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2025

º£½ÇÉçÇø Featured in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition
Published: November 3, 2025.
Sustainability-related policies, practices, and programs led º£½ÇÉçÇø to be included in  The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition [MORE

2024

Princeton Review’s Green Colleges 2025 Edition Includes º£½ÇÉçÇø
Published: October 26, 2024.
º£½ÇÉçÇø has been named one of the most environmentally responsible and sustainability - committed colleges in the nation by the Princeton Review. [MORE

º£½ÇÉçÇø Supplies Pembroke Heat their Homes
Published: April 15, 2024.
More than two tons of firewood was chopped and loaded onto a truck for delivery to Pembroke Township on April 5 at º£½ÇÉçÇø in Romeoville.  [MORE

2023

International Research Project Offers an Update in Symposium
Published: August 28, 2023.
Students from º£½ÇÉçÇø and the Universidad de La Salle in Colombia, facilitated a symposium August 18 at º£½ÇÉçÇø in Romeoville as an update [MORE

º£½ÇÉçÇø Earns Tree Campus Higher Education Recognition
Published: February 21, 2023.
The Arbor Day Foundation continues to recognize º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Romeoville campus as a Tree Campus Higher Education honoree . For 13 years, the university [MORE

º£½ÇÉçÇø Earns Tree Campus Higher Education Recognition
Published: February 20, 2023.
The Arbor Day Foundation continues to recognize º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Romeoville campus as a Tree Campus Higher Education honoree . For 13 years, the university [MORE

2022

Lasallian Speaker Urges Degree Recipients to Advocate for Social Justice
Published: December 18, 2022.
More than 430 undergraduate degree recipients gathered with loved ones on December 17 for the º£½ÇÉçÇø Undergraduate Commencement Ceremonies on [MORE

Kiwibot Provides º£½ÇÉçÇø Food Delivery Robots in Partnership with Sodexo
Published: November 4, 2022.
Kiwibot , a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, arrived this Fall at º£½ÇÉçÇø to ensure an affordable on-campus food delivery service for students. [MORE

Microbial Research Brings Colombian Students to º£½ÇÉçÇø Soil
Published: July 25, 2022.
Eight students from º£½ÇÉçÇø and Universidad De La Salle in Bogota, Colombia participated in a weeklong experience, Microbial Community Analysis [MORE

2021

Land Acknowledgement Ceremony Honors Indigenous History of º£½ÇÉçÇø Campus
Published: November 12, 2021.
º£½ÇÉçÇø students, faculty, and staff joined together with Midwest SOARRING Foundation and other community members on November 10 to officially [MORE

Summer STEM Learning Continues with Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
Published: August 23, 2021.
Seventeen º£½ÇÉçÇø students of biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics and others spent their summer conducting [MORE

Food for All for Healthier Communities Initiative Selects º£½ÇÉçÇø Student Project Idea
Published: May 11, 2021.
º£½ÇÉçÇø sophomore Katie Ewing's submission for the garden design and install project at the National Hook-Up For Black Women Joliet Chapter, located [MORE

New Solar Array Powers º£½ÇÉçÇø
Published: April 27, 2021.
º£½ÇÉçÇø officially dedicated its new 1-Megawatt solar array on April 27 at its Romeoville Campus. The 2,612 panels across five acres of land [MORE

Biodiesel Processing Project Proposal Wins 2021 Come Clean Go Green Competition
Published: April 26, 2021.
“Food to Fuel: Biodiesel Processing for Campus and Community Use” project idea by students Kristen Knych ’21, Sol llanes ’23, Sebastian Mietus ’21, and [MORE

Solar Array Powers Romeoville Campus
Published: February 11, 2021.
º£½ÇÉçÇø started the month of February more efficiently as a solar array began operating on the º£½ÇÉçÇø Romeoville campus. The solar power [MORE

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