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Photo courtesy of Emily Bollinger, WGLT. Two Metcalf students and their teacher stand in front of their finished tiny home project.

Metcalf School sixth-graders design, build, and donate a tiny house to homeless shelter village in Bloomington

Metcalf School sixth-graders designed and built a tiny house in their makerspace class that Home Sweet Home Ministries (HSHM) will put in its new shelter village.

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Camp site: College of Arts and Sciences units welcome youth campers to explore careers in science

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2025-26 Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS) award winners announced

Dr Ashley Waring-Sparks

Dr. Ashley Waring-Sparks named interim director of CeMaST

Jul23

CSPA Virtual Summer Discussion

7/23/25 at 12:00 PMZoom Meeting

Sep5

Graduate School Series: Grad School Game Plan

9/5/25 at 3:00 PM

Oct7

Fall Internship and Career Fair

10/7/25 at 2:00 PMBone Student Center

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