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Millennium Village Simulation
Millennium Village Simulation Partner: Jeffrey Sachs- The Earth Institute, SIPA
The Millennium Village Simulation is a Web-based simulation of economics and survival for one family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village. In a virtual world of extreme poverty, disease, and environmental variability, students are challenged to help a family of two survive and prosper over a fifty-year period....

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Access: Open to all
Released: March 2008

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Brownfield Action 3.0
Brownfield Action 3.0 Partner: Peter Bower- Barnard College
Brownfield Action is a central component of Professor Peter Bower's Introduction to Environmental Science Course at Barnard College. In this simulation, students are presented with maps, documents, videos, and an extensive network of scientific data to investigate the site of a suspected contaminated land site. They assume the roles of environmental consulting firms contracting with a real estate developer to study the condition of the site and report on the feasibility of commercial construction.

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Released: August 2007

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ReliefSim
ReliefSim Partner: Ronald Waldman- School of Public Health
ReliefSim is a prototype of a simulation of a humanitarian emergency scenario. Students play the role of the health relief director and have a team of people they assign to assess the situation and attempt to manage the health concerns of the crisis. This simulation prototype was designed to train...

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Access: Private
Revised: November 2006
Released: November 2002
Heart Simulator
Heart Simulator Partner: Daniel Burkhoff, Marc Dickstein- College of Physicians & Surgeons
Modeling the pressure-volume relationship, the Heart Simulator contains parameters that students manipulate to simulate conditions and pathologies useful for teaching and learning the function of the heart. It provides a continuous graphic output of the relationship between pressure and volume in the heart under varying conditions. Project revised Fall 2003....

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Released: October 2003

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OPTIMUS - Earth Science Engineering Grant
OPTIMUS - Earth Science Engineering Grant Partner: Upmanu Lall- School of Engineering and Applied Science
The Open Platform for Teaching Integrated Modeling and Urban Simulation (OPTIMUS) project was a prototype of a spatial modeling application that allowed engineering students to design and manipulate models of environmental engineering problems such as the relationship between automobile traffic congestion and pollution. The prototype was a central feature of...

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Released: September 2003
News Reporting Simulation
News Reporting Simulation Partner: John Pavlik, Sig Gissler- School of Journalism
Using the News Reporting Simulation (NewsSim), journalism students assume the roles of reporters covering a fire story in a fictitious small city. Students practice their newsgathering skills, interviewing techniques, and writing in a controlled digital environment that approximates some of the conditions found in the real world....

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Released: September 2001

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Brownfield Action
Brownfield Action Partner: Peter Bower- Barnard College
The Brownfield Action simulation engages students in an environmental investigation of a suspected contaminated land site. An adaptation of a paper-based version of the study the professor had used for several years, the project is ideally suited for a digital environment in which students seamlessly gather, store and manipulate data....

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Released: September 2001
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