Seong-Gin Moon

240C DeVos Center
(616) 331-6681
MoonS@gvsu.edu

Seong-Gin Moon received his doctorate from the University of Colorado at Denver. He also has a Master of Public Affairs and Master of Science in Environmental Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Agriculture in Landscape Architecture from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Prior to coming to GVSU, he was a lecturer and international student director at the University of Colorado at Denver. His primary research interest is in assessment of public-private collaboration in areas such as environmental protection and sustainable development.

• To relax, I like to ... go hiking and camping.
• The book I am currently recommending to my friends is ..." The Call by Os Guinness.
• The best advice I ever got was ... be persistent and focused. You will be successful at whatever you do!
• My favorite place in the world is ... Vancouver; Denver; anywhere there are mountains, lakes and rivers.
• People are often surprised to find out that I ... majored in landscape architecture for my undergraduate and lived and traveled in several countries: Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.
• My favorite food is ... seafood spaghetti.
• My best advise to students is ... to meet people from different parts of the world and if you can, to go abroad.
• I predict that ten years from now ... I will be running a marathon in just under three hours.
• When I first came to Grand Rapids, I was surprised by ... how green the places are.