Articles in the Sustainability Category
The University becomes only the 25th institution to earn a Gold rating through the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
On Oct. 19, the state legislature’s Building Commission authorized UW Oshkosh to seek design and engineering work for the estimated $26 million renovation of Clow Social Science Center.
On Oct. 3, the UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and student team running the plant activated on-site turbine engines, combusting the gas and harvesting and selling energy.
Food co-op, neighborhood revitalization and community garden proposals are up for a final vote and a $1,750 prize in Square One’s and the UW Oshkosh American Democracy Project’s ‘Creating a Stronger Community Contest.’
In a series of video slideshows, Ian Griffiths of Sage Hall green architecture firm Berners Schober Associates Inc. offers deeper insight on the sustainable design innovations and energy technologies incorporated into UW Oshkosh’s new, 191,000-square-foot academic center.
Some hope to propel business, journalism, geography and a host of other students in varied disciplines with a state-of-the-art educational vehicle, the first new academic building at UW Oshkosh in 40 years. For others, the reasons are further tied to tradition, to family, to memory…
A dedication ceremony was held Sept. 23 for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Sage Hall, beginning a new chapter in the building’s remarkable story of collaboration.
Just about two years in the making, this time lapse video of the construction of Sage Hall shows the dynamic building’s evolution since ground was broken on the project — one of the largest ever in the New North — in fall 2009.
Wisconsin’s largest dairy farm will be home to one of Wisconsin’s most dynamic research, renewable energy production and public education facilities as part of an initiative involving the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s College of Letters and Science and UW Oshkosh Foundation.
No institution or organization in the state of Wisconsin — public or private — boasts as many solar thermal panels as UW Oshkosh. With summer officially underway, Director of Facilities Management Steve Arndt talks about the varied solar systems the university uses to heat and power the 13,600-student campus.
