(June 17, 2009) A summary of several green IT projects on campus, including work by Kristin Hanks, is showcased at GreenerComputing.com.
 
(June 16, 2009)  Kristin Hanks' work on reducing desktop power consumption with the School of Education may save over $500,000 and 15,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide per year for IU.
 
(June 15, 2009) Congratulations to Feixing Tuang and Yujia Zhao on advancing to the worldwide finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2009 design competition with their design of a community-based household items reuse platform. They will compete as one of the six finalists in Cairo, Egypt.
 
(June 9, 2009) Rajasee Rege, Feixing Tuang, Jenny Allen, Sakshi Gupta, and Vince Diaz presented their design "GoGrocery: Community-based transportation to support a sustainable lifestyle" in the UPA 2009 International Conference student design competition in Portland, OR
 
(May 7, 2009)  An electronic waste event, organized by Kristin Hanks and Laura Knudsen diverted 830,000 pounds of e-waste from our landfills.  330 surveys taken at the event will be analyzed for future publication. 
 
(April 17, 2009) James Pierce's work on designing "attention-seeking objects" is featured in NewScientist.
 
(April 6, 2009) Eli Blevis joined experts from Motorola Research, Carnegie Mellon University, U of Washington and UC Irvine to lead a workshop titled "Defining the Role of Human-Computer Interaction in the Challenges of Sustainability"
 
(April 6, 2009) Rajasee Rege presented her paper "Designing Interactive Information Access Technologies for Small Scale Rural Indian Farmers." in the CHI2009 student research competition.
 
(April 6, 2009) Will Odom, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman, and Eli Blevis presented their paper on "Understanding Why We Preserve Some Things and Discard Others in the Context of Interaction Design"
 
(July 9, 2008) Congratulations to Dave Roedl and Will Odom on winning the first prize of Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2008 Interface Design Competition
 
(June 28, 2008) James Pierce and Dave Roedl's article "Changing Energy Use Through Design" was featured as cover story in the latest issue of ACM Interaction