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Benefits of nature journaling – winter 2024/2025

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By Mara Scallon, communications graduate assistant in the Sustainability Office Hello again, friends. As you may have noticed, a few of my posts here have featured an image of a page from my trusty journal, which I have been dragging to my creek-side haunt when I visit. With the many notebooks cluttering up my backpack, […]

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Student entrepreneurs shine at small business fair

By Ava Curtis On Wednesday, November 20, the Sustainability Office and Lassonde Studios brought fourteen student vendors together for the first-ever campus small business fair. The main lobby of Lassonde Studios was transformed into a vibrant marketplace with two rows of tables sporting multicolored tablecloths lining the cement walls of the building and live piano […]

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SCIF Project Report – Green Infrastructure Pollinator Garden: Making the most of campus space

Project Green Infrastructure Pollinator Garden, was the result of a collaboration between Professors Sarah Hinners and Amy Sibul as well as the then student leader of the University Beekeeping Association, Mason Kreidler to prevent flooding in the Architecture Building through the use of green infrastructure while creating a pollinator friendly landscape. 

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SCIF Project Report – Community-Based Educational Outreach to Address Air Pollution

Project Community-Based Educational Outreach to Address Air Pollution was created by Casey Mullen to increase at-home air sensors in houses in high-impact communities. The goal of her project was to address the social inequities in the distribution of nongovernmental air quality sensors and educate communities on local air quality issues. 

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SCIF Project Report – Project Art Heals: Illustrating healing through upcycled medical waste

Project Art Heals, headed by Emily Hagn, used visual art as a symbol of therapeutic healing medical burnout and loss throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, a mural currently displayed at the U of U Hospital, used medical waste, vaccination vials and mementos from patients, workers and individuals involved in or lost during the pandemic in an attempt to acknowledge health disparities that were amplified during that time. These disparities include income in different areas, access to space that enabled for social distancing, access to vaccines, and ability to take time off work to access health ca

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