{"id":16377,"date":"2016-04-28T16:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=16377"},"modified":"2016-04-28T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:12:46","slug":"16377_art-of-sustainable-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2016\/04\/28\/16377_art-of-sustainable-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Sustainable Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A hand crank power generator has been installed on the second floor of Richardson Hall. The generator is attached to a battery pack which will\/can be eventually used to power up computers and other appliances used by students and others. This is a very small contribution to conservation and sustainability but nevertheless, it counts and makes for a great teaching moment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyone in the Math Department is encouraged to come over and put in some <em>crank time<\/em>&nbsp;towards charging the battery which requires more than 24 hours for complete charging. A sign up sheet has been placed near the instrument for students to log their names, crank time and instructors name. At least 10 minutes of use at a time is recommended, but more time is encouraged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The &quot;Art of Sustainable Science&quot; project was conducted by Mika Munakata and Ashwin Vaidya a few years ago, and was funded by the American Physical Society.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mathematical Sciences Department contributes to the ongoing earth day events on campus with a hand crank and a bicycle generator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":116377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}