Sustainability
This process turns used plastic, glass, and paper products into new materials or products.
What is recycling?
This campus resource serves students, staff, and faculty who are food insecure or at risk of food insecurity as a reliable and stable supplemental source of food and other basic needs while providing resources to overcome food insecurity.
What is the Seawolves Pantry?
Participants of 2YLC are required to go to events and complete assignments over the course of each semester in these four domains.
What are
- Academic and Career Success
- Wellness
- Civic Engagement
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
This type of gas traps heat in the atmosphere.
What is greenhouse gas?
True or False: Sea turtles and other marine animals mistake plastic waste for food.
True. After ingesting plastic, sea turtles and other marine animals may suffer from choking, intestinal blockages, starvation, and even death.
This type of waste disposal facility can allow toxic substances to leach into the soil and contaminate groundwater.
What is a landfill?
This campus resource offers services such as crisis intervention, brief individual counseling, group counseling, wellness workshops, referrals to long-term services in the community, and psychiatric medication management services on-site.
What is the CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)?
These two are the closest dining locations to Lauterbur Hall.
What are West Side Dining and Peet's Coffee™?
The sea level does this as the temperature of the ocean increases.
What is rising?
True or False: Not using straws at all is better for the environment than using paper straws.
True, the production of paper straws expends resources such as wood, water, and energy; the transportation of paper straws generates greenhouse gas emissions.
This process breaks down organic waste into nutrient-rich material for planting crops.
What is composting?
If you are unsure how/where to get help and/or are facing a challenge that is impacting your academics, this campus resource will provide proactive and supportive consultation and refer you to other on-campus resources as needed.
What is the Student Support Team?
This is the name of the grass area outside the deVries Center.
What is the ERC Pit?
This type of fuel can last for years before needing to be replaced and produces very little greenhouse gas emissions.
What is nuclear fuel?
True or False: Ideally, there should be no greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
False, greenhouse gases are necessary to keep the planet warm so that biological life can thrive.
Greenhouse gases are only bad in excess, which will trap too much heat in the atmosphere.
The purpose of this annual event on April 22 is to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
What is Earth Day?
When you feel your concerns have not been adequately addressed through formal channels and don't know where else to go, this campus resource provides a safe place to voice your concerns and explore options for productive conflict management and resolution.
What is the Ombuds Office?
These two halls are collectively known as the Nobel Halls.
What are the Lauterbur Hall and the Yang Hall?
This energy source harnesses gravitational potential energy to generate electricity.
What is hydropower?
True or False: Reducing and reusing are generally more effective for the environment than recycling.
True. The 3 R’s are ranked from most to least effective in the following order:
1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
According to World Wildlife Fund Australia, plastic bottles and plastic cups take this long to decompose.
What are 450 years?
At the Academic Success and Tutoring Center, these individuals help their peers develop and enhance their academic success techniques in areas such as time management, studying, using evidence-based learning strategies, academic goal setting, and using campus resources.
Who are the skill-based peer tutors?
This is the phone number to the Lauterbur RA office.
What is (631)-632-9257?
According to the World Meteorological Organization’s latest State of the Global Climate publication, these are the 11 hottest consecutive years on record.
What are the years 2015–2025?
True or False: All plastic products labeled with this symbol (♻) are always recyclable.
False, this symbol (♻) only identifies the type of plastic used to manufacture the product, but does not indicate whether the plastic is recyclable. Your local recycling facility might not necessarily be capable of recycling that specific type of plastic.