Author: The UTD Mercury
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Trees tagged to monitor health
Over the past two months, Facilities Management has worked to tag and record data for about 5,000 trees on campus in the hopes of joining a national arboreal conservation program and to simplify grounds maintenance. Using a company called Arbor Pro, Landscape Supervisor Jay Jascott hired experts to come to UTD and identify the species…
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Food For Thought
Shrenik Jain stepped through the threshold of a small space in the ground floor of the Eugene McDermott Library. He scanned row after row of food items until one container caught his eye — it was a jar of peanut butter. The mechanical engineering graduate student’s interest piqued because he’d never tried the spread before.…
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SG to fund green ideas next fall
A Student Government initiative to improve sustainability on campus that began in the spring is ready for a reboot heading into the fall semester. On June 24, The Office of Student Affairs approved the launch of the Green Initiative website, which accepted proposals for green projects that could be undertaken on campus. The deadline for…