This week, we are featuring intern Jacob Burch. (more…)
Meet the Interns: Nick Jenshak
This week, we are featuring intern Nick Jenshak. (more…)
Meet the Interns: MacKenzie Whitener
This week, we are featuring intern MacKenzie Whitener. (more…)
Meet the Interns: Doaris Medina
This week, we are featuring intern Doaris Medina. (more…)
Meet the Interns: Nouran Amin
CEES is lucky to have several undergraduate interns on staff. Over the last couple of years, CEES interns have been working hard creating and executing science lessons to at-risk youth in the Indianapolis area. Through programming at the Felege Hiwot Center, to working in Indianapolis Public Schools 51 and 69, to Service Learning at IUPUI, the interns have been able to gain a unique, hands-on experience with environmental science in an outdoor classroom setting. (more…)
New CEES Location
CEES has recently relocated from the IUETC building to the BRTC building (right off of 16th St.) on IUPUI’s campus. In our new location, we have more spacious offices for our directors and assistants, and a new DSE office. We have also been given a new CEES lab that has newer, updated equipment, and much more room to conduct research. (more…)
Celebrate Science
On Saturday October 3rd, the annual Celebrate Science event took place at the Blue Ribbon Pavilion in the Indiana State Fairgrounds. A day long science exhibition that gathered all of Indiana’s science based organizations, companies, educational departments, institutions, and even families to share their area of science. Exhibits introduced aspiring young scientists to a wide spectrum of scientific fields ranging from chemical bonding, mechanics, to scaly creatures. (more…)
The White River Festival
CEES participated in the annual White River Festival on September 12th showcasing its exhibit on rivers and sedimentation. The exhibit was a river model made to mimic river characteristics and Earth’s density. The educational experience took all day long and gave an opportunity for children and their parents to build dams and witness how it’s consumed by the river. It was a day filled with fun, excitement, and a valuable lesson learned that water always wins! (more…)
EPA Grant
For the past two years, Dr. Brian Plankis and Dr. Pamela Martin have been working on elementary after school science clubs. These science clubs are designed to increase science interest in younger students which could in turn have an effect on their college and career path choices.
The clubs’ goals are to improve interest in the environment and sustainability. Also, there is an emphasis on more hands-on science learning versus the traditional worksheet method. Teaching in the context of the environment lends itself easily to this style. The implementation of these after school science clubs has been successful thus far at three Indianapolis schools: Paramount, SENSE, and Joyce Kilmer Elementary. The overarching goals are to make the clubs locally and culturally relevant as well as relatable to the children’s everyday lives. (more…)
Lilly Arbor Project Update
Last week students, friends of CEES and concerned citizens gathered for a tour of the Lilly ARBOR project followed by a screening of Dam Nation hosted by the Student Sustainability Council. During our tour, we were able to look at the project with fresh eyes and noticed it had been some time since data had been collected at the site. (more…)