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Spotlight on CEES Partner: Dr. Brian Plankis

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 10:30pm

Dr. Brian Plankis, a major contributor to CEES’ educational outreach programs, has made environmental education his life’s work.  Brian was initially impassioned for science by his 7th grade science teacher, Mr. Bill King who taught at Culver Community High School. 

CEES Wishes Congratulations to Elizabeth Johnson

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 10:09pm

Elizabeth Johnson, previous Education Outreach Coordinator for CEES, is taking on a new endeavor.  Elizabeth has accepted to be a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow through the University of Indianapolis!  Congratulations to Elizabeth!

Update on Discovering the Science of the Environment in Kenya

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 9:31pm

-Collaborative blog by Jenna Gatzke & Amber Rollings

For the past year, CEES’ educational outreach team has been working with a total of six schools in both Indianapolis and Eldoret, Kenya (funding appreciably provided by Dow AgroSciences).

CEES Engages in Cyanobacteria Research

Submitted by arolling on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 5:29pm

- Guest blog submitted by Kira Wiseman.  Kira is a recent graduate of the B.S. Environmental Science program. Kira helps in data entry and water sampling processes in order to facilitate cyanobacteria research.

Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana

Submitted by nclercin on Fri, 07/17/2015 - 5:12pm

For those of you that have not heard yet, on July 1st Governor Pence signed an Executive Order Proclamation making July 2015 Lakes Appreciation Month in Indiana!

IUPUI students help to meet CEES mission

Submitted by martinpa on Tue, 06/30/2015 - 1:01pm

Here at CEES, we are lucky to have great IUPUI undergraduate and graduate students that assist us in carrying out our mission.  This past Spring Semester, we had 19 driven students!  Here is a short summary of their efforts and some links to their work...

ROW | StreamLines

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 1:24pm

- Guest blog submitted by Meera M. Patel. Ms. Patel is a rising senior at Fishers High School, a High Honor Roll student and a Project STEM intern.  This summer, Ms. Patel is researching Combined Sewage Overflows, assisting with community based research and spending some of her time interning with Amber Rollings at CEES.

Researchers from IUPUI investigate drought effects on legumes

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 12:48pm

CEES researchers (and IUPUI Department of Earth Sciences faculty) Dr. Lixin Wang and Dr. Pierre-Andre Jacinthe and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Stefani Daryanto published a new paper this month, “Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production,” in the journal PLOS ONE. Wang et al.’s focus on legumes is of particular importance due to these protein rich (and tasty) Fabaceae family members being major players for food security for the developing world as well as gaining popularity from increasing healthy-eating-style dieting trends.

CEES at the International Symposium on Service Learning

Submitted by arolling on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 10:57am
Service Learning

Thanks to a dissemination grant from the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning, researchers Jennifer Nelson, Jessica Davis, and Sarah Goss from IUPUI’s Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) and the Department of Earth Sciences attended the 6th International Symposium on Service Learning (ISSL) at the University of Indianapolis.

Jessica Davis leaves CEES to become IUPUI's Campus Director of Sustainability

Submitted by martinpa on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 5:04pm

Congratulations, Jessica! We are pleased though a bit sad to share that as of June 1st Jessica Davis has stepped down from Assistant Director at CEES to assume a new role as the IUPUI Campus Director of Sustainability.

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