By Amber Aumiller, graduate assistant, Sustainability Office More and more we are recognizing that everything in our world is interconnected. Even our cities are increasingly managed as a network of interdependent systems that can be optimized to waste fewer of our world’s valuable resources. Considering the prediction that places 70% of the world’s population – […]
Read MoreBy Nic Apodaca, graduate assistant, Sustainability Office At the end of March, four University of Utah graduate students spent three days in Washington D.C. for the Catalyzing Advocacy for Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). At a time when the value of education and scientific […]
Read MoreImage credit: Todd Helmenstine / sciencenotes.org Why Recycling Across the Periodic Table Matters By Kate Whitbeck, Sustainability Office When the average person thinks about metal recycling the image that pops into their head is of an aluminum or tin can – a soda can or the can that beans or corn came in. They aren’t […]
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