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From left, zero waste manager Caroline Boone and Luke Carignan, CAS/BS 鈥25, BA 鈥25, stand next to one of the Project Move Out pods. Photo by Jeff Watts.

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From Trash to Treasure

This May, Project Move Out collected 500 pounds of food and about five tons of clothing from 17吃瓜在线 students.
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Architectural rendering of Meltzer Center for Athletic Performance & the Sports Center Annex

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Meltzer Center Poised to Be 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 First Net Zero Building, but What Is Net Zero?

17吃瓜在线 achieved carbon neutrality in 2018 and is now moving to further advance our sustainability goals by adding what is expected to become its first Net Zero Energy building to the campus portfolio.
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Glory Iorliam

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Meet Glory Iorliam, CAS Graduate Student Commencement Speaker 2024

Iorliam will deliver graduate student remarks for College of Arts and Sciences at Bender Arena on May 11
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17吃瓜在线's first geothermal heat pump system under construction

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Meltzer Center will feature 17吃瓜在线's first geothermal heat pump system

Construction begins for 17吃瓜在线's first geothermal heat pump system, as part of Meltzer Center for Athletic Performance
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A seismograph records an earthquake

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Professor MacAvoy on the Science of Earthquakes

After earthquake rattles New Jersey, Professor of Environmental Science Stephen MacAvoy answers our questions about recent earthquakes across the globe
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Protest sign reading "Change the Politics, Not the CLimate"

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Who Are Today's Climate Activists?

SIS professor Dana R. Fisher explores the truth about three of the big myths being told about climate activism and the climate movement today.
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Tim Doud with his Art at Amtrak mural 鈥淎 Great Public Work鈥

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College Faculty Receive 80 Awards Totaling Over $11 Million in 2023

Faculty awards making impacts on issues at local, national, and global levels
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Energy and water use on campus during winter 2023-24 closure

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Winter Energy Curtailment Efforts Result in Significant Energy and Water Cost Savings

The measurements all have been collected and analyzed and the findings make apparent that 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 annual Winter Energy Curtailment efforts were again an overwhelming success.
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Seventy-five percent of campus waste filters into large containers near 17吃瓜在线鈥檚 Sports Center Annex.

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Trace Your Waste

Leave fewer (environmental) footprints behind by following Facility Management鈥檚 trash-sorting guidelines.
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This year鈥檚 Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, running now through March 23, will tip off on February 7 at Bender Arena with the 10th Annual Sustainability-themed Men鈥檚 Basketball game.

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17吃瓜在线 Men's Basketball 10th Annual Sustainability Awareness Game, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

Tip-off to eight-week national competition to reduce waste produced on campus
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