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- Intro to Sustainability Class Offered Online This Fall
- College of Public Health Earns LEED Platinum
- Iowa City's Bicycle Friendly Community Rating Upgraded To Silver
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- Video: UI's LEED Platinum Information Technology Facility
- Becoming green: small practices can make a big impact
- Little Villiage Gives Progress Report on University of Iowa’s 2020 Vision
- Biomass: From Plant to Power Video
- Daily Iowan: UI adds two new bicycle-repair stations
- Daily Iowan: Bike Commuter Challenge
- Daily Iowan: Greeks Go Green
- ECO Iowa City Begins
- Daily Iowan:Recyclemania contest wraps up
- Daily Iowan: UI may eliminate paper directory
- Daily Iowan: College of Engineering adds wind energy certificate
- New Way of Thinking About Landfill Waste Reduction Emerging in Iowa
- Video: University of Iowa LEED Certification
- University of Iowa Takes Part in RecycleMania Competition
- Video: Conifer Removal Project
- The Bike Bowl: College Towns Surge Ahead in Bike Commuting
- Solar Electric Vehicle Charging Station featured
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- Christiansen discusses sustainability at the UI on City Channel 4
- Iowa Now: The laws of global warming
- Video: Biomass Partnership Project Update
- Jerry Schnoor reflects on United Nations Climate Change Conference
- Daily Iowan: UISG backs creation of sustainability committee
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- Daily Iowan: New technology in Hillcrest dining hall increases sustainability
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- Iowa Now: A Platinum Record
- New video: single stream recycling
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- Beenk featured in Iowa Alumni Magazine
- UI engineers employ environmental ingenuity to reduce water pollution
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- Fall 2012 Class: Principles of Historic Preservation
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- Daily Iowan: UI professor works with students to solve energy problems
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- Wind energy boost for state universities
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- Daily Iowan: UI collaborating with city on new car-sharing service
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- Creative Writing for the Ecologically Aware
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- University of Iowa biomass boiler testing starts
- Furniture Project changes management, location, hours
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- Iowa PSR 2012 Calendars now available
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- Nonprofit organization pushes ´Green Tuesday´
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- Researchers receive $1 million NSF grant for agricultural watershed study
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- Organic Waste, Paper and Plastic are the Top Three Components in Iowa Trashcans
- IC Press-Citizen: UI officials tout renewable energy
- Daily Iowan: $40K UI initiative cleans rain water
- Daily Iowan: UI student group looks to eliminate coal
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- Carmichael leads new EPA study on black carbon's climate and air quality effects
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- NSF invests $20 million in Iowa's renewable energy and energy efficiency research
- Earth Scholars: The Environmental Sciences Program Explores the Complexites of Global Systems
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- Iowa City, UI and Extend the Dream Foundation partner to improve game day trash cleanup
- UI to phase in single-stream recycling on campus
- Students use summer to tackle problems
- Biomass Boiler Installed at UI Research Park
- UChoose Makes Eating Healthy Easy on Campus
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- UI School of Urban and Regional Planning partnering with Dubuque on sustainability initiative
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- UI environmental engineering students visit the Gulf
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- The Spectator features UI Facilities Management Energy Control Center
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UI environmental engineering students visit the Gulf
June 29, 2010
JUNE 29, 2010 from KCRG-TV and Cedar Rapids Gazette
Two University of Iowa students curious about how the Gulf Coast oil spill is affecting plant life are eagerly working to figure out a way to help the plants survive the exposure to oil.
We're going to try and find a way to help Mother Nature deal with the disaster,” said Aaron Gwinnup, an environmental engineering graduate student from Oxford.
Gwinnup and undergraduate mechanical engineering student Elliott Beenk spent five days in the Gulf Coast region earlier this month searching for oil covered plants.
“I expected the oil to be pretty much everywhere [and] to come back covered in oil” said Beenk, 20, of DeWitt. “[I expected] to have no problem finding it but we had a little bit different experience.”
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Images from the trip, left to right: Elliott Beenk, Aaron Gwinnup, Dr. Eugene Turner and Aaron Gwinnup
Read the complete story posting on the UI Engineering website...
