Once slated to become a private golf club, the Griffy Woods Research and Teaching Preserve has become the center of IU’s Integrated Program in the Environment.
IPE, created last year, has greatly changed the way IU approaches research and instruction related to the environment, according to an IU release.
“If you were asked what a truly interdisciplinary, interdepartmental program looks like, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better example than the Integrated Program in the Environment,” IU Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said in the ?release.
IPE brings together more than 90 affiliated faculty members across 25 departments within five schools.
The preserve is home to IU’s first LEED certified buildings, according to the University.
In the 2013-14 school year, 387 students participated in research at the preserve or in the field lab.
Students participating in research were either research assistants to faculty or were enrolled in a field-based natural science course, according to the ?University.
Associate professor of biology Rich Phillips is now the preserve’s science director.
Sarah Mincey, a research associate at IU’s Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, will serve as ?associate director for IPE and administrative director of the preserve.
“I am very happy that the preserve will continue in very good hands with Jeff White as director of the IPE, Sarah Mincey as the associate director, Rich Phillips as the new scientific director and Michael Chitwood continuing as the preserve manager,” Keith Clay, former director of the preserve, said in the release.
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