Though our office is small, we have a BIG impact. Sustainability touches everything we do which means that every student, staff and faculty on campus can benefit and participate.
Anh Le, student communications aide, Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management|Posted on October 18, 2021
In January 2021, non-profit organizations, International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) and My Green Lab, have partnered together for the fifth year in a row to run the 2021 International Laboratory Freezer Challenge, a cold storage competition…
Anh Le, student communications aide, Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management|Posted on June 15, 2021
On a gorgeous sunny May morning, the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management (PSPM) organized a Native Prairie Garden Hands-On Maintenance Workday event to educate UIC faculty and staff about native garden…
In 2015, UIC Heritage Garden students used a carry-on sized suitcase to design and build a mobile seed library. This lime green suitcase full of seeds has since sprouted into a tool kit…
In the Fall of 2020, volunteers with UIC’s Food Recovery Network (FRN) chapter collected 7,589 pounds of food and donated it to area homeless shelters. UIC has been recognized for the achievement of…
This year, the Office of Sustainability grew because we were combined into the Office of Planning, Sustainability, and Project Management (PSPM) under the direction of Dave Taeyaerts, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Planning, Sustainability, and…
With bike parking at nearly every campus building, a Divvy membership discount for student and employees, and many additional resources available to cyclists, the University of Illinois Chicago has maintained its certification as…
Despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, UIC doubled the number of labs that participated in the challenge in 2019, with eight labs across several different departments participating.
Dr. Cynthia Klein Banai, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of Sustainability|Posted on October 07, 2020
Via OakPark.com. Read full article here: https://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/10-22-2019/Climate-change-is-our-focus/ Last month, young people took to the streets in over 150 countries pleading for “adults” to do something in light of the United Nations emergency climate…
