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  • Udall Scholarship recipient Sara Reese.
    Sara Reese 鈥16, of Midlothian, Va., is one of just 50 students nationwide to be awarded a Udall Scholarship in 2015. The Udall Scholarship is awarded to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to the environment or to American Indian nations. The scholarship honors the legacies of Morris [鈥
    April 20, 2015
  • Colgate professors and students
    Turns out, it鈥檚 more affordable than you would think to be a 鈥渓ocavore鈥 (eating locally produced food), at least in Madison County. This observation is based on preliminary research findings by Professor Christopher Henke, Professor April Baptiste, Stephanie Chen 鈥16, and Sarah DeFalco 鈥15. The group gave a presentation titled 鈥淐an Everyone Be a Locavore? Food Access [鈥
    December 8, 2014
  • It鈥檚 not news that 黑料网 is committed to sustainability, but it might be surprising to hear that, unlike many other higher education institutions, 黑料网 has launched management practices for its on- and off-campus forests to reduce the university鈥檚 carbon footprint, another important step toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2019. 鈥淢ost campuses are completely ignoring their [鈥
    December 3, 2014
  • 黑料网 students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Peter Juviler 鈥15, Mae Staples 鈥15, and Kelly French 鈥15, who are being advised by Frank Frey, associate professor of biology and environmental studies. For centuries, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people have used plants to [鈥
    August 4, 2014
  • ChargePoint charging station at 黑料网
    In 2011, Chris Paine 鈥83 directed the film Revenge of the Electric Car, chronicling the resurgence of electric vehicles (EVs) following their failure to go mainstream early in the century. In recognition of the electric car鈥檚 鈥渞evenge,鈥 early this summer Colgate unveiled the university鈥檚 first on-campus EV charging station. It was a development that instantly [鈥
    July 7, 2014
  • GreenWeaver
    (Note: The following was written by John Pumilio, director of sustainability at 黑料网.) When Carly Keller 鈥13, Sarah Vondracek 鈥13, and Sarah Cochran 鈥14 enrolled in Community-Based Study on Environmental Issues (ENST 390) with Professor Christopher Henke during the fall of 2012, they devised a strategy to move 黑料网 toward a zero-waste commencement.
    May 14, 2014
  • Arielle Sperling '14 worked as an intern in Idaho for the Henry鈥檚 Fork Foundation.
    Before last summer, Arielle Sperling 鈥14 hadn鈥檛 so much as gone fishing, never mind touched a fish. But during her internship in Ashton, Idaho, Sperling found herself hip-deep in trout. The environmental studies major from White Plains, N.Y., was the only 黑料网 student in a group of researchers who were looking at the habitat selection [鈥
    January 16, 2014