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Latino achievements celebrated Friday The IU Latino Faculty Staff Council will present their End of the Year Reception and Award Ceremony today at the Oliver Winery. The event’s goal is to recognize undergraduate and graduate students’
and faculty’s contributions to a positive environment on campus contributing to retention of Latinos at IU, and emphasize academic and professional achievements. The ceremony will begin at 6 p.m.
PHOTOS BY KATELYN ROWE | IDS
Sophomore and environmental management major Ellie Symes is starting a beekeeping program on IU’s campus at the Hilltop Garden. Bee populations worlwide have been declining in recent years.
Queen of the hive Sophomore brings beekeeping to campus with two full hives arriving in May BY ANNA HYZY akhyzy@indiana.edu @annakhyzy
The small, blonde sophomore leveled the foundation for her beehives, moving dirt from higher ground to lower ground until it was even. A wooden box sat on top of landscaping paper. She turned it over and over, telling her mother she was measuring. Her mother, an engineer, joked about her daughter’s unscientific measuring technique. Under a pine tree in a corner of the Hilltop Garden that faces an open field, she shoveled gravel from the IU physical plant onto the paper and began building two small towers, stacking two wooden boxes on top of a cinder block base. She stood back from her work. “We’re thinking of enlisting some artists. Just some art students to paint them up,” she said. In conjunction with Spring Into Gardening, an event at the Hilltop Garden that was a part of this year’s SustainIU week, sophomore envi-
ronmental management major Ellie Symes built the physical structure of her long-awaited beehives. “It’s exciting, I feel like I’m known as the bee girl on campus,” she said. Symes fell in love with beekeeping after a summer internship she found by typing “environmental volunteering” into Google, and has worked since September to bring it to campus. Her hives will support IU’s first beekeeping program for students. Symes said she sees beekeeping as a necessary pursuit and a way to educate people around her about the importance of bees, especially given the recent decline in worldwide bee populations. “I learn something every time I talk to her about these things,” said her father, Greg Symes. Ellie Symes is a member of GardenCorp, a program through the IU Office of Sustainability that requires students to spend four to six hours a week at the campus garden and SEE BEES, PAGE 3
“There’s nothing better than sticking your finger in the hive and tasting the fresh honey.” Ellie Symes, sophomore
Retired IU biology professor George Hegeman checks on his hive at the Hilltop Garden. While different bees have occupied the hive, the structure has been there since the 1970s. Hegeman is looking at one of ten frames in the hive to see signs of the queen and other bees doing their jobs.
Students awarded sustainability grants FROM IDS REPORTS
Awards of up to $10,000 are available for the 2014-15 academic year for graduate students interested in developing research programs related to sustainability, according to an IU press release. Applications are due by May 5. Any IU graduate student in a research or professional program can apply. “This seed funding will open up new doors for graduate student innovation as
Indiana University seeks to become an international leader in sustainability research,” Director of Sustainability Bill Brown said in the release. The Sustainability Research Development Grant program is an outgrowth of a pilot initiative developed in 2008, which was a collaboration of the IU Task Force on Sustainability and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Funds are applicable for graduate student fellowships
as well as research. Individuals and teams of graduate students may apply, and if a team wins, the students will share the funds. Michael Hamburger, professor of geological sciences and co-chair of the Campus Sustainability Advisory Board, said in the release that this collaboration of the academic departments and Office of Sustainability will hopefully bring new, innovative research to the campus. “This grant program offers a unique opportunity
for IU’s graduate students to develop innovative research programs that address fundamental issues of humanenvironment interaction,” Hamburger said. “This unusual collaboration between the Office of Sustainability and three academic units will help catalyze new, interdisciplinary research efforts on the IU-Bloomington campus that might not otherwise be possible.” Dani Castonzo
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