Among the three proposals awarded is a music project dealing with the study of wolves in a national park located on an island in Lake Superior and a new media project spotlighting the environmental cost of online activity.

An app that would provide detailed information about food at the point of sale took top honors in the competition, which challenged students to imagine ways to help people make better choices about their own health.

On Friday, an OpenGrounds forum in the Rotunda brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines to explore how representations of the environment influence ideas and attitudes toward conservation – especially through the work of Ansel Adams and landscape photographers of the New West.

OpenGrounds and Hearst Business Media join forces to help face the complexities of health care in the U.S. with the launch of a survey and a University-wide competition for students’ innovative proposals.