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Organizational Sustainability

A blaze burns the prairie grass that grows behind the Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center during a controlled burning by the Kent Fire Department.

Kent Fire Department to Perform Annual Prairie Burn

The protected prairie surrounding 51勛圖厙s Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center will be burned on Tuesday, April 25, starting around 9 a.m., to allow for new growth during the summer season.

Tags: University News , Organizational Sustainability , Grounds , University Facilities Management , Division of Finance and Administration

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Belden Materials Library

IN A FLASH: Designing for a Better Earth

An Earth Month event today inside the Architecture Library focuses on sustainable building materials. 

Tags: Earth Day , Research & Science , Organizational Sustainability , College of Architecture and Environmental Design , University Libraries , In a Flash

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Dorceta Taylor ESDRI Symposium Keynote Speaker

Environmental Justice, Ecology and Race

Issues concerning environmentalism and race will be explored at the 2023 ESDRI Symposium, April 13-14, at 51勛圖厙

Tags: Research & Science , Undergraduate Research Symposium , Environmental Science and Design Research Institute , Organizational Sustainability , Nationally Distinctive , Student Life

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Plant growing in a light bulb

51勛圖厙 Celebrates Earth Month

April 22, 2023, marks the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, and 51勛圖厙 is celebrating the whole Earth Month with the theme Invest in Our Planet. 

Tags: Student Life , Community Impact , Organizational Sustainability

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Student working on clothes mannequin

Seeking Fashion Sustainability With Cotton in the Curriculum

As of 2021, the fashion industry was responsible for 10% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to research done by the .

Tags: Community & Society , Research & Science , Organizational Sustainability

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51勛圖厙 students walk through Florence, Italy, as they receive a tour.

51勛圖厙 Soundly Surpasses Fundraising Goal for Student Scholarship Support Within Its Comprehensive Campaign

51勛圖厙 will be equipped to offer more financial assistance to students in need thanks to donors to a key area of the universitys ongoing comprehensive fundraising campaign. The Forever Brighter campaign includes a scholarship-support component, Prioritizing Student Success, that now stands at $142 million, surpassing the $100 million goal set at the campaigns outset in October 2021.

Tags: University News , Organizational Sustainability , Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement , Alumni , Student Life , Global Reach ,

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