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  • From Trash to Dirt: What To Do With Your Leftover Food

    April 26, 2024 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The University of Georgia is working to make composting more accessible by offering various dropoff locations for compostable materials, such as the UGArden community farm. The university also offers UGA Campus Compost, which is a student-run program that uses e-bikes to collect compost bins around campus, making it easier for students to participate in in reducing their waste.

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  • B-CU, church food distribution program benefits students and the community

    April 25, 2024 |

    Daytona Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Daytona Beach, Florida

    The mobile food distribution program by the Mind of Christ Ministries and Bethune-Cookman University has been feeding families since 2013. The program addresses local food insecurity while also providing university students with a meaningful way to give back to the community and earn required volunteer hours. The program estimates it reaches more than 200,000 people each year.

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  • More public colleges admit high schoolers even before they've applied

    April 24, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    Some public universities are sending acceptance letters to students who meet certain academic criteria before they apply to college in an effort to fill college rosters in the face of declining high school populations. These “direct admissions programs proactively reach out to students to let them know what their next steps are if they want to attend college, eliminating the need for fees and complicated applications and helping make higher education more accessible.

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  • As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle

    April 15, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Borger, Texas

    Private landowners in Borger, Texas, are hiring certified burn managers to do prescribed burns on their land that remove excess vegetation and help prevent wildfires. The landowners are legally liable for any issues that may arise and front the initial cost, but they can be reimbursed by the Texas A&M Forest Service, which is working to encourage adoption of the practice.

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  • ULead Athens Supports Immigrant Students to Help Them Succeed And Much More

    April 13, 2024 |

    WUGA |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Through ULead Athens, Latino youth interested in pursuing higher education get access to mentorship, standardized test tutoring, college prep, and scholarship support. The organization also has a civic engagement initiative that focuses on voter registration and education within the Latino community. Since it was founded in 2014, ULead has helped roughly 98 percent of participants interested in attending college to get accepted.

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  • 'It's OK to ask for assistance': How UNC's elite athletes use mental health as an edge

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Psychology Program works with university sport teams in weekly sports psychology meetings, where student athletes can discuss their mental health concerns and learn ways to overcome them. The Program currently has three licensed mental health clinicians on staff and hopes to hire more.

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  • How UNC Charlotte's student support organizations help international students with off-campus housing challenges

    March 19, 2024 |

    Niner Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    The Triveni Indian Student Association helps international students secure housing off-campus by bridging the gap and representing the students with landlords in-person, before the international students arrive for school year. During the fall semester, the Triveni Indian Student Association helped about 600 new international students, and about 100 new students during the spring semester.

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  • “Undocuprofessionals”

    March 01, 2024 |

    DÍG en Español |

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    Response Location: United States

    “Undocuprofessionals” es un programa gratuito de tutoría en línea que conecta aprendices indocumentados con mentores también indocumentados que tienen carreras profesionales. El programa empezó en 2020, y han connectado casi 800 mentores y aprendices juntos en todo el país, ayudando los adultos jóvenes indocumentados con un variedad de recursos profesionales.

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  • A roof overhead can make or break a college degree for young Coloradans

    February 19, 2024 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    LuMin, a Lutheran ministry organization, provides subsidized rooms to college students struggling with housing insecurity. Though the program can only accommodate a fraction of applicants, students who have received housing say it has enabled them to focus on their studies rather than on making ends meet.

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  • Michigan program recycles pacemakers to save lives overseas

    February 08, 2024 |

    New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Project My Heart Your Heart recycles pacemakers from deceased cardiovascular patients to give them to people overseas living in poor countries where pacemakers are historically hard to access and afford. The My Heart Your Heart lab has received around 50,000 pacemakers and has reconditioned and implanted about 500 in heart patients in several countries.

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