
This experience was really emotionally intense (but) it was really fulfilling and powerful. It definitely confirmed that that's something that l need to have in my life.

Helping recover that story felt urgent. The work was physically intense but meaningful.

While you never get used to how a latrine smells or sounds, a rustic lifestyle has its perks.

There are many things I learned while getting my liberal arts education that I wouldn’t have been able to experience if I went straight to pursuing an engineering degree in a university, and vice versa.

Everyone in our class knew what Puppies and Pancakes meant. It brought back memories and got them excited to be here together.

The College kind of portrays itself as having a lot of cultural diversity, and it’s not just advertising; it’s real ... I’ve found a very nice group of friends here.

This trip helped ground our academic work in the social world — it made it more interesting, and ultimately more effective.

Because of ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ, I had the confidence to explore new places. ... ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ made me more enthusiastic about getting out of my comfort zone and meeting new people.

I’m passionate about the idea of creating work that lives outside traditional gallery settings — art and design that people encounter in their everyday lives, often without even realizing it at first.
Our feeling was that if you are not connected to your place, you won’t take care of it. From this conversation emerged the idea of embracing our location and using it as a teaching and learning tool.

I went to ¹û¶³ÊÓÆµ because a wanted to be a well-rounded engineer. … I got confidence, really, in my own skills, in my own ability to learn and to lead.

Waterways in Iowa are stressed like never before, and the trusted repositories of environmental data are being eviscerated ... If we want to know what's going on, increasingly it's good if we can collect data ourselves.