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New building to reduce carbon footprint BY JADE MORGANFIELD STAFF WRITER
A new building expected to open in spring 2021 will allow students to have access to state-of-the-art technology. It will also have sustainable features to help reduce the University’s carbon footprint. The building is part of the College of Engineering’s Campus Instructional Facility Project. It will be located on the southeast corner of Springfield Avenue and Wright Street in Urbana. The project’s sustainability components, such as a geothermal energy system, will regulate and conserve energy usage and temperature. It will also include smart glass technology with the ability to control incoming light. The Student Sustainability Committee donated $250,000 to the cause. Bill Bell, executive director of marketing and communications for Engineering, said incorporating sustainability into the new construction is important. “That’s really an exciting aspect to the project,” Bell said. “Sustainability has been important both from student interest and in terms of what the leadership wants to be sure that we are doing with our new facilities.” Funding this building is expected to cost $75 million. The University is financing this new development through a publicprivate partnership, which allows the University to bor-
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Talbot Laboratory is getting renovations to create more instructional space and include sustainable technology. The construction is expected to be completed by 2021.
row bonds from an investor while being exempt from taxes. The Illinois Finance Authority acts as an intermediary when it comes to
helping nonprofit organizations find investors to fund their projects. After an investor is found, the Illinois Finance Authority will issue the bonds to the bor-
rower. However, the borrower is responsible for paying back his or her debt to the investors. Chris Meister, executive director of the Illi-
New organization encourages sustainability in Greek housing BY OLIVIA WELSHANS STAFF WRITER
From red Solo cups to Styrofoam trays, waste in Greek housing is piling up, prompting students to take action. A new campus organization aims to reduce waste and promote sustainability in Greek housing. Julia Irle, junior in LAS; Ezra Wallon, junior in Engineering; and Katherine Florence, junior in
AHS, formed Green Greeks to try and change people’s thinking when it comes to sustainability. Unlike University Housing, which has sustainability programs and people to oversee them, Greek housing has no one encouraging sustainable practices. Co-founders Irle and Florence started to notice Greek housing’s sustainability problems when liv-
ing in the house of their sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta. Some of the major problems they noticed were heavy disposable plate and utensil use, lights being left on and high water usage. Irle at first wanted to create a sustainability chair in her sorority, but after finding that was not possible, she and Florence started researching Greek life sus-
tainability programs at other universities. After consulting with other programs across the country, Irle and Florence created Green Greeks. Green Greeks is part Registered Student Organization and part liaison to the Certified Green Chapter Program within the Institute for Sustainability, SEE GREEN GREEKS | 3A
nois Finance Authorit y, ex pla i ned t he Illinois Finance Authority’s purpose. “The authority is established to deliver the ser-
vice of issuing federally tax exempt … bonds in a predictable, professional, transparent manner,” Meister said. SEE DESIGN | 3A
Black hole image marks beginning of new technological era Earth and has a mass that is 6.5 billion times larger than the sun. George Wong, graduate student in Engineering and member of Gammie’s research team, said the scientific community already had an idea of what black holes looked like before they obtained that image, but it is still amazing because people finally have direct visual proof the theories coincide with reality. Ga mmie’s resea rch team produced computer simulations of the galaxy M87 and compared the simulations with data. They found the black hole is spinning, and the spin axis of the black hole is pointed away from earth. “M87 has a powerful, relativistic jet of gas that emerges from close to the black hole. We were able to deduce that the jet is powered by braking of the black hole spin,” Gammie said. “The black hole acts like a giant flywheel with magnetic fields braking the flywheel and trans-
BY ZIHAN WANG STAFF WRITER
With the help of University researchers, the firstever image of a black hole was published on April 10. Professor in Engineering Charles Gammie and his research team assisted with interpreting the photo. The team, which he coled, was involved in the theory working group, Gammie said in an email. The black hole image is important because it is consistent with models based on Einstein’s theory of gravity and general relativity, Gammie said. This time, a completely new and distinct method from what has been used before was used to acquire the image. “It’s just cool to see a black hole,” Gammie said. The image of the black hole was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope Project, an international collaboration aiming to directly observe the environment of a black hole. According to EHT’s website, the black hole in the image resides 55 million light-years from
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Ezra Wallon (left), junior in Engineering, and Katherine Florence (right), junior in AHS, speak about their organization Green Greeks. The aim of the organization is to help fraternities and sororities be more eco-friendly. DAILYILLINI, DAILYILLINISPORTS
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