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2025

¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Featured in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition
Published: November 3, 2025.
Sustainability-related policies, practices, and programs led ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ to be included in  The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition [MORE

2024

Princeton Review’s Green Colleges 2025 Edition Includes ¹ú²úÂé¶¹
Published: October 26, 2024.
¹ú²úÂé¶¹ has been named one of the most environmentally responsible and sustainability - committed colleges in the nation by the Princeton Review. [MORE

¹ú²úÂé¶¹ 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 ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ in Romeoville.  [MORE

2023

International Research Project Offers an Update in Symposium
Published: August 28, 2023.
Students from ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ and the Universidad de La Salle in Colombia, facilitated a symposium August 18 at ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ in Romeoville as an update [MORE

¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Earns Tree Campus Higher Education Recognition
Published: February 21, 2023.
The Arbor Day Foundation continues to recognize ¹ú²úÂé¶¹’s Romeoville campus as a Tree Campus Higher Education honoree . For 13 years, the university [MORE

¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Earns Tree Campus Higher Education Recognition
Published: February 20, 2023.
The Arbor Day Foundation continues to recognize ¹ú²úÂé¶¹’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 ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Undergraduate Commencement Ceremonies on [MORE

Kiwibot Provides ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Food Delivery Robots in Partnership with Sodexo
Published: November 4, 2022.
Kiwibot , a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, arrived this Fall at ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ to ensure an affordable on-campus food delivery service for students. [MORE

Microbial Research Brings Colombian Students to ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Soil
Published: July 25, 2022.
Eight students from ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ 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 ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Campus
Published: November 12, 2021.
¹ú²úÂé¶¹ 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 ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ students of biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics and others spent their summer conducting [MORE

Food for All for Healthier Communities Initiative Selects ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Student Project Idea
Published: May 11, 2021.
¹ú²úÂé¶¹ 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 ¹ú²úÂé¶¹
Published: April 27, 2021.
¹ú²úÂé¶¹ 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.
¹ú²úÂé¶¹ started the month of February more efficiently as a solar array began operating on the ¹ú²úÂé¶¹ Romeoville campus. The solar power [MORE

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