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Topic: Sustainability

Cross-disciplinary team will host the 2022-2023 Research Speaker Series on Energy for a Sustainable Future

Close-up of a Pennycress plant

A cross-disciplinary team consisting of Dr. Matt Aldeman, Assistant Professor of Technology, and Dr. Rebekka Darner, director of the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology and associate professor of biology education, will be hosting the 2022-2023 Research Speaker Series.

New Share Shop offers free secondhand items to students

Student organizing clothes

The Share Shop is a new resource for Illinois State University students to shop secondhand completely free of charge. This was all made possible through the hard work of the students in the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of Sustainability.

Rolling Gardens provide year-round learning experience

Student standing next to rolling garden

Several campus units collaborated to create rolling gardens that are available for checkout through the Office of Sustainability.

‘Thirsty Society’: Interdisciplinary course delves into the study of water

Photo of Dr. Eric Peterson standing on the left of Dr. Joan Brehm in a classroom.

The Center for a Sustainable Water Future was created in 2018 to fulfill three main goals: research and scholarship, civic engagement and outreach, and curriculum. Through the introduction of a new, co-taught class, the center is satisfying its curriculum goal and offering a holistic view of water’s roles across society.

A Day in the Life: Illinois State students engage to care for the environment

Three students sit behind a table set up outside with two sewing machines. Two other students stand on the other side of the table, facing those sitting down.

Sustainability is a commitment exemplified at ISU through initiatives students undertake with staff to make campus increasingly eco-friendly. The University is elevated as students gain leadership skills through civic engagement.

Protect our environment and each other by recycling medications, syringes, inhalers, and electronic vape devices at upcoming event

pile of prescription pills

Student Health Services and the Illinois State University Police Department will host Illinois State’s first Drug Takeback Day on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m.– 2 p.m. in the front circle drive of Thomas Metcalf School, 107 S. University Street (one block south of the Bone Student Center).

Two new exhibits are on view in the Milner Library Special Collections Reading Room

Exhibit with books and prints laid out along the top of a brown display case. Eight square openings below hold books, photographs, and prints.

Two new exhibits focusing on water , sustainability, and natural resources are on display in Special Collections through June.

A homegrown love for science: Graduate student researches, promotes use of cover crops

Portrait of Emily Hansen standing with her computer in the Science Laboratory Building Greenhouse.

Illinois State graduate student Emily Hansen, who is from three generations of famers, is researching the potential of pennycress as a cover crop.

Evolving land ethics talk, April 14

illustration of a barren tree on dry land next to a live tree on grass

Dr. Curt Meine will present “Land Ethics Evolving: Conservation in a Time of Rapid Social and Environmental Change” at 7:30 p.m. April 14.

Campus-Community Deliberative Dialogue March 29: Climate Choices

People conversing around a table

Join the Center for Civic Engagement and the Office of Sustainability on March 29 at 6 p.m. at the Multicultural Center for a campus and community Deliberative Dialogue! We’ll be using the NIFI Issue Guide, “Climate Choices: How should we meet the challenges of a warming planet?” The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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