From the Ground Up, a student club at SIUE, hosted a kombucha brewing event on campus recently at the Biotechnology Lab Incubator on University Park. From the Ground Up is a group…
Manure as Renewable Resource
Given that approximately 75% of Illinois is farmland, it is not uncommon for drivers to pass a farm and flare their nostrils at the smell of manure. Though it may be unpleasant…
Bio-refinery apprentice program open for applications
The National Corn to Ethanol Research Center located at SIUE’s University Park, better known as NCERC, is now taking applications for bio-refinery apprentices. The apprentice program is 18 months long and will…
Goshen Farmers’ Market @SIUE Open Again
The Goshen Farmers’ Market has re-opened after taking a couple of months off for the winter season. Each Tuesday in April, from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m., students, staff, and professors can…
History… Will it repeat itself?
With every car started in the world, we see our world’s ozone layer breakdown a little every single day. If this continues our world as we know it will cease to exist….
Bring Your Own to Better the Environment
Bring Your Own Glen-Ed, or BYO Glen-Ed is a local group dedicated to advocating for eco-friendly policies on a personal level. They seek out alternatives to using plastic bags and plastic straws…
Chemistry students begin work on E3 partner projects
“Ferric ion reducing antioxidant power…” Shea Walker hastily scrawls descriptions and diagrams across a whiteboard in the front of a conference room in the Biotechnology Laboratory Incubator (BLI) at the edge of…
E3 takes off!!
Pam Jacobs of the University of Illinois Extension for Monroe, Madison and St. Clair Counties hands off the mic to Joe Hardin, vice chair of the Monroe County Economic Development Corporation at the E3 kickoff.