Congrats to our Environmental Studies students on wrapping up their courses! We have some of the most talented, engaged, service-minded, equity-driven, and smart undergrads. Good luck with exams :)

Congratulations to Governors State on receiving a $1 million U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines Development Award to lead the IIN project titled Advancing Smart Logistics and make Illinois a nation-leading advanced #transportation and #logistics hub! go.uillinois.edu/IIN-NSF-Engine…

Transportation systems are central to sustainability's 3 E's: equity, economy, ecology. All of us at the Institute are excited to be collaborative partners in this statewide innovation engine. Go Huskies! U.S. National Science Foundation NIU ilin gsunews.govst.edu/advancing-smar…

Had a blast touring Scripps Institution of Oceanography with the Stuart Sandin lab for our #nsffunded outreach exchange trip between @sacnas chapter students from San Diego State University and NIU Sustainability NIU today! This photo is taken from where boats are launched on Scripps’ pier.

As our fiscal year winds down, reflecting on the impact we had thanks to external resources+relationships: ✓ $70k to support undergrad scholarships/fellowships ✓ $70k in grad assistant stipends ✓ $40k for faculty collab. research ...across 12 departments. 🙏

Being part of this effort was and will be so rewarding. We're excited to help anchor the NIU work supporting Chicago State University and Northeastern Illinois University and building digital equity across Northern Illinois.

Congratulations to Allyson Thompson, one of our amazing Environmental Studies students (lower left corner in the pic). Today she shares her experiences as Yale Conservation Scholar JEDSI after a summer with the Sharon Audubon Center in Connecticut Audubon Society. NIU

Allyson's work included participation in the Bird Genoscape Project (BGP) and ample community engagement opportunities. A big thank you to Holly Jones for mentoring Allyson through her evidence-based restoration lab. Below is a snapshot of Allyson's presentation! Congrats! NIU

How did we spend our summer vacation? - 12 new majors and counting - 8 graduate and six undergraduate fellows for AY24 - $765K in new grants - Applications for $6.4M more But also finding time to reconnect with family & friends and enjoy the planet we care about sustaining!

Welcome (and welcome back) Huskies! Excited to see a lot of new Environmental Studies students and many others passionate about sustainability.

We're at the Earth System Governance Project conference at the beautiful Radboud University ! Thomas Skuzinski and C Kuehl will be sharing research tomorrow and Thursday. Fully vegan conference in an amazingly sustainable city and country. NIU @niumpa

Day 2 at Earth System Governance Project at Radboud University. The hybrid panels have been seamless. Thomas Skuzinski just presented research on sustainability planning and implementation in Illinois municipalities. C Kuehl tomorrow on the psychology of intl envtl cooperation under uncertainty.

We have a new collaboration space for our faculty, students, and staff working on sustainability. We're dubbing it The Green Room 🙂 Here is C Kuehl and some students working on findings from the NIU BARKS survey about student sustainability behaviors & attitudes.