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Radio Iowa: Students Urged to Donate Don't Dump
About 6,000 students who’ve been living in University of Iowa dorms are moving out this week and an ...
Daily Iowan: Tippie College of Business Holds Faculty Sustainability Summit
The 2018 Faculty Sustainability Summit hosted speakers May 10 and 11 from a variety of environmental...
UI students reimagine park experience with unique adaptation plan
Early on in the course, University of Iowa urban and regional planning professors Lucie Laurian and ...
UI Participates in RecycleMania 2018
Through recycling and composting efforts, the University of Iowa diverted 49 percent of its waste fr...
KGAN: UI graduate students look to make Iowa City park more sustainable
Graduate students from the University of Iowa are helping lead Iowa City in improving a city park—us...
KCRG: Urban and Regional Planning Students Make Park Reccomendations
A park that can take care of itself. It's an idea for a plot of land next to the Terry Trueblood Par...
Daily Iowan: Dance Marathon Plants 25 Trees on the Pentacrest
The color green has an important meaning to University of Iowa Dance Marathon, but on April 27, gree...
Daily Iowan: WorldCanvass Hosts Discussion on Environmental Policies and the Future
WorldCanvass hosted experts in climate science and the environment to discuss policies in the U.S. a...