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American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment
Climate Leadership Summit in Chicago
August 2009
Exploring Green Buildings on Chicago Campuses
CUERP's Dr. J. Marshall Eames represents Loyola University Chicago's efforts to build green.  Dr. Eames highlights the significant way in which student behavioral changes can impact overall campus sustainability in partnership with green building technologies and infrastructure, urging participants to do preliminary studies on student, faculty and staff behviors.  Other panelists include Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Commissioner for the City of Chicago Department of the Environment, Cynthia Kein-Banai of UIC and Paul Mathews from St. Xavier.
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WLUW-Radio
April 4, 2009
Live from the Heartland
Dr. J. Marshall Eames discusses Loyola’s sustainability initiative, specifically what we have done on campus to be a leader in campus sustainability and what Loyola’s future plans are for increased sustainability.  Dr. Eames emphasizes Loyola and CUERP’s role in curriculum design and teaching students to think about the decisions that they make.

WTTW-11
May 30, 2008
Chicago Tonight
Nancy Tuchman (director, CUERP) as well as recent Loyola graduate, Zach Waickman,
are interviewed about Loyola’s course, Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP):
Biodiesel, on WTTW-11’s show Chicago Tonight.

WMAQ-TV
April 22, 2008
NBC 5 Chicago News at 6:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Coffman (professor and chair, communication) and Nancy Tuchman (director,
CUERP) are interviewed on this on-air broadcast for NBC 5 Chicago News at 6:00 p.m.,
about Loyola’s STEP: Biodiesel program.

WMAQ-TV
December 6, 2007
NBC 5 News Today
Loyola University Chicago’s environmental awareness course, Solutions to
Environmental Problems (STEP): Biodiesel, and its students, were featured and
discussed on a live broadcast of WMAQ-TV’s morning show, NBC 5 News Today.

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Loyola
Summer 2009
"Bees, please!"
CUERP’s plan to manage a honey producing bee hive on campus is highlighted as part of CUERP’s STEP Food Systems class to be offered Fall 2009 and Spring 2010.

Inside Loyola
April 2009
"Loyola students talk "green" in DC"
CUERP offsets the costs for more than 30 Loyola students to travel to Washington DC and join 10,000 other students in a summit called PowerShift '09 designed to emphasize renewable energy, green job creation, and caps on carbon emissions while also giving students the opportunity to lobby the U.S. Congress on climate and energy policy.

Inside Loyola
Jan/Feb 2009
"Loyola Faculty member named University's sustainability director"
J. Marshall Eames, PhD is appointed by CUERP to direct Loyola's sustainability initiatives on both lakeside campuses.

Loyola
Summer 2008
"Biofuel as a teaching tool"
Highlights the $75,000 two-year grant that CUERP's Solutions to Environmental Problems course received from the Environmental Protection Agency to bring CUERP's knowledge of biodiesel production to Chicago-area high schools.

Chicago Sun-Times
April 28, 2008
"What's Cooking?"
Shane Lishawa (research associate, CUERP) is interviewed for this article about Loyola's environmental course, Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP) and its recent $75,000 EPA grant which the class received to extend its program and teaches high schools how to make biodiesel from waste vegetable cooking oil.

The Phoenix
2 April 2008
"CUERP organizes green initiative for donations"
CUERP's "Think Green and Give" initiative is highlighted as an opportunity for Loyola students to donate their unwanted items to charity at the end of the semester instead of throwing them into dumpsters.  The article notes the previous year's collection of 8.6 tons of donated items in 2007 that the initiative collected and kept from the landfill. 

Inside Loyola
November 2007
"Loyola wastes no time"
Discusses Dr. Nancy Tuchman’s efforts to develop a sustainability task force to review Loyola’s use of natural resources and develop recommendations for what the University can do to reduce waste.

Inside Loyola
November 2007
"Taking a STEP for a sustainable environment"
CUERP launches a new curriculum called the Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP) class with Alison Varty and Shane Lishawa as co-directors of the course that includes 13 faculty members from 8 different disciplines and schools.

Inside Loyola
November 2007
"Attend the biodiesel public forum"
Describes an opportunity for Loyola students to attend a biodiesel public forum highlighting the work of Loyola’s STEP class through a documentary film and discussion.

The Phoenix
November 14, 2007
"Loyola’s Own Biodiesel"
Loyola University Chicago’s new interdisciplinary program, Solutions to Environmental
Problems (STEP), and its biodiesel course, are the focus of this feature article.

Loyola
Spring 2006
"An interdisciplinary approach to the urban ecosystem"
Highlights Dr. Kenneth Johnson’s research project investigating whether human population growth increases the likelihood that aquatic invasive plant species can harm northern Midwestern lakes and the people who use them.  The article does so by connecting Johnson’s research within a collaborative environment and deepening dedication to cross-disciplinary research that Loyola’s CUERP facilitates.

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Medill News Service
October 17, 2007
"At Loyola’s Student-Run Biofuel Lab, ‘Fill It Up with Onion Rings, Please’"
Shane Lishawa (research associate, Center for Urban Environmental Research and
Policy) is interviewed in this report about Loyola’s new Solutions to Environmental
Problems (STEP) program, a biodiesel course which teaches students how to recycle
waste cooking vegetable oil into fuel, and how to promote and market the product to
others.