School of Art and Design Re-Fashioned Fashion Show

The annual School of Art and Design fashion show is back! Re-Fashioned will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Siebel Center. Admission is free. Students from the Studio Arts Fashion Concentration will be presenting over 100 one-of-a-kind ensembles. Wearable works of art walk the runway, combining sustainability and creativity in a fun event for the whole family. 

The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) met on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.. Following was the agenda for the meeting:

• Introduction – Morgan White (5 minutes)
• Old Business
  • F&S TDM Status Update – Stacey DeLorenzo and Sarthak Prasad (25 minutes)
  • Lincoln Ave Corridor Study (North of Florida Ave) – CCRPC (15 minutes)
  • Bike Share Updates– Sarthak Prasad (5 minutes)
• New Business
  • EV infrastructure research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • E-bike research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • Air Travel Emissions research – Karina Jang (10 minutes)
  • 2025 Transportation Survey – Sepideh Azizi (10 minutes)
• Community Updates – (5 minutes) 

Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/f9vq8w52a4tjmu154ecuspfyfjqb9784.

The University Bicycle Ordinance was updated in spring 2025. This update includes information and rules for bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters on-campus. Download the updated document here: https://go.illinois.edu/BikeOrdinance

At our last Lights Out event of the semester, 2711 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $412.47 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.045 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 397 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact and thank you all for a great semester!

Please follow the document attached to read about the 2025 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the south quad. 

The iCAP Education Team met on Monday, May 5th from 4-5 pm via Teams. First we had a discussion recapping the Green Globes and iCAP Reception event where student input on the 2025 iCAP objectives was collected. Then we discussed the next steps towards the sustainability Gen-Ed requirement and the sustainability literacy assessment. We closed by sharing iSEE partnered internship opportunities. The meeting minutes are attached. 

RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the April 2025 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 2,377 Megawatt hours.

The April 2025 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

Students from the Dept of Landscape Architecture, Dept of Civil Engineering, and faculty advisors have submitted to the 2025 EPA Rainworks Challenge. 

At this past Illini Lights Out event,  2859 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $434.98 in energy costs. This also prevented 4.3 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 489 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a great impact!

Agenda

• Michael's updates
  • Recommendation page: added a Files column which shows any files associated with each Recommendation Update (e.g. ECONS004 Green Labs Coordinator)
  • SSC Projects:
    • Added column click sorting to SSC Projects table
    • Added ability to add/edit description to SSC Projects listing page
  • Metrics fixes:
    • Metric: Bicycle Registration in Project 529 system: Karina Jang had tried to restore a past Metric revision, which didn't work well and clobbered a few records. We reviewed the data and restored the broken/missing records. I have disabled restoring revisions for now. iCAP Admins and Moderators can view revisions, but cannot restore them. While it may typically work for basic content like text fields, it doesn't seem to work well for connected content like tracking records.
    • Metric: Total Purchased Clean Power: Somehow 2 empty records were created when Zach Bromberg updated this metric. I have made the Value and Date fields required, which should help avoid that in the future.
  • Showing Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages:
    • Initial version of how this could work available on live site (only visible when logged in):
      • Added Associated Recommendation(s) section in main column
      • List each associated recommendation w/its current status
      • Under each recommendation, show table of its related recommendation updates
    • You can find Project pages with associated Recommendations by visiting a Recommendation (All Recommendations) and clicking on its associated Projects.
    • Example pages:
      • Clean Power Agreements Off-Campus - only 2 recommendations; looks pretty good
      • Sustainability Council - somewhat long page
      • Zero Waste iCAP Team - pretty long page
      • iCAP Working Group (iWG) - really long page!
    • Thoughts? For projects with a lot of recommendation updates, it gets a bit busy...
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• Recommendations on project pages
  • Will have a side channel meeting to discuss how best to cross reference iCAP Projects and Recommendations
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics
  • Need better way to display metrics with large numbers of tracking records
    • Michael will return to investigating switching charting systems
  • Need to be able to combine multiple metrics on a single graph
    • Michael had previously started work on this; can resurrect and continue it
    • Will have a side channel meeting to discuss needs in more depth

TODOs

• Various follow-up side channel meetings between monthly meetings.

Bicycle census 2025 is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2023 from 11 - 12 pm. We have worked with F&S FIR department to develop the survey collection platform using ArcGIS Field Maps. See the Bike Census 2025: Volunteer Instruction Guide for more information.

