What’s In Your Dust (And Why Does It Matter?)
Inhale. Exhale. That’s one of about 20,000 breaths you’ll take today. And with each breath, you’re taking in dust particles—roughly 50 billion per hour….
Environment
17 Ways IU Is Rising to the (Grand) Challenge
In 2016, IU President Michael A. McRobbie announced the Grand Challenges program to solve some of our state’s and world’s most pressing problems. Through…
Cut from the Same Cloth
If the return of acid-wash jeans tells us anything, it’s that there’s no such thing as a truly worn-out style. Unfortunately, the same can’t…
A Field, a Farm, and a Food-Sourcing Feat
Take 10th Street east out of Bloomington, past the bypass, and to your right, tucked into a pocket of apartment complexes, you’ll find the…
Studying the Environment—in a Kayak!
Between 2013 and 2016, Columbus, Ind., native Bryan Brown, BA’78, kayaked more than 7,000 total miles as a way to celebrate some of the…
Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste
A scoop of dirt from a farm in the small Indiana town of Rossville may contain some of the answers to our world’s plastic…
Bringing Solar Power to Kenya
Boniface Njuguna thought, “I know how I can help.” The IU South Bend graduate had a bright idea for solving a dual problem in…