Beautiful U Day 2008
Thursday, April 17
Congratulations to the 15 student and departmental groups who will receive Beautiful U Day grants totaling more than $28,000. Thank you for your efforts to make the University of Minnesota more beautiful.
Headwaters Ecology Club
Native Restoration of Itasca Gardens
The Headwaters Ecology Club will restore gardens at the University of Minnesota’s Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories and campus and plant native and flowering species.
Southeast Como Improvement Student Association Student Group
Beautiful U Bike Trailer Building Extravaganza
The SECIA Student Group will lead a workshop demonstrating how to build a bicycle trailer from a salvaged bike frame. In addition, SECIA will demonstrate the east of enrolling in Xcel Energy’s Windsource program and will distribute solar motion lights.
Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Club
Sarita Wetland Revegetation
The project will restore the native understory of the woodland wetland. After planting, the group will evaluate the success of a variety of herbaceous plants and forest herbs. In addition, the Club will add native shrubs for wildlife habitat, such as Gray Dogwood and others that provide food and nesting sites for songbirds.
Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
Plastic Water Bottle Exchange
In their Water Bottle Exchange project, MPIRG will educate students on the many environmental problems caused by plastic water bottles and will provide students with eco-friendly, reusable alternatives in exchange for their plastic water bottles.
UMD Sustainability Coalition
Vending Machine Power Conservation Project
The UMD Sustainability Coalition will install Vending Misers on 10 vending machines across campus as a demonstration of their energy saving possibilities. These devices function as motion detectors: they turn off vending machines when there is no activity around them and back on a gain when motion is sensed.
UMD Office of Civic Engagement
Composting with Children’s Place
The Office of Civic Engagement will use BUD Grant funds to buy a 100 gallon vermicomposting bin that will be placed at UMD’s Children’s Place, an on-campus child care facility. The children will collect their compostable food scraps during lunch and will “feed the worms” on a weekly basis. The project will be enriched by partnerships with the UMD Biology Club and Recreation Sports Outdoor Program
Crookston Student Association
Faculty, Staff and Student Aluminum Can Drive Contest
The Crookston Student Association will sponsor a university-wide aluminum can drive contest between students, faculty and staff. Student Association will tally the number of cans collected in the coming weeks and will announce the winner on Beautiful U Day.
UMD Facilities Management – Recycling and Solid Waste Unit
Student Neighbors Furniture Clean-Up
Again this year, this project will help students recycle and dispose of furniture when they move from off-campus apartments at the end of Spring Semester. This popular program has improved relationships between UMD students and residents in surrounding neighborhoods.
UMM Studio Art Discipline
Woodkiln Site Beautification
This project will improve the two acre area on the northeast edge of the Morris campus that houses the U of M Morris Woodkiln. Volunteers will remove brush and debris that includes scrap concrete and wood pallets. They will also plant dogwood windbreaks and install 10 new birdhouses.
North Central ROC and Extension Regional Center
Rain Gardens at Grand Rapids
Volunteers will create rain gardens on two site adjacent to the Administration Building at the North Central ROC. The project will gather rainwater that would otherwise runoff from the site.
UMM Habitat for Humanity
Pot Your Own Plant
Members of the Morris campus will select and plant their own perennials, houseplants and flowering plants. The project will beautify offices and residence hall rooms across campus and will building community.
Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society
Water Structure and Peat Bog for the Nature Nook
The Nature Nook on the Crookston campus includes the three landscape biomes found in Minnesota. The Wildlife Society project will complete the coniferous forest and bog biomes with a wetland pool and rocky waterfall.
Alpha Eta Rho
Crookston Airport Beautification
The Alpha Eta Rho Fraternity in Crookston will beautify the Crookston Municipal Airport-Kirwood Field with flower beds, shrubs and perennial flowers. The project will significantly improve an area used extensively by the University of Minnesota Crookston aviation students, faculty and staff.
Outdoor Educators Club
Rock Pond Clean Up and Restoration
This project will restore the shoreline around Rock Pond in the Bagely Nature Area at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Volunteers will remove non-native species and clean up this heavily used nature area.
UMM Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
Green Energy Building Identifiers
As a national leader in green energy, the University of Minnesota Morris has a goal of becoming energy self-sufficient by 2010. This project will provide 33 sign holders, placed in main entrances of buildings across campus that identify the building as powered by renewable and sustainable energy.
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