entitled \u201cBe the Solution for Global Public Health Problems.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nInstituted last year, the 30 interdisciplinary Grand Challenge courses have small enrollments and are taught by full-time faculty members. They focus on major global challenges, such as poverty, diversity, hunger and climate change, and they have intriguing titles like \u201cMedia and Race Relations,\u201d \u201cThe Weight is Over,\u201d \u201cThe Future of Families,\u201d \u201cHeavy Metal,\u201d and \u201cEarth Gone Mad?\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tOne group in this fall\u2019s global public health honors course is focusing on water-borne diseases and their relationship to water supply depletion. To call attention to the problem in small ways, the students will hold a water bottle sale to encourage 溏心vlog免费B站 community members to fill the bottles with tap water and reuse them.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cThe grand challenge classes are designed specifically to engage first-year students in learning about big issues in the world and then proposing viable and achievable solutions,\u201d said Don DeHayes, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cOur assessment of student engagement and learning from these courses has indeed shown that addressing these important and relevant topics seems to ignite student enthusiasm for both learning and action. The passion, efforts, and outreach demonstrated by Bill (Law) and his classmates are testimony to the important contributions 溏心vlog免费B站 students make on a regular basis to improving society as well as to their own development. We are very proud of our students and the faculty who worked so hard to engage with them in these special courses.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe are looking at water-borne illnesses and wondering how we could help,\u201d Law said. \u201cThrough our reusable water bottle drive, we are trying to show how much water we use and how our waste contributes to water depletion.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tEach bottle is blue and emblazoned with the Rhody Ram logo, and costs $10. They will be sold at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Holiday Mini Mall in the Memorial Union, 50 Lower College Road, Dec. 7 and 8, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Money raised will be donated to water.org, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries.