This past semester, Professor Monica Tetzlaff has guided her First Year Seminar students through a variety of community service projects in collaboration with local parks. Although this semester looked a little different due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tetzlaff said “it was a lesson of needing to adjust.” To allow her students to apply their study… Read more »
Students in the Master of Liberal Studies Program put sustainability into action through SUST-S610, Measuring Sustainability, taught by Krista Bailey. The course is designed to give the students the skills to “track sustainability in whatever way, shape, or form that it is being implemented.” The course begins by looking at the different tools for measuring… Read more »
Students in Dr. Terri Hebert’s Science in the Elementary School course are getting a hands-on, engaged approach to science. Over the years, Dr. Hebert has created connections with several local organizations to build a partnership that both fosters the learning of our future teachers, and fills the needs for our community organizations. It all started… Read more »
Eighty people came out to LangLab on November 21 to participate in the last Pop-Up University lecture of the fall semester. Krista Bailey, Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future, helped us to understand the connection between climate change, conflict, poverty, and food waste. All four of these topics are on the list of the… Read more »
On September 6th, Dr. Deb Marr and her BIOL-L474 class took part in a Fish Diversity Lab. For this project, Dr. Marr partners with Daragh Deegan, a Fisheries Biologist with the Elkhart Public Works Office. This particular lab takes place in the St. Joseph River between the IU South Bend Pedestrian Bridge and the Twyckenham… Read more »