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Connecticut College to develop global environmental justice curriculum
With a new grant to revolutionize the environmental justice curriculum, Connecticut College faculty will help students better understand their place in the world and the responsibility they bear to their neighbors.
Connecticut College celebrates the centennial of the birth of Rachel Carson, the influential author of "Silent Spring"
Connecticut College is celebrating the centennial of the birth of Rachel Carson, the late biologist, ecologist and author, with a lecture, a panel discussion moderated by Carson biographer Linda Lear and an illustrated presentation of the Lear/Carson collection at Connecticut College on Sept. 21.
College installs green roof
Connecticut College recently got a touch more green with the installation of a green roof atop Cro-Bar in the College Center at Crozier-Williams
Students could change the future with summer science research
Each day Taryn Campbell ´12 is working in a Connecticut College lab this summer, synthesizing compounds alongside her peers and Professor of Chemistry Timo Ovaska.
15 seniors earn college's highest academic honor
Fifteen Connecticut College seniors have been named Winthrop Scholars, the highest academic honor bestowed by the college.
Sprout garden to get higher profile
Connecticut College's Sprout Garden, currently tucked behind 360 Apartments, will soon get a prominent new home on campus. The garden, established in its original location in 2005 as a sustainable organic garden initiative, will be moved to the open field directly behind the College Center at Crozier-Williams.
Students help Coast Guard cadets build nesting boxes for endangered local bird
Armed with drills, hammers and scissors, Connecticut College students recently spent an entire Saturday helping cadets from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and members of Audubon Connecticut build 200 nesting boxes for endangered roseate terns.
Students turn 'one man's junk' into robots
Students rummaged through the mounds of junk - old phones, shoes, scraps of fabric, a Mr. Potato Head and even a Barbie Corvette. By the end of the evening, "one man´s junk" would be an army of robots.
Leading environmentalist Bill McKibben to speak at Connecticut College Nov. 19
Bill McKibben, a leader in the environmental movement for more than 20 years, will speak at Connecticut College Friday, Nov. 19, at 3:30 p.m. in Evans Hall.
Connecticut College launches on-campus composting initiative
With one big grind, Connecticut College officially began composting earlier today, as the college community gathered for a celebration and demonstration of the college´s two Earth Tubs, commercial-sized compost units that will reduce the college´s food waste by up to 35,000 pounds a year.
Connecticut College Haiti Response Committee organizes events for April 8-10
The College community is mobilizing to help Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. The Connecticut College Haiti Response Committee, comprised of faculty, staff and students, is organizing a series of educational and fundraising events for April 8-10.
Final lecture scheduled in series about sustainability and the arts
Thanks to grants from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Connecticut College faculty are able to collaborate each year on a program that offers opportunities for multidisciplinary study with arts at the core.
Connecticut College continues to offset energy usage
Connecticut College has purchased wind renewable energy certificates (RECs) to offset an estimated 100 percent of the college´s annual electricity consumption.
New science center to open in fall 2012
Connecticut College is moving forward with a renovation and expansion of New London Hall in excess of $20 million which will transform the historic building into a state-of-the-art home for the life sciences and computer science.
Students look to wind for energy production
Six students are completing an independent study to determine the feasibility of a wind turbine on campus. On Monday, two 20-ft wind-monitoring towers were erected to study wind speed and direction in two different locations.
Connecticut College awarded $40,000 grant to establish student-led program for energy conservation
Connecticut College has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation to establish an innovative learning program for students to reduce energy consumption at the College.
Students head to D.C. for green ´Power Shift´
A total of 120 Connecticut College students will attend Power Shift ´09, a four-day climate and energy conference that will culminate with a rally on Capitol Hill.
Environmentalist Emily Conrad ´11 is her generation´s ´Green Queen´
Environmental studies major Emily Conrad ´11 is passionate about the environment, and she is using every avenue available to share her passion with the Connecticut College community and the world at large.
Student clubs unite to form new environmental coalition
As if taking their cues from the classic TV series "Captain Planet," environmentally-minded Connecticut College students are joining forces to help save our planet.
Connecticut College to conduct ´green´ audit
NEW LONDON, Conn. - This fall, Connecticut College is putting its long-standing reputation as an environmental leader to the test with a third-party environmental sustainability audit that will assess everything from the amount of water flushing down the pipes to the post-consumer content of paper purchases.
Channel 8 News highlights College´s green initiatives
Connecticut College´s environmental and sustainability initiatives were highlighted in a WTNH-TV Channel 8 (ABC) news segment that aired Feb. 17.
Connecticut College professor to speak about the importance of large nature reserves Nov. 7
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Robert Askins, the Karla Heurich Harrison ´28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College, will give a lecture about the importance of large nature reserves at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Ernst Common Room in the college´s Blaustein Humanities Center.
Senior's thesis considers possibility of wind power on campus
Does the Connecticut College campus have enough wind to justify a wind turbine?
Students focus on the environment with Rooftop Rally and RecycleMania
Connecticut College students took to the rooftops to demonstrate their passion for the environment this Earth Week.
