Southern Illinois University Carbondale has earned a five-year renewal of its Level II Arboretum Accreditation from the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has earned a five-year renewal of its Level II Arboretum Accreditation from the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum.
LOWELL Equipped with shovels, UMass Lowell Chancellor Julie Chen and members of the university and Lowell community tossed the final piles of soil next to a young katsura tree in front of Coburn Hall Wednesday morning.
The university’s new Tree Replacement Policy requires campus planners to replace on-campus trees that are removed during construction. This policy comes after the fall of the Bicentennial Oak in November 2022, a tree that predated the university’s founding. Severe weather during a March 2023 storm also left 21 trees dead and an additional 12 damaged.