IMAGINE magazine
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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 problem. In 2014, Ben Hufford, a…
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Fighting Fire With … Chemistry
Take two sofas—one manufactured today and another in 1970—and light them on fire. If you did, IU Southeast student and firefighter Josh Scalf says you’d notice a difference. Due to…
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Improving Children’s Health, One Game at a Time
Typically, the children play soccer on packed dirt, not grass. And the balls are sometimes rags taped together. Sometimes, they’re just tape. Those were some of the conditions that Sarah…
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Saving Lives With Geography
Pop quiz: What weather-related phenomenon causes the most deaths each year? Did you guess storms? Blizzards? Floods? Chances are, you didn’t start with “heat.” Yet in North America, extreme heat…
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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 his home country of Kenya. In…