Sustainability News and Features

Hoosier Rideboard shares a ride and lightens the load on cost
May 16, 2022
IU Southeast students, faculty and staff can now search for carpool partners on a secure portal only available to the campus community. Rides can be one-time carpool trips or daily commutes for people looking for savings on gasoline purchases, tolls, and vehicle maintenance. The Rideboard site, available via One.iu.edu allows students, faculty, and staff to ...

Sustainability Council Chair Robin Frederick presents research at national conference
December 2, 2019
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Fresh from wrapping up a successful inaugural Sustainability Month at IU Southeast, Robin Frederick has taken the campus’s green commitment to another level. Frederick, an Honors Program student and chair of the IU Southeast sustainability council, presented the results of her research at the recent national conference of the Association ...

Campus sustainability star Robin Frederick helps TARC go green
August 16, 2017
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Dynamo. It’s a word you often hear when the topic turns to Robin Frederick, a senior from Mt. Olivet, Ky. majoring in human and environmental geography. But if Frederick is in the room, the topic quickly turns to sustainability. In the course of her career at IU Southeast, Frederick has ...

Retired professor pledges 94 acres towards IU Southeast research, sustainability efforts
May 1, 2017
NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A retired professor of educational psychology has committed his farm and home for future use at IU Southeast. The university will use Dr. Carl deGraaf’s 94 acres in Elizabeth, Indiana, for academic research, sustainability efforts, recreation and natural resource and habitat preservation. DeGraaf’s home on the property will be used for ...

Dean Coker-Kolo to lead Association of Third World Studies
January 29, 2016
By Steven Krolak NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Dr. Doyin Coker-Kolo, dean of the School of Education at Indiana University Southeast, was recently named president-elect of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS). The selection took place at the ATWS annual conference in Quito, Ecuador. Dean Coker-Kolo will take up her duties as president in November, ...