Connecticut College awarded $100,000 to continue renovating historic steel house
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College has received $100,000 in grants to continue with the next phase of renovations to the college´s notable steel house.
Senior Carra Cheslin represents New England youth at UN climate change negotiations
The environmental studies major is heading to Cancun, Mexico, to lobby for climate change solutions at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which begins next week.
Connecticut College finishes in top 10 in RecycleMania
Connecticut College recycled 44.83 pounds per person and 40.36 percent of the solid waste generated on campus during the 10-week national "RecycleMania" competition, earning a spot in the top 10.
Nature is front and center at Earth Fest April 18
Connecticut College´s annual Earth Day celebration, Earth Fest!, is Sunday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the College´s Tempel Green
Connecticut College makes list of top green colleges
Connecticut College has earned a spot on The Princeton Review's -Guide to 311 Green Colleges,- an annual guidebook saluting the nation's most environmentally responsible green colleges.
Students design theoretical landscape architecture plans for Fort Trumbull site
Connecticut College has earned a spot on The Princeton Review's -Guide to 311 Green Colleges,- an annual guidebook saluting the nation's most environmentally responsible green colleges.
Connecticut College student takes a F.R.E.S.H. look at the summer internship
For Linnea Camerota ´08, the seeds she sowed at the F.R.E.S.H. New London garden represented the hope, sustainability and conservationism that are at the very core of this New London-based community organization.
Earth Hour Lights Out 2009
For one hour this Saturday, lights all around the Connecticut College campus will be switched off in a symbolic gesture intended to raise awareness about climate change.
Goldwater Honorable Mentions awards
Two Connecticut College juniors, Audrey Davis and Stephen Rossiter, have been awarded 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship honorable mentions. This prestigious honor is awarded to students who have outstanding potential and intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.
Phil Haynes '14 helps establish organic farm in New Jersey
Phil Haynes '14 knew what he was getting himself into when his brother asked for help establishing an organic farm - early mornings, long days and a never ending to do list. Yet he didn't hesitate.
Students donate gently used goods through Spring Give 'n' Go
The College's Environmental Model Committee created the Spring Give 'n' Go to make sure unwanted items like furniture, lamps and electronics go to good use in the greater New London community.
Sproutfest! offers organic culinary delights
Stephanie Blennerhassett ´11 is the Iron Chef of Earth House.
Professor wins NSF grant to study ancient Arctic lakes and climate change
Peter Siver, the Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Connecticut College, has been awarded $379,756 by the National Science Foundation for climate-change research.
Professor emeritus honored as outstanding educator
Scott Warren, the Jean C. Tempel ´65 Professor Emeritus of Botany at Connecticut College, has received the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation´s William A. Niering Outstanding Educator Award.
´Celebration Earth: 2009´ packs April with Earth Day events at Connecticut College
This April, Connecticut College is cranking Earth Day up a notch with a month´s worth of events aimed at promoting sustainability, conservation and awareness.
Silfen Auditorium earns LEED Silver certification
Silfen Auditorium Connecticut College's largest classroom, Bill Hall's Silfen Auditorium, has been awarded LEED Silver certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.
RecycleMania hits Connecticut College
For the seventh year in a row, Connecticut College is participating in RecycleMania, a recycling competition that promotes waste reduction at colleges and universities across the country.
Rusty the Steel House is being restored
With a $101,500 grant from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), Connecticut College's historic steel house is being completely restored.
New video highlights Connecticut College's iconic greenhouse
In 1917, botany professor Caroline Black made a deal. She would accept a position at Connecticut College and chair the botany department on one condition - botany must remain separate from biology.
Two Connecticut College students win Goldwater Scholarships
Two Connecticut College students, Christopher Krupenye ´11 and Kelsey Taylor ´11, have received The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This is the first time two Connecticut College students have received the honor in the same year.
Tyler Dunham makes a great "green" impact
Tyler Dunham '09 has been a driving force behind Connecticut College's efforts to go green, working diligently to improve student awareness on issues of conservation and renewable energy.
Green, greener, greenest: Campus momentum grows for all things green
On Facebook, Connecticut College´s more than 2,200 fans can´t get enough of green news. And it´s no wonder. This year saw an increased momentum for shrinking the campus´s carbon footprint.
Geothermal system will heat and cool new Science Center
The energy in the ground underneath Tempel Green is going to heat - and cool - the new Science Center at New London Hall. It's one of several energy-saving technologies being incorporated into the building.
Five Decades after Silent Spring commemorates landmark book
Connecticut College is celebrating the centennial of the birth of Rachel Carson, the late biologist, ecologist and author, with a lecture, a panel discussion moderated by Carson biographer Linda Lear and an illustrated presentation of the Lear/Carson collection at Connecticut College on Sept. 21.
Students conserve energy one bulb at a time
The College´s Renewable Energy Club developed "The Light Bulb Exchange," a program that exchanges incandescent bulbs for Energy Star compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, which use 75 percent less energy.
