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NMU Campus Nursery Celebration
On Tuesday, October 1st, Northern celebrated the grand opening of the Campus Nursery! Located behind Central Receiving, the Campus Nursery will be home to growing native trees, shrubs, and bushes before being planted in landscaping projects on campus. Students, staff, and administrators attended the celebration and planted a Sugar Maple, of the Fall Fiesta variety (Acer saccharum ‘Balista’) to honor this grand opening.
Sustainability Advisory Council Meeting Notes 9.20.24
At last week’s meeting, we organized our new committees (Green Fund and Strategy Team). We discussed having and using a framework for navigating requests for organizational support on various projects, grants, or initiatives. You can read the full notes on our website. SAC meetings are always open to the public, join us!
CABIN Lab - Pro-Environmental Reward Research
Dr. Josh Carlson, Director of the Cognitive x Affective Behavior & Integrated Neuroscience (CABIN) Lab, and Nina Di Loreto, McNair Student, are conducting an EEG study to understand better the neural processes involved in reward processing and in particular reward processing related to positive pro-environmental outcomes. They are looking to add about 25 more participants to the existing participants pool. You will recover money for your participation and have the chance to donate some of your winnings to the Superior Watershed group.