Heather Caldwell, a student in MIU’s Sustainable Living department, has been a busy bee. Ever since taking the Tiny Houses course, Heather has had her sights set on creating a sustainable community for single mothers. “The month-long course covers a plethora of topics ranging from design and materials to building Tiny House Communities and off-grid living,” according to Heather. The first step in making her big Tiny House dream happen was to try it out with her own family.
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Flo Bannout, manager of the Sustainable Living department’s bike shop, worked with MIU Campus Security to schedule an abandoned bike pickup. With a team that consisted of Rich Dana, Flo and others they were able to pickup 53 bikes around the university’s campus! The baseline criteria for choosing the bikes was based on if they had completely rusted chains and 2 flat tires.
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A newly formed student club focused on the needs of veterans has been meeting twice a month and has been organizing community service projects.
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In October 2013, Ali Alrahahleh traveled from Amman, Jordan where he worked as a Software Engineer for Yahoo! to enroll in our Computer Professionals Masters program. Not long after arriving at MIU, Ali met fellow classmate Nazanin Delam, a software engineer from Iran, and they soon fell in love. Nine months later, having earned a 4.0 GPA, Ali was hired to do his curricular practical training internship at Walmart Labs, Co. in Sunnyvale, California as a Senior Software Engineer. Nazanin found an internship nearby, as a Software Engineer at Upland...
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Sustainable Living students from MIU visited Iowa City’s Englert Theatre to listen to a talk given by Vandana Shiva, entitled Eco-Feminism: Women in Defense of the Earth. Vandana is the University of Iowa’s chosen Distinguished Lecturer of 2015. As a world-renowned environmental advocate and activist, Vandana Shiva presented an incredibly coherent and moving speech about the effects of large corporations are destroying our natural ecological systems. The message she conveyed was about how a more loving, nurturing and holistic approach toward the environment is needed for it’s survival.
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As a graduate of the Maharishi Vedic Science program, there’s one question I’ve been asked more often than any other about my choice of study: What is the point of majoring in Maharishi Vedic Science?
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David Lynch MA in Film student Agnes Baginska grew up in Poland and was introduced to the theatre at an early age by her grandmother. She participated in monologue competitions and directed her first play in high school.
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Maharishi International University has been announced as a recipient of the Silver Level Student Actions Awards for the 2014 Fall Semester. The award honors undergraduate schools for student demonstrated leadership, momentum and impact of green, caring and healthy actions. Silver Level schools have student leaders committed to student and group activation across campus through focused challenges and delivering on impact targets.
The Student Actions Awards celebrate student leadership, student activation, student initiatives and overall impact. The awards are based on a methodology that celebrates progress, momentum, and impact for...
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Students and faculty members from the Sustainable Living department at Maharishi International University visited Des Moines, Iowa’s capital, on February 17th for the annual Environmental Lobby Day/REAP Day at the Capitol.
With speakers such as Senator Dvorsky (D- Johnson), Senator Johnson (R-Osceola), Margo Underwood (Chair; Iowa Natural Resources Commission), Mark Ackelson (President Emeritus; Iowa natural Heritage Foundation) and Ralph Rosenberg (Executive Director; Iowa Environmental Council), the students were able to get a strong sense of how legislators and lobbyists feel about current environmental issues,...
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Enlightened Leadership International (ELI) hosted two summits in January. The first summit took place at MIU and combined the dynamic interactive structure of past ELI summits with that of the Forest Academy block for a two-week leadership experience. A total of 45 students and administrators connected with other next generation leaders around the world.
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