Please see attached.

Please see attached the map blocks for Bike Census 2023.

Attached is the Tree Campus Advisory Committee Charge letter for 2025.

We heard from Karina Jang about her research on air travel admissions, reviewed the data on the Transportation Survey, and talked about working for a SSC grant to install ebike chargers on campus. For a more detailed breakdown, the minutes are attached!

Agenda

• Michael's updates
  • Archived projects:
    • Added link to Archived Projects on Projects page
    • Hid archived projects from Theme page hierarchical listings
    • Left archived projects in Project Family sidebar section, for now - may revisit that decision in the future
  • Removed Project Status from hierarchical listing on theme pages and full project hierarchy listing
  • Expand/Collapse buttons added to Project Updates listings. See examples:
    • All Project Updates
    • Project Updates search results
    • Project Updates for collection: Monarch Butterfly projects
    • Projects Updates for Sustainability iCAP Portal
    • Projects Updates for key objective: 2.1 Energy Planning Document
    • Projects Updates for theme: Education
    • Projects Updates for place: Campus Instructional Facility
  • SSC Project embed code is working on SSC site!
  • Resolved an issue with some information connected to Projects (locations, funding info) and Metrics (targets, tracking) losing their connections to those projects.
    • Information still in database, so I was able to restore connections
    • It took some careful and tedious effort to track this down and restore the connections.
• Google Analytics numbers drop
  • Steeper than others have experienced
  • Probably some combination of less traffic and old analytics possibly not excluding bots/crawlers as effectively
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• Morgan went through full list of projects to find ones to archive
  • Need to have a larger conversation about what archiving does at some point
• Morgan's intern Zach is doing a couple things:
  • Filling in recent years of campus water data
  • Looking for duplicate metrics
  • Will mark duplicate metrics as duplicate, then work with Michael on deleting them
• Linking SSC Projects to iCAP Portal projects
  • Quinn and Helen working on making sure all connections between SSC Projects and iCAP Portal projects are included
  • What to do about SSC Projects without an existing iCAP Portal project?
  • Quinn: 70-80% of SSC Projects have a direct or indirect connection to an iCAP Portal project; a few are really hard to find a connection
  • Morgan: every SSC Project should be connected to an iCAP Portal project. Quinn will keep working on connections, then this summer we can figure out what to do about the outliers
  • Would be helpful to add column sorting to SSC Projects table
  • SSC Projects listing goes back to 2008; aren't there projects from earlier than 2008?
    • That's all Helen had access to in SSC's master spreadsheet
    • Didn't include cancelled projects
    • Morgan will look for info about projects before 2008
    • Sheri may also have info about those projects
    • Some info about older SSC projects may be available in Project Updates (e.g. Projects Updates for Wind Turbine Generator(s) on South Farms)
• Recommendations:
  • Morgan will have a student work on adding Recommendations
  • Once they're complete, we should remove the manually maintained recommendation links in Projects
  • Next step: show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages; Michael will work on a draft version to share
• Going through project hierarchy: adding/updating information to descriptions for Header projects
• Google Analytics numbers drop
• Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics

TODOs

• ✅ SSC Projects:
  • ✅ Add column click sorting to SSC Projects table
  • ✅ Add ability to add/edit description to SSC Projects listing page
• ✅ Show Recommendations & Recommendation Updates on Project pages
• Investigate Google Analytics for April 3 - large spike in visits/users
• Investigate how to hide Project Status from certain projects which aren't actually projects - they're meant to act as parents for other projects (remaining from last meeting)
  • e.g. add a "Header" Project Status which hides the status

Check out  SmartWay — a program that supports clean air, energy efficiency, and a stronger, more sustainable supply chain.

This Earth Day, and every day, look for the SmartWay logo on trucks moving goods the fuel-efficient way.

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Join the celebration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, by biking around campus, grabbing a free set of lights, or registering your bicycle!
As part of the university’s Earth Month events, the first-ever Bike for Earth Day will feature three welcoming centers open from 3 to 7 p.m. at:

• Alma Mater Plaza 
• Hallene Gateway (intersection of Illinois Street and Lincoln Avenue)
• Activities & Recreation Center (east side driveway)

      🎉 Bike Light Giveaway included! 🎉

Check out the above link for more details

March 2025 photos of the Florida Orchard Prairie have been added to the box folder.