The School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability participates in outreach activities to engage a range of audiences from students at the K-12 level, to residents of surrounding Iowa area communities, and state legislators.
Each year we host public events to educate and raise awareness around issues of earth and environmental science and sustainability.
During Earth Science Week in October, you can find interactive demonstrations and information in displays managed by students and faculty on the Cleary Walkway in front of Trowbridge Hall.
In April, we host our annual Earth Day event where we open up our doors and welcome the public to explore the Earth and its history through an augmented reality sand table, EmRiver stream table, interactive fossil and mineral displays, and groundwater models. You can even explore our neighboring planets with a virtual rover tour of Mars!
Public engagement in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa’s core mission extends beyond the classrooms, laboratories, studios, and libraries where we educate students, conduct our research, and create new artistic work. Equally important is our engagement with communities throughout Iowa, across the nation, and around the world.
Our faculty, students, and staff work to solve problems, imagine new approaches to challenges, and improve quality of life, often through service-learning courses in which students earn academic credit.
It’s a virtuous circle: When UI expertise is harnessed to help a community or region improve the lives of its residents, the experience adds unique educational value to students’ academic journeys, and advances the research and creative production of our faculty. In turn, that new knowledge empowers us to help more communities, solve more problems, and improve more lives.
The UI is not just the University of Iowa, we're the University for Iowa—and throughout the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we are proud to serve.