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Global Campus

Global Campus

Not your everyday walk on the beach

Callie Boatright -
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As a student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, I was able to network through one of my professors to receive an internship at the North Carolina Coastal Reserve at Masonboro Island. I was particularly interested in the internship because it would allow me to combine both of my majors.
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Global Campus

Shangri-Lost – My Internship in Nepal

Sean Froeb -
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While the Himalayas are truly a spectacle to behold, the greatest challenges in Nepal are not the summits that are there to climb but the adversity that the Nepali people face everyday.
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Global Campus

Urban Farm

Kellan Davidson -
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The idea of an Urban Farm, with food grown just a subway or a bus ride away has taken hold. Kellan Davidson of Ithaca College talks with The Battery Conservancy’s Farm Manager Carol Hammer about farming for production and community in Manhattan.
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EcoPrime 101

EcoPrime 101

Ansel Adams

Jane Engelsiepen -
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Ansel Adam’s clear environmentalist’s voice in concert with his breathtaking photography helped to arouse a budding environmental consciousness in the U.S.
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EcoPrime 101

Rachel Carson: giving nature a voice

Linda Engelsiepen -
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Rachel Carson’s rare ability to combine scientific fact with poetic language reached the hearts and minds of a lay audience and gave birth to the movement of environmental consciousness.
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EcoPrime 101

The Most Important Organism?

Jack Hall -
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On a recent fossil collecting trip a friend asked, “What do you think is the most important organism on the Earth?” She...
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University News

University News

Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables

Sunny Lewis -
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Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing community in northwestern Greenland, as the residents transition to renewable energy and an affordable, sustainable future.
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University News

Fixation on Nitrogen

Sunny Lewis -
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Scientists at three North American universities have discovered one of nature’s “backup methods” for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients. Research published today in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” shows that the process may be more resilient than previously known.
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University News

MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air

Sunny Lewis -
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A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool in the battle against climate change say the engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, who developed the new system.
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