| 2024 Case Competition Focuses on Sustainability Topic | The IIPHRP Global Health Case Competition hosts one interdisciplinary competition each year. The top 3 teams will receive cash prizes up to $500 per person, with the grand prize being a chance to implement your intervention with a company working in health services overseas.
The 2024 Case Topic: Sustainable Communities, Nutrition, and Resource Management in the Global South | | | | Did you know you can recycle holiday light strands at seasonal drop-off locations in the Iowa City and Coralville area at no cost? Holiday light strands should not be placed in regular recycling, so recycle your burnt-out holiday lights at multiple locations from November 20, 2023, through January 7, 2024.
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- Ice Fest | Jan 13-14
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day @ Mercer Park | Jan 15 at 9:30 a.m.
- Clean Water Webinar: Nitrate Pollution & Public Health | Jan 16 at 12:00 p.m.
- IC Repair - fix-it, mend-it, and reuse it! | Jan 20 at 9:00 a.m.
- Bee City Open House: Pesticides, Policy, & You | Jan 25 at 10:00 a.m. PST
- In the Life of Beetles: Superstars of Soil Health, Pollination, and More | Jan 25 at 10:00 a.m. PST
- Why We Compete: Global Health Case Competition Information Session | Jan 25, 29, and 31
- Winter Wildland Alliance Backcountry Film Festival | Jan 26-27
- Bee City & Bee Campus USA Virtual Affiliate Meetup | Jan 31 at 12:30 p.m.
- Climate Smart Agriculture: Rethinking Iowa's Land, Water, and Food Production | Feb 3 at 8:30 a.m.
- Freeze Fest | Feb 4 at 1:00 p.m.
- Online: Best Practices for Pollinators Summit | Feb 27-29
| | | | The Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory provides great opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the public to engage with a living prairie, including prairie restoration, insect and botany analysis, native and invasive species identification, and groundwater surveys.
Read more | | | This 3-credit course to Sicily, Italy will help students explore effective tools in the fight against organized crime, by allowing them to actively participate in the management of confiscated Mafia assets.
Read more | | | | University of Iowa PhD student David Ramotowski is working on how to decrease the effects of harmful chemicals found in soil deposits using Iowa’s most plentiful agricultural product: corn.
Read more | | | On December 8th, the University of Iowa’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment hosted a social at the climbing wall located inside the Campus Recreational and Wellness Center. All students were welcome to attend the event, where free rock wall and boulder climbing, movies, and pizza awaited them.
Read more | | | | The City of Iowa City was recently recognized with a Gold Level designation from the national SolSmart program for encouraging the growth of clean, affordable solar energy at the local level.
Read more | | | Des Moines neighborhoods will be seeing a number of environmental changes in the future following the approval of a plan to combat climate change. In a 7-0 vote, Des Moines city council approved a recommendation to adopt Adapt DSM — the city's climate action and adaption plan.
Read more | | | National & International News | | | | A recent study from the team published in the journal Science Advances looks at the role of trees and the natural compounds they release into the atmosphere in cloud formation. The goal is to more precisely understand the state of the climate before the Industrial Revolution — and how it's changed since.
Read more | | | The first transatlantic flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel departed London for New York on Tuesday as the industry seeks to prove the viability of greener air travel. Virgin Atlantic’s Boeing 787 is burning a blend of 88% waste fats supplied by AirBP, and 12% synthetic aromatic kerosene made from plant sugars.
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