Environment ·
A Bright Idea: Reducing Energy Through Material Reuse
AU reduces waste by reusing materials from demolition during recent tunnel renovation.
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Environment ·
Taking the Temperature of Global Warming
SIS professor Dana Fisher and a team of researchers polled participants about climate change at the March to End Fossil Fuels.
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Environment ·
Is DC’s Anacostia River on the Rebound and Safe for Swimming?
Environmental science department chair and associate professor Karen Knee answers our question of the week
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Research ·
Researchers Investigate Microplastics in D.C.'s Waterways
New research documents pollution problem to help policymakers
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Student Life ·
Students: Need Help with Classes, Majors, Registration? Meet the CAS Peer Advisors
Advisors can assist with registration, academic policies and procedures, and campus resources
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Environment ·
Energy-saving LED lights come to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
Renovations this summer brought energy-saving LED lights to Mary Graydon Center and Roper Hall
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Science ·
Hurricanes, Wildfires and Heat Waves: Is Extreme Weather Our New Normal?
Professor Stephen MacAvoy answers our question of the week
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Research ·
Student Research on Impacts of Pollution and Climate Change
Environmental Science students are working this summer to better understand forces harming ecosystems
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Environment ·
Two Facts and a Fiction: Heat Wave
AU atmospheric scientist Valentina Aquila explains what on Earth is happening on the heels of the hottest June on record
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Environment ·
Research Protecting Some of World’s Most Threatened Wetlands
MS student Nina Mewborne analyzing data from her spring fieldwork in American Samoa